Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

makemytaxes.com

MakeMyTaxes - Tax Resolution service and IRS Tax Problem Solutions

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

521 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

396 ms

About Website

Welcome to makemytaxes.com homepage info - get ready to check Make My Taxes best content right away, or after learning these important things about makemytaxes.com

We specialize in Tax Debt Resolution and Debt relief. Our certified CPA and tax specialists can fix all IRS Tax problems for individuals and businesses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Makemytaxes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 521 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

makemytaxes.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

makemytaxes.com

521 ms

makemytaxes.com

931 ms

js

58 ms

asset.a55e56eb.css

700 ms

logo-dark.png

687 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Makemytaxes.com, 6% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Makemytaxes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.8 kB (5%)

Content Size

690.3 kB

After Optimization

654.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Makemytaxes.com main page is 690.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 278.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 42.6 kB
  • After minification 28.9 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 13.7 kB, which is 32% 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 35.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 177 B

  • Original 278.7 kB
  • After minification 278.5 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. Make My Taxes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 36 B

  • Original 258.6 kB
  • After minification 258.6 kB
  • After compression 258.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 112 B

  • Original 110.5 kB
  • After minification 110.5 kB
  • After compression 110.4 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. Makemytaxes.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (29%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Make My Taxes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

makemytaxes.com accessibility score

88

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

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

makemytaxes.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

makemytaxes.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Makemytaxes.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 Makemytaxes.com 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 Make My Taxes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: