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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

taxtim.com

Do Your Tax Return Quickly and Easily in South Africa | TaxTim SA

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taxtim.com page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

taxtim.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.184

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

taxtim.com

194 ms

www.taxtim.com

290 ms

101 ms

css

41 ms

all.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Taxtim.com, 26% (14 requests) were made to Media.taxtim.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (290 ms) belongs to the original domain Taxtim.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

506.4 kB

After Optimization

382.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Taxtim.com main page is 506.4 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 272.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 47.2 kB
  • After minification 36.1 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 11.1 kB, which is 23% 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 38.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 102.0 kB
  • After minification 82.7 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, Tax Tim needs image optimization as it can save up to 19.2 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 272.0 kB
  • After minification 272.0 kB
  • After compression 268.3 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

-74%

Potential reduce by 63.0 kB

  • Original 85.3 kB
  • After minification 57.4 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. Taxtim.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (53%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tax Tim. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

taxtim.com

taxtim.com

194 ms

www.taxtim.com

www.taxtim.com

290 ms

101 ms

css

css

41 ms

all.css

all.css

45 ms

jquery.modal.min.css

jquery.modal.min.css

70 ms

taxtim-www-staging.css

taxtim-www-staging.css

140 ms

api.js

api.js

48 ms

functions80.js

functions80.js

206 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

206 ms

scripts5.js

scripts5.js

224 ms

vue.min.js

vue.min.js

62 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

23 ms

jquery.modal.min.css

jquery.modal.min.css

45 ms

taxtim-www-staging.css

taxtim-www-staging.css

5 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

3 ms

functions80.js

functions80.js

7 ms

scripts5.js

scripts5.js

3 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

72 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

125 ms

icon_tick_circle.svg

icon_tick_circle.svg

6 ms

tim_full.svg

tim_full.svg

4 ms

taxtim-logo.svg

taxtim-logo.svg

70 ms

youtube_thumbnail.jpg

youtube_thumbnail.jpg

74 ms

momentum-logo.png

momentum-logo.png

74 ms

sanlam-reality.png

sanlam-reality.png

74 ms

partner-old-mutual.png

partner-old-mutual.png

145 ms

partner-fnb-ebucks.png

partner-fnb-ebucks.png

145 ms

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SlGWmQWMvZQIdix7AFxXmMh3eDs1Yg.ttf

19 ms

SlGVmQWMvZQIdix7AFxXkHNSaA.ttf

SlGVmQWMvZQIdix7AFxXkHNSaA.ttf

28 ms

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JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtr6Hw5aX8.ttf

29 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

28 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

29 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

32 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

5 ms

taxtim-logo.svg

taxtim-logo.svg

43 ms

youtube_thumbnail.jpg

youtube_thumbnail.jpg

43 ms

sanlam-reality.png

sanlam-reality.png

42 ms

momentum-logo.png

momentum-logo.png

70 ms

partner-old-mutual.png

partner-old-mutual.png

37 ms

partner-fnb-ebucks.png

partner-fnb-ebucks.png

35 ms

js

js

164 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

53 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

20 ms

js

js

89 ms

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1768777863374328

105 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

collect

collect

194 ms

148 ms

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1937241523169209

164 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

93 ms

19 ms

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422919165273439

60 ms

Accessibility Review

taxtim.com accessibility score

75

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

taxtim.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

taxtim.com SEO score

85

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Taxtim.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 Taxtim.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

taxtim.com

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