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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

tax.nd.gov

Welcome to the North Dakota Office of State Tax Commissioner

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

217 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

908 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tax.nd.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 217 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tax.nd.gov performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,650 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tax.nd.gov

217 ms

www.tax.nd.gov

764 ms

all.css

112 ms

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253 ms

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427 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Tax.nd.gov, 14% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 763.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tax.nd.gov main page is 5.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 88.2 kB

  • Original 107.7 kB
  • After minification 99.9 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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. 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 88.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 639.2 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 4.9 MB

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, Tax Nd needs image optimization as it can save up to 639.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 64.9 kB
  • After minification 64.9 kB
  • After compression 31.5 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 33.4 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 63.0 kB
  • After minification 62.8 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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. Tax.nd.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (48%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tax Nd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tax.nd.gov

tax.nd.gov

217 ms

www.tax.nd.gov

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764 ms

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112 ms

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253 ms

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427 ms

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453 ms

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135 ms

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88 ms

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175 ms

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Accessibility Review

tax.nd.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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

tax.nd.gov best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

tax.nd.gov SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Tax.nd.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 Tax.nd.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

tax.nd.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Tax Nd. 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: