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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

taxes.lifetips.com

Tax Help - Tax Preparation - Tax Refunds - Tax Forms - Taxes

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taxes.lifetips.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

taxes.lifetips.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

taxes.lifetips.com

9 ms

taxes.lifetips.com

4299 ms

css

75 ms

style-min-4.css

35 ms

jquery.min.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Taxes.lifetips.com, 11% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Taxes.lifetips.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 197.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

842.3 kB

After Optimization

644.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Taxes.lifetips.com main page is 842.3 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. Javascripts take 577.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 124.6 kB

  • Original 146.6 kB
  • After minification 112.0 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 34.5 kB, which is 24% 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 124.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 68.8 kB
  • After minification 64.5 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. Taxes Lifetips images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 577.6 kB
  • After minification 577.4 kB
  • After compression 546.1 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

-76%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 49.3 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. Taxes.lifetips.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (57%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Taxes Lifetips. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

taxes.lifetips.com accessibility score

81

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

taxes.lifetips.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

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

taxes.lifetips.com SEO score

92

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

    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 Taxes.lifetips.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 Taxes.lifetips.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 Taxes Lifetips. 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: