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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

vat.gov.mt

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Page Load Speed

25 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

17.5 sec

Page Rendered

6.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vat.gov.mt page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 23.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vat.gov.mt performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vat.gov.mt

1249 ms

VariationRoot.aspx

205 ms

en

156 ms

Home-Page.aspx

1349 ms

controls.css

817 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Vat.gov.mt and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Vat.gov.mt.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (56%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vat.gov.mt main page is 2.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 70.2 kB

  • Original 88.9 kB
  • After minification 76.3 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 12.6 kB, which is 14% 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 70.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 553.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 958.3 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, Vat needs image optimization as it can save up to 553.2 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 508.5 kB

  • Original 685.6 kB
  • After minification 638.8 kB
  • After compression 177.1 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 508.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 427.9 kB

  • Original 493.3 kB
  • After minification 364.1 kB
  • After compression 65.4 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. Vat.gov.mt needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 427.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (65%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vat.gov.mt

vat.gov.mt

1249 ms

VariationRoot.aspx

VariationRoot.aspx

205 ms

en

en

156 ms

Home-Page.aspx

Home-Page.aspx

1349 ms

controls.css

controls.css

817 ms

search.css

search.css

1333 ms

corev4.css

corev4.css

1415 ms

Common.css

Common.css

565 ms

Style.css

Style.css

1195 ms

dialogs.css

dialogs.css

433 ms

Slider.css

Slider.css

525 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

844 ms

egov-responsive.css

egov-responsive.css

1255 ms

__utm.js

__utm.js

1333 ms

LargeSmallBannerControl.css

LargeSmallBannerControl.css

1321 ms

LargeSmallBannerControl.js

LargeSmallBannerControl.js

1319 ms

blank.js

blank.js

1307 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

463 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

421 ms

jquery.hoverintent.js

jquery.hoverintent.js

407 ms

cufon-yui.js

cufon-yui.js

406 ms

slides.jquery.js

slides.jquery.js

443 ms

dinpro_400-dinpro-bold_700.font.js

dinpro_400-dinpro-bold_700.font.js

1808 ms

jquery-fieldselection.js

jquery-fieldselection.js

1802 ms

jquery-ui-personalized-1.5.2.min.js

jquery-ui-personalized-1.5.2.min.js

1852 ms

default.js

default.js

1851 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

1802 ms

egov-responsive.js

egov-responsive.js

2187 ms

init.js

init.js

2239 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

2367 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

856 ms

Logo_EN.png

Logo_EN.png

745 ms

gosearch15.png

gosearch15.png

731 ms

print-icon.png

print-icon.png

745 ms

VAT_FAQ_small.jpg

VAT_FAQ_small.jpg

745 ms

online%20services%20small.jpg

online%20services%20small.jpg

789 ms

ScamAlert.jpg

ScamAlert.jpg

1020 ms

new_services.jpg

new_services.jpg

1022 ms

sepa.jpg

sepa.jpg

1021 ms

MITA%20-%20VAT%20-%20604%20x%20340%20-%20ENG%20copy.jpg

MITA%20-%20VAT%20-%20604%20x%20340%20-%20ENG%20copy.jpg

977 ms

CustCare153.jpg

CustCare153.jpg

743 ms

FRB.jpg

FRB.jpg

974 ms

registration.jpg

registration.jpg

977 ms

online_return.jpg

online_return.jpg

1055 ms

background.png

background.png

1243 ms

toolbar-bg.jpg

toolbar-bg.jpg

1186 ms

login-bg.jpg

login-bg.jpg

1179 ms

search_btns.png

search_btns.png

1178 ms

querysuggest.gif

querysuggest.gif

1179 ms

bgximg.png

bgximg.png

1178 ms

button-arrow.png

button-arrow.png

503 ms

main-content-bg.png

main-content-bg.png

476 ms

white-opaque-bg.png

white-opaque-bg.png

475 ms

button-arrow.png

button-arrow.png

474 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

476 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

720 ms

print.css

print.css

196 ms

ajaxtoolkit.js

ajaxtoolkit.js

862 ms

Accessibility Review

vat.gov.mt accessibility score

90

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

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

vat.gov.mt best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

vat.gov.mt SEO score

54

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

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 Vat.gov.mt 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 Vat.gov.mt 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

vat.gov.mt

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