Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

howlandtax.com

Howland Tax Services International - Individual and Small Business Income Tax Preparation for Canada and the United States

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

487 ms

Page Rendered

446 ms

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Howland Tax Services International provides cross-border tax preparation services for individuals and small businesses in Canada and the United States

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howlandtax.com page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 933 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howlandtax.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

howlandtax.com

74 ms

howlandtax.com

142 ms

css

34 ms

site.css

34 ms

flags_mobile.jpg

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Howlandtax.com, 11% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 11% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (142 ms) belongs to the original domain Howlandtax.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.9 kB (25%)

Content Size

71.2 kB

After Optimization

53.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Howlandtax.com main page is 71.2 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 43.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 25.5 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 17.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 43.6 kB
  • After minification 43.5 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. Howland Tax images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 250 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Howlandtax.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 250 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (50%)

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howland 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

howlandtax.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

howlandtax.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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

howlandtax.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

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

    WINDOWS-1252

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