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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

secure.etax.com

eTax.com® Tax Preparation Software, Federal Tax Filing, Efile Taxes, Income Tax Return

Page Load Speed

792 ms in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

393 ms

Page Rendered

309 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Secure.etax.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 702 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

secure.etax.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

secure.etax.com

90 ms

css

98 ms

font-awesome.min.css

75 ms

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

animate.min.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Secure.etax.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Sealserver.trustwave.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (222 ms) relates to the external source Sealserver.trustwave.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 294.4 kB (40%)

Content Size

738.2 kB

After Optimization

443.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Secure.etax.com main page is 738.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 324.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 19.8 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 3.6 kB, which is 18% 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 14.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 324.5 kB
  • After minification 316.5 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. Secure ETax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 77.4 kB

  • Original 165.3 kB
  • After minification 156.4 kB
  • After compression 87.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 77.4 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 194.3 kB

  • Original 228.6 kB
  • After minification 224.1 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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. Secure.etax.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 194.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (48%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Secure ETax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

secure.etax.com

secure.etax.com

90 ms

css

css

98 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

75 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

46 ms

etax.css

etax.css

50 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

50 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

146 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

51 ms

etax.js

etax.js

63 ms

home.css

home.css

50 ms

seal.js

seal.js

222 ms

Muscula7.js

Muscula7.js

42 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

8 ms

logo-183x48.png

logo-183x48.png

8 ms

woman-tablet-lg.jpg

woman-tablet-lg.jpg

53 ms

customer-support-man.jpg

customer-support-man.jpg

48 ms

customer-support-woman.jpg

customer-support-woman.jpg

49 ms

tablet-view.jpg

tablet-view.jpg

52 ms

woman-tablet-etax.jpg

woman-tablet-etax.jpg

51 ms

siteseal_sf_3_h_l_m.gif

siteseal_sf_3_h_l_m.gif

49 ms

irs_efile_provider.gif

irs_efile_provider.gif

51 ms

collect

collect

29 ms

seal_image.php

seal_image.php

9 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

3 ms

collect

collect

55 ms

Accessibility Review

secure.etax.com 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

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

secure.etax.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

SEO Factors

secure.etax.com SEO score

88

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

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 Secure.etax.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 Secure.etax.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

secure.etax.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Secure ETax. 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: