Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

quicktaxweb.ca

TurboTax® Canada 2022-2023: Canada's #1 Tax Preparation Software - E-File Taxes Online

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

570 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Quicktaxweb.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 570 ms and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

quicktaxweb.ca performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value42,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

software

570 ms

385afb1b9e1346957dae.css

58 ms

67309342309ff0abef3a.css

77 ms

polyfills-a40ef1678bae11e696dba45124eadd70.js

3429 ms

iux-core.js

4389 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Quicktaxweb.ca, 31% (23 requests) were made to Turbotax.intuit.ca and 19% (14 requests) were made to Images.ctfassets.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source Accounts.intuit.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 260.2 kB (70%)

Content Size

372.8 kB

After Optimization

112.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Quicktaxweb.ca main page is 372.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 314.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 260.1 kB

  • Original 314.1 kB
  • After minification 314.0 kB
  • After compression 54.0 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 260.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 26 B

  • Original 54.0 kB
  • After minification 54.0 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. Quick Tax Web images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (53%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Quick Tax Web. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

quicktaxweb.ca accessibility score

88

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

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

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

quicktaxweb.ca 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

quicktaxweb.ca 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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Quicktaxweb.ca 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 Quicktaxweb.ca 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 Quick Tax Web. 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: