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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

taxrefund.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

353 ms

Resources Loaded

589 ms

Page Rendered

91 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taxrefund.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 353 ms and then it took 680 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

taxrefund.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,810 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.168

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

taxrefund.co.uk

353 ms

jquery.min.js

27 ms

img_logo.gif

16 ms

portal.php

128 ms

rl.php

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Taxrefund.co.uk, 25% (2 requests) were made to Img.sedoparking.com and 25% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (353 ms) belongs to the original domain Taxrefund.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 51.0 kB (63%)

Content Size

80.8 kB

After Optimization

29.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Taxrefund.co.uk main page is 80.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 61.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 50.1 kB

  • Original 61.0 kB
  • After minification 58.8 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 50.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 522 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, Tax Refund needs image optimization as it can save up to 522 B or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 405 B

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tax Refund. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

taxrefund.co.uk

taxrefund.co.uk

353 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

27 ms

img_logo.gif

img_logo.gif

16 ms

portal.php

portal.php

128 ms

rl.php

rl.php

187 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

logo_blue.png

logo_blue.png

16 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

taxrefund.co.uk accessibility score

65

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

taxrefund.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

taxrefund.co.uk SEO score

88

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Taxrefund.co.uk 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 Taxrefund.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

taxrefund.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Tax Refund. 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: