Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

fed.acipayonline.com

ACI Payments: An Easy, Convenient, Secure Way to Pay Federal Taxes

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

231 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fed.acipayonline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 231 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fed.acipayonline.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fed.acipayonline.com

231 ms

bootstrap.min.css

50 ms

mui.min.css

46 ms

header.css

56 ms

nav.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Fed.acipayonline.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Seal.digicert.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (468 ms) belongs to the original domain Fed.acipayonline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 377.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

883.0 kB

After Optimization

505.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Fed.acipayonline.com main page is 883.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 364.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 148.4 kB

  • Original 163.9 kB
  • After minification 104.9 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 58.9 kB, which is 36% 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 148.4 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 364.3 kB
  • After minification 277.4 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. Obviously, Fed ACI Pay Online needs image optimization as it can save up to 86.8 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 200.0 kB
  • After minification 196.9 kB
  • After compression 147.2 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 52.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 89.4 kB

  • Original 154.9 kB
  • After minification 147.0 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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. Fed.acipayonline.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 89.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (56%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fed ACI Pay Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fed.acipayonline.com accessibility score

49

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

fed.acipayonline.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

fed.acipayonline.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 doesn't use 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 Fed.acipayonline.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 Fed.acipayonline.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Fed ACI Pay Online. 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: