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taxes.ca

TAXES.CA - Canadian Taxes and RRSP Portal

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

980 ms

Page Rendered

177 ms

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About Website

Visit taxes.ca now to see the best up-to-date TAXES content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about taxes.ca

TAXES.CA, the Canadian taxes and RRSP portal, contains information on taxation and financial planning topics and trends in Canada, such as ways to reduce personal income tax through RRSP investments. ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taxes.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

taxes.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

taxes.ca

80 ms

www.taxes.ca

251 ms

styles.css

81 ms

banner-home.gif

132 ms

banner-bar.gif

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Taxes.ca, 14% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 14% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (447 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 28.0 kB (44%)

Content Size

64.0 kB

After Optimization

36.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Taxes.ca main page is 64.0 kB. 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. Javascripts take 37.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 12.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 441 B

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 4.7 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. TAXES images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 37.5 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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 10.8 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 965 B

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. Taxes.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (52%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TAXES. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

taxes.ca

taxes.ca

80 ms

www.taxes.ca

www.taxes.ca

251 ms

styles.css

styles.css

81 ms

banner-home.gif

banner-home.gif

132 ms

banner-bar.gif

banner-bar.gif

55 ms

home-blog-img.gif

home-blog-img.gif

131 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

57 ms

home-directory-img.gif

home-directory-img.gif

77 ms

home-info-img.gif

home-info-img.gif

110 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

5 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

8 ms

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137 ms

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134 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

48 ms

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Logo_25wht.gif

43 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

vline-dot.gif

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100 ms

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100 ms

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98 ms

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97 ms

hline-dark.gif

hline-dark.gif

99 ms

home-green-bullet.gif

home-green-bullet.gif

99 ms

home-white-dot.gif

home-white-dot.gif

122 ms

ads

ads

447 ms

osd.js

osd.js

36 ms

ads

ads

291 ms

ads

ads

299 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

24 ms

abg.js

abg.js

45 ms

favicon

favicon

93 ms

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googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

91 ms

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57 ms

favicon

favicon

98 ms

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66 ms

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34 ms

favicon

favicon

29 ms

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22 ms

SEO Factors

taxes.ca SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Taxes.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Taxes.ca 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

taxes.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of TAXES. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: