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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

help.taxsimple.com

Internal Revenue Service | An official website of the United States government

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

167 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Help Taxsimple content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about help.taxsimple.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Help.taxsimple.com page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

help.taxsimple.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.213

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

help.taxsimple.com

132 ms

www.irs.gov

55 ms

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149 ms

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42 ms

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34 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Help.taxsimple.com, 68% (48 requests) were made to Irs.gov and 11% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (257 ms) relates to the external source Irs.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 488.8 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Help.taxsimple.com main page is 1.7 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. 80% 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 729.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 104.9 kB

  • Original 122.6 kB
  • After minification 95.9 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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 26.7 kB, which is 22% 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 104.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 651.7 kB
  • After minification 639.9 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. Help Taxsimple images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 356.6 kB

  • Original 729.5 kB
  • After minification 729.0 kB
  • After compression 373.0 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 356.6 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 152.0 kB
  • After compression 136.5 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. Help.taxsimple.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (44%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Help Taxsimple. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

help.taxsimple.com

help.taxsimple.com

132 ms

www.irs.gov

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55 ms

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149 ms

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42 ms

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34 ms

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59 ms

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22 ms

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22 ms

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73 ms

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54 ms

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62 ms

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55 ms

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54 ms

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61 ms

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182 ms

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179 ms

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40 ms

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176 ms

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122 ms

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122 ms

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145 ms

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23 ms

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Accessibility Review

help.taxsimple.com accessibility score

86

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

Best Practices

help.taxsimple.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

help.taxsimple.com SEO score

96

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 Help.taxsimple.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 Help.taxsimple.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

help.taxsimple.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Help Taxsimple. 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: