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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

freefile.irs.gov

IRS Free File: Do your taxes for free | Internal Revenue Service

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

182 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Free File IRS content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about freefile.irs.gov

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freefile.irs.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 131 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freefile.irs.gov performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,160 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.357

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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131 ms

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210 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Freefile.irs.gov, 21% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (461 ms) relates to the external source Irs.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 586.4 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

519.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freefile.irs.gov 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 481.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 137.5 kB

  • Original 167.4 kB
  • After minification 142.1 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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 25.4 kB, which is 15% 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 137.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 1.8 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, Free File IRS needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 70% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 131.6 kB

  • Original 481.9 kB
  • After minification 481.3 kB
  • After compression 350.3 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 131.6 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 313.1 kB

  • Original 450.9 kB
  • After minification 449.4 kB
  • After compression 137.8 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.irs.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 313.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (63%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free File IRS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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131 ms

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19 ms

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107 ms

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19 ms

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Accessibility Review

freefile.irs.gov accessibility score

78

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

freefile.irs.gov 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

freefile.irs.gov SEO score

98

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 Freefile.irs.gov 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.irs.gov 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.irs.gov

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