Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

mytax.co.nz

Web Server's Default Page

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

981 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

377 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mytax.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 981 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mytax.co.nz performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mytax.co.nz

981 ms

style.css

199 ms

app.css

587 ms

font-awesome.min.css

84 ms

lak1mdo.js

259 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Mytax.co.nz, 14% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Secure.livechatinc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Mytax.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (48%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Mytax.co.nz main page is 2.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 40.1 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.3 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 35.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 762.9 kB
  • After minification 742.0 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. Mytax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 864.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 373.0 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 864.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 134.5 kB

  • Original 166.4 kB
  • After minification 163.8 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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. Mytax.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 134.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (57%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mytax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mytax.co.nz accessibility score

95

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.

Best Practices

mytax.co.nz 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

SEO Factors

mytax.co.nz SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mytax.co.nz 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 Mytax.co.nz 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

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