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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

freefile-help.intuit.com

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Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

555 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

119 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freefile-help.intuit.com page load time and found that the first response time was 555 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freefile-help.intuit.com performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freefile.intuit.com

555 ms

resource-error-handler.js

29 ms

cg-mktg-page-stacked.css

58 ms

freefile-theme.css

62 ms

TurboDings.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Freefile-help.intuit.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Uxfabric.intuitcdn.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Lib.intuitcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Freefile.intuit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 120.6 kB (33%)

Content Size

365.4 kB

After Optimization

244.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freefile-help.intuit.com main page is 365.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 207.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 18.9 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 14.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 109.3 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. Free File Help Intuit images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 92.8 kB

  • Original 207.4 kB
  • After minification 203.1 kB
  • After compression 114.6 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 92.8 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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. Freefile-help.intuit.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.2 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (80%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free File Help Intuit. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

freefile.intuit.com

freefile.intuit.com

555 ms

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resource-error-handler.js

29 ms

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58 ms

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freefile-theme.css

62 ms

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TurboDings.css

25 ms

turbodings-colored.css

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40 ms

Avenir.css

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96 ms

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44 ms

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150 ms

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81 ms

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117 ms

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115 ms

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122 ms

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147 ms

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144 ms

appvars.js

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165 ms

appvars-us-prod-freeFile.js

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139 ms

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163 ms

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508 ms

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188 ms

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861 ms

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635 ms

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207 ms

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248 ms

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270 ms

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351 ms

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371 ms

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28 ms

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462 ms

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833 ms

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29 ms

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14 ms

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144 ms

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67 ms

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7 ms

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20 ms

Accessibility Review

freefile-help.intuit.com accessibility score

97

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

freefile-help.intuit.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

freefile-help.intuit.com SEO score

79

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Freefile-help.intuit.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 Freefile-help.intuit.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

freefile-help.intuit.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Free File Help Intuit. 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: