Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

intuit.co.za

Accounting Software | QuickBooks South Africa

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

461 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

893 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Intuit.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 461 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

intuit.co.za performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.intuit.co.za

461 ms

index.jsp

263 ms

standard.css

128 ms

standard.js

166 ms

util1.css

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Intuit.co.za, 57% (34 requests) were made to Intuitglobal.intuit.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Quickbooks-s3.intuitstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (498 ms) relates to the external source Quickbooks.intuit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 329.2 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Intuit.co.za main page is 1.6 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. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 54.0 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 60.3 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 7.4 kB, which is 11% 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 54.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Intuit images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 190.0 kB

  • Original 325.0 kB
  • After minification 294.4 kB
  • After compression 135.0 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 190.0 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 52.9 kB

  • Original 68.9 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. Intuit.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (45%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

intuit.co.za accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

intuit.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

intuit.co.za SEO score

86

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Intuit.co.za 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 Intuit.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 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: