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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

taxfreeway.ca

Cutting edge Canadian tax software - TaxFreeway

Page Load Speed

693 ms in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

424 ms

Page Rendered

67 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taxfreeway.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 491 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

taxfreeway.ca performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.453

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

taxfreeway.ca

202 ms

taxfreeway.ca

113 ms

message.js

22 ms

frameLeft.gif

27 ms

signWin.gif

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Taxfreeway.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (202 ms) belongs to the original domain Taxfreeway.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.0 kB (69%)

Content Size

14.5 kB

After Optimization

4.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Taxfreeway.ca main page is 14.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 13.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 12.9 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 9.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 269 B

  • Original 517 B
  • After minification 455 B
  • After compression 248 B

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 269 B or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tax Freeway. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

taxfreeway.ca

taxfreeway.ca

202 ms

taxfreeway.ca

taxfreeway.ca

113 ms

message.js

message.js

22 ms

frameLeft.gif

frameLeft.gif

27 ms

signWin.gif

signWin.gif

51 ms

signiPad.gif

signiPad.gif

66 ms

signMac.gif

signMac.gif

68 ms

frameRight.gif

frameRight.gif

68 ms

frameLeft1.gif

frameLeft1.gif

68 ms

frameRight1.gif

frameRight1.gif

67 ms

leftCorner.gif

leftCorner.gif

75 ms

Accessibility Review

taxfreeway.ca accessibility score

58

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

taxfreeway.ca best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

taxfreeway.ca SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Taxfreeway.ca 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 Taxfreeway.ca main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

taxfreeway.ca

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