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salestax.com

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

163 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Salestax.com page load time and found that the first response time was 126 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

salestax.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

salestax.com

126 ms

www.salestax.com

310 ms

bootstrap.css

162 ms

styles.css

87 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

212 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Salestax.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (322 ms) belongs to the original domain Salestax.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 358.1 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

707.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Salestax.com main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 541.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 6.8 kB, which is 21% 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 25.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 541.8 kB
  • After minification 531.6 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. Sales Tax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 322.9 kB

  • Original 491.6 kB
  • After minification 485.6 kB
  • After compression 168.7 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 322.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (52%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sales Tax. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

salestax.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Salestax.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 Salestax.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

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