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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 33

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

betweendeathandtaxes.com

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Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Betweendeathandtaxes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

betweendeathandtaxes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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176 ms

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4 ms

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Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Betweendeathandtaxes.com, 22% (28 requests) were made to S0.wp.com and 14% (18 requests) were made to Pixel.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) relates to the external source Betweendeathandtaxes.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 630.7 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

455.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Betweendeathandtaxes.com main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 814.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 351 B

  • Original 824 B
  • After minification 778 B
  • After compression 473 B

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 351 B or 43% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 189.1 kB
  • After minification 179.2 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. Between Death And Taxes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 574.7 kB

  • Original 814.0 kB
  • After minification 686.7 kB
  • After compression 239.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 574.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 81.8 kB
  • After minification 79.1 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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. Betweendeathandtaxes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.8 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (58%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Between Death And 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 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

betweendeathandtaxes.com accessibility score

33

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

Best Practices

betweendeathandtaxes.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

betweendeathandtaxes.com SEO score

73

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Betweendeathandtaxes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Betweendeathandtaxes.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

betweendeathandtaxes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Between Death And Taxes. 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: