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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

freefile.intuit.com

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Page Load Speed

19.2 sec in total

First Response

542 ms

Resources Loaded

18.5 sec

Page Rendered

150 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freefile.intuit.com page load time and found that the first response time was 542 ms and then it took 18.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freefile.intuit.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freefile.intuit.com

542 ms

resource-error-handler.js

462 ms

cg-mktg-page-stacked.css

119 ms

freefile-theme.css

279 ms

TurboDings.css

255 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Freefile.intuit.com, 15% (13 requests) were made to Lib.intuitcdn.net and 7% (6 requests) were made to Digitalasset.intuit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.2 sec) relates to the external source Accounts.intuit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

410.5 kB

After Optimization

320.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freefile.intuit.com main page is 410.5 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 194.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 26.8 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 2.9 kB, which is 11% 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 20.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 194.9 kB
  • After minification 194.9 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. Free File Intuit images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 172.5 kB
  • After minification 172.5 kB
  • After compression 112.0 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 60.5 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 16.2 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Freefile.intuit.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (72%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free File Intuit. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

freefile.intuit.com

freefile.intuit.com

542 ms

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462 ms

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119 ms

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279 ms

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255 ms

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156 ms

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119 ms

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474 ms

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255 ms

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282 ms

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299 ms

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287 ms

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307 ms

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436 ms

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335 ms

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521 ms

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682 ms

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114 ms

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604 ms

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700 ms

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574 ms

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640 ms

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677 ms

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794 ms

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116 ms

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959 ms

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106 ms

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17 ms

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6 ms

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6 ms

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12 ms

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90 ms

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13 ms

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20 ms

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11 ms

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Accessibility Review

freefile.intuit.com accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

freefile.intuit.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

freefile.intuit.com SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Freefile.intuit.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 Freefile.intuit.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

freefile.intuit.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Free File Intuit. 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: