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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

freetaxusa.com

FreeTaxUSA® FREE Tax Filing, Online Return Preparation, E-file Income Taxes

Page Load Speed

33.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

14 sec

Page Rendered

18.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freetaxusa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 32.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freetaxusa.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.freetaxusa.com

1228 ms

css

1105 ms

animate.min.css

313 ms

freetaxusa4.css

615 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

750 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Freetaxusa.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Freetaxusa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 466.5 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

829.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freetaxusa.com main page is 1.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 639.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 66.7 kB
  • After compression 14.3 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 55.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 639.5 kB
  • After minification 608.4 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. FREE TaxUSA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 197.7 kB

  • Original 372.3 kB
  • After minification 338.3 kB
  • After compression 174.6 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 197.7 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 181.8 kB

  • Original 213.6 kB
  • After minification 189.2 kB
  • After compression 31.8 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Freetaxusa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 181.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (40%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FREE TaxUSA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.freetaxusa.com

www.freetaxusa.com

1228 ms

css

css

1105 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

313 ms

freetaxusa4.css

freetaxusa4.css

615 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

750 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

3896 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

3815 ms

SmoothScroll.js

SmoothScroll.js

3813 ms

jarallax.js

jarallax.js

3814 ms

custom_menu.js

custom_menu.js

3814 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

3898 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

4312 ms

seal

seal

4244 ms

hamburger_w.png

hamburger_w.png

2683 ms

FreeTaxUSA_logo40_2.png

FreeTaxUSA_logo40_2.png

2684 ms

white_lock.png

white_lock.png

2683 ms

main_bg_sm.jpg

main_bg_sm.jpg

2684 ms

right_arrow.png

right_arrow.png

2682 ms

left_arrow.png

left_arrow.png

2682 ms

efile.png

efile.png

3223 ms

max_refund_green.png

max_refund_green.png

3222 ms

slide_free.png

slide_free.png

3221 ms

slide_news.png

slide_news.png

3221 ms

slide_secure.png

slide_secure.png

3221 ms

slide_returning.png

slide_returning.png

3126 ms

slide_support.png

slide_support.png

3897 ms

slide_accurate.png

slide_accurate.png

3897 ms

deluxe_audit_assist.png

deluxe_audit_assist.png

3895 ms

deluxe_live_chat.png

deluxe_live_chat.png

3896 ms

deluxe_amended_returns.png

deluxe_amended_returns.png

3895 ms

blue-fade.png

blue-fade.png

3896 ms

transfer.png

transfer.png

4818 ms

transfer-mobile.png

transfer-mobile.png

4817 ms

here_to_help.png

here_to_help.png

4817 ms

phone_hold_freetaxusa.jpg

phone_hold_freetaxusa.jpg

4817 ms

tablet_reviews_m.jpg

tablet_reviews_m.jpg

4818 ms

secure.png

secure.png

4816 ms

sprite2013.png

sprite2013.png

6270 ms

Hgo13k-tfSpn0qi1SFdUfaCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

Hgo13k-tfSpn0qi1SFdUfaCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

3550 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

3549 ms

Tipuh6LOjX++nZJK4Af+FsAGNAEuwCFBYsQEBjlmxRgYrWCGwEFlLsBRSWCGwgFkdsAYrXFhZsBQrAAAAAVTL21sAAA==

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443 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

1791 ms

2080 ms

collect

collect

1362 ms

collect

collect

2456 ms

reviews.json

reviews.json

1186 ms

559 ms

Accessibility Review

freetaxusa.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

freetaxusa.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

freetaxusa.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Freetaxusa.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Freetaxusa.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of FREE TaxUSA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: