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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

balance-me.com

Checks and Balances - Home

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

936 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

83 ms

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About Website

Visit balance-me.com now to see the best up-to-date Balance Me content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about balance-me.com

Checks and Balances specializes in tax preparation & planning for individuals and businesses in the Chicagoland area since 1984.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balance-me.com page load time and found that the first response time was 936 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balance-me.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cbtaxstrategy.com

936 ms

minified.js

30 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

60 ms

polyfill.min.js

29 ms

thunderbolt-commons.7700cd07.bundle.min.js

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Balance-me.com, 29% (12 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com and 24% (10 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (936 ms) relates to the external source Cbtaxstrategy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 411.5 kB (50%)

Content Size

824.0 kB

After Optimization

412.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Balance-me.com main page is 824.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 488.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 385.9 kB

  • Original 488.2 kB
  • After minification 486.5 kB
  • After compression 102.4 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 385.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 54.8 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, Balance Me needs image optimization as it can save up to 22.0 kB or 29% 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 3.6 kB

  • Original 259.1 kB
  • After minification 259.1 kB
  • After compression 255.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (43%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balance Me. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.cbtaxstrategy.com

www.cbtaxstrategy.com

936 ms

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minified.js

30 ms

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60 ms

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29 ms

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108 ms

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123 ms

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107 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

110 ms

react.production.min.js

react.production.min.js

108 ms

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111 ms

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111 ms

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5 ms

Accessibility Review

balance-me.com accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

balance-me.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

balance-me.com 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

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 Balance-me.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 Balance-me.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Balance Me. 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: