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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

1040now.com

1040Now :: Free Online Tax Preparation & Electronic Filing

Page Load Speed

803 ms in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

443 ms

Page Rendered

184 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed 1040now.com page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 627 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

1040now.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1040now.com

176 ms

styles-ez.css

87 ms

top-left.jpg

218 ms

secured.gif

181 ms

index_01.jpg

268 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original 1040now.com, 9% (2 requests) were made to Privacy-policy.truste.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (268 ms) belongs to the original domain 1040now.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

143.1 kB

After Optimization

129.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 1040now.com main page is 143.1 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 128.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 11.6 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.7 kB, which is 23% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 8.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 128.9 kB
  • After minification 126.1 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. 1040Now images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 2.6 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 544 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. 1040now.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 1040Now. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

1040now.com

1040now.com

176 ms

styles-ez.css

styles-ez.css

87 ms

top-left.jpg

top-left.jpg

218 ms

secured.gif

secured.gif

181 ms

index_01.jpg

index_01.jpg

268 ms

index_02.jpg

index_02.jpg

130 ms

index_03.jpg

index_03.jpg

78 ms

index_04.jpg

index_04.jpg

141 ms

index_05.jpg

index_05.jpg

153 ms

button-no-free.jpg

button-no-free.jpg

179 ms

index_07.jpg

index_07.jpg

182 ms

block-tops.jpg

block-tops.jpg

197 ms

nav-online.jpg

nav-online.jpg

228 ms

nav-privacy.jpg

nav-privacy.jpg

230 ms

nav-federal.jpg

nav-federal.jpg

230 ms

nav-pricing.jpg

nav-pricing.jpg

231 ms

asc

asc

15 ms

nav-previous.jpg

nav-previous.jpg

235 ms

nav-user.jpg

nav-user.jpg

248 ms

efile-logo.jpg

efile-logo.jpg

263 ms

seal

seal

6 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

231 ms

table-bg.jpg

table-bg.jpg

226 ms

Accessibility Review

1040now.com accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

1040now.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

1040now.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 1040now.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that 1040now.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

1040now.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 1040Now. 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: