Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

americastax.com

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

229 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

219 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americastax.com page load time and found that the first response time was 229 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americastax.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americastax.com

229 ms

navya.css

392 ms

down.js

457 ms

image-3692589-7088923

32 ms

image-3692589-7048790

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Americastax.com, 13% (2 requests) were made to Yceml.net and 6% (1 request) were made to Awltovhc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (457 ms) belongs to the original domain Americastax.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

346.6 kB

After Optimization

319.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Americastax.com main page is 346.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 333.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 11.9 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 8.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 333.6 kB
  • After minification 315.8 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. America S Tax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 139 B

  • Original 261 B
  • After minification 225 B
  • After compression 122 B

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 139 B or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 640 B

  • Original 910 B
  • After minification 751 B
  • After compression 270 B

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. Americastax.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 640 B or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of America S Tax. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

americastax.com accessibility score

84

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

americastax.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

americastax.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Americastax.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Americastax.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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