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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thetaxschool.com

The Tax School | Continuing Education Courses for Tax Preparers

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thetaxschool.com homepage info - get ready to check The Tax School best content right away, or after learning these important things about thetaxschool.com

The Tax School, a wholly owned subsidiary of Guaranteed Products (GPS), has been a provider of continuing education courses to CPA’s, EA’s, CA tax preparers and other tax and accounting professionals ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thetaxschool.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thetaxschool.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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47 ms

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1353 ms

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82 ms

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80 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Thetaxschool.com, 46% (26 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thetaxschool.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (37%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thetaxschool.com main page is 3.8 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. 75% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 343.2 kB

  • Original 440.2 kB
  • After minification 438.1 kB
  • After compression 97.0 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 343.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. The Tax School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 691.5 kB

  • Original 947.0 kB
  • After minification 947.0 kB
  • After compression 255.5 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 691.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 337.3 kB

  • Original 391.6 kB
  • After minification 389.8 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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. Thetaxschool.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 337.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (38%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Tax School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thetaxschool.com accessibility score

73

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thetaxschool.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thetaxschool.com SEO score

83

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

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 Thetaxschool.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 Thetaxschool.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

thetaxschool.com

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