Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

mytaxexpress.com

Canada T1 T2 Software - NETFILE EFILE certified. Free download Canadian Tax Software - Arcadia Solution Corp.

Page Load Speed

652 ms in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

324 ms

Page Rendered

143 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mytaxexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 467 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mytaxexpress.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mytaxexpress.com

185 ms

homepage_blue_strip.jpg

54 ms

homepage_blue.jpg

134 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Mytaxexpress.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (185 ms) belongs to the original domain Mytaxexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

27.7 kB

After Optimization

23.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Mytaxexpress.com main page is 27.7 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 23.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 2.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 23.8 kB
  • After minification 22.1 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. My Tax Express images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Tax Express. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

mytaxexpress.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mytaxexpress.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mytaxexpress.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mytaxexpress.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 Mytaxexpress.com 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 My Tax Express. 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: