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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov

Home - Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) - Taxpayer Advocate Service

Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

About Website

Visit taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov now to see the best up-to-date Taxpayer Advocate Irs content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov

The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) is an independent organization within the IRS. We’re here to ensure that every taxpayer is treated fairly.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 10 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.18

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov

244 ms

gtm.js

261 ms

siteanalyze_6014161.js

1174 ms

gtranslate-style16.css

118 ms

style.min.css

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (96 requests) were addressed to the original Taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov, 3% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.1 MB (82%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

865.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov main page is 4.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 243.3 kB

  • Original 283.5 kB
  • After minification 201.1 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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 82.4 kB, which is 29% 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 243.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 3.8 MB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 614.6 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, Taxpayer Advocate Irs needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.8 MB or 86% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 141.7 kB
  • After minification 141.5 kB
  • After compression 139.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 73.2 kB
  • After minification 73.2 kB
  • After compression 70.6 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. Taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (45%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Taxpayer Advocate Irs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov accessibility score

81

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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.

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

taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov SEO score

84

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov 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 Taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov 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

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