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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

idverify.irs.gov

Identity and Tax Return Verification Service | Internal Revenue Service

Page Load Speed

992 ms in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

776 ms

Page Rendered

172 ms

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About Website

Visit idverify.irs.gov now to see the best up-to-date Idverify Irs content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about idverify.irs.gov

Use the identity verification (ID Verify) service if you received an IRS 5071C letter, 5747C letter or 5447C letter.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Idverify.irs.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 948 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

idverify.irs.gov performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,320 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.191

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

idverify

44 ms

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22 ms

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90 ms

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66 ms

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29 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Idverify.irs.gov, 9% (4 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (207 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 604.9 kB (64%)

Content Size

945.9 kB

After Optimization

341.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Idverify.irs.gov main page is 945.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 502.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 125.7 kB

  • Original 151.1 kB
  • After minification 126.9 kB
  • After compression 25.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 24.2 kB, which is 16% 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 125.7 kB or 83% 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, Idverify 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

-53%

Potential reduce by 267.2 kB

  • Original 502.6 kB
  • After minification 502.0 kB
  • After compression 235.5 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 267.2 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 207.8 kB

  • Original 286.1 kB
  • After minification 286.0 kB
  • After compression 78.3 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. Idverify.irs.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 207.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (67%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Idverify 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 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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44 ms

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22 ms

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39 ms

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35 ms

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Accessibility Review

idverify.irs.gov accessibility score

84

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 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

idverify.irs.gov 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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

idverify.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 Idverify.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 Idverify.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

idverify.irs.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Idverify 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: