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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

taxscouts.com

TaxScouts - We sort your Self Assessment tax returns for you.

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

303 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

823 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taxscouts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 303 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

taxscouts.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

taxscouts.com

303 ms

taxscouts.com

814 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

45 ms

otSDKStub.js

57 ms

main_1cff31d4.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Taxscouts.com, 11% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (814 ms) belongs to the original domain Taxscouts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Taxscouts.com main page is 1.5 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 97.5 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 92.1 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 29.8 kB, which is 24% 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 97.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Tax Scouts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 196.0 kB
  • After minification 196.0 kB
  • After compression 193.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 151 B

  • Original 89.4 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 89.2 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. Taxscouts.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (25%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tax Scouts. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

taxscouts.com

taxscouts.com

303 ms

taxscouts.com

taxscouts.com

814 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

45 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

57 ms

main_1cff31d4.css

main_1cff31d4.css

45 ms

mailin-front.css

mailin-front.css

34 ms

8a9bf280-4703-4d1b-b5b8-81e2c1561b63.json

8a9bf280-4703-4d1b-b5b8-81e2c1561b63.json

24 ms

icon-cookie.png

icon-cookie.png

26 ms

TaxReturns-Hero-768x628-1-1.webp

TaxReturns-Hero-768x628-1-1.webp

23 ms

Image_Answer-questions.png

Image_Answer-questions.png

20 ms

Doodle_Answer-questions.svg

Doodle_Answer-questions.svg

21 ms

Image_Accountant.png

Image_Accountant.png

33 ms

Doodle_Accountant.svg

Doodle_Accountant.svg

31 ms

Image_Tax-return-1.png

Image_Tax-return-1.png

36 ms

Doodle_Tax-return.svg

Doodle_Tax-return.svg

43 ms

01-768x266-1.png

01-768x266-1.png

39 ms

price_label_169-1.png

price_label_169-1.png

39 ms

HMRC_Recognised.png

HMRC_Recognised.png

46 ms

Acc-3-1024x768.png

Acc-3-1024x768.png

48 ms

Q_RMGjH0I0k

Q_RMGjH0I0k

116 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

29 ms

main_1cff31d4.js

main_1cff31d4.js

47 ms

Hero-image_service_doodle-1.png

Hero-image_service_doodle-1.png

42 ms

techcrunch-1.png

techcrunch-1.png

39 ms

mirror-1.png

mirror-1.png

46 ms

the-times.png

the-times.png

54 ms

business-insider.png

business-insider.png

55 ms

financial-times.png

financial-times.png

55 ms

price_169.png

price_169.png

61 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

7 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

24 ms

base.js

base.js

107 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

151 ms

Inter-Regular.woff

Inter-Regular.woff

112 ms

Inter-Medium.woff

Inter-Medium.woff

601 ms

Inter-SemiBold.woff

Inter-SemiBold.woff

586 ms

Inter-Bold.woff

Inter-Bold.woff

551 ms

nuckle_semi_bold-webfont.woff

nuckle_semi_bold-webfont.woff

110 ms

nuckle_bold-webfont.woff

nuckle_bold-webfont.woff

481 ms

u3o6s91JBL8hdS-8zlKaE9_QjMMICyQyS6sMo66aQxY.js

u3o6s91JBL8hdS-8zlKaE9_QjMMICyQyS6sMo66aQxY.js

100 ms

embed.js

embed.js

28 ms

id

id

17 ms

Create

Create

78 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

15 ms

Accessibility Review

taxscouts.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

taxscouts.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

taxscouts.com SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Taxscouts.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 Taxscouts.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

taxscouts.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Tax Scouts. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: