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statetaxcentral.com

State Taxes - Help, Forms, Questions and Answers at State Tax Central

Page Load Speed

17.8 sec in total

First Response

468 ms

Resources Loaded

11.2 sec

Page Rendered

6.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Statetaxcentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 468 ms and then it took 17.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

statetaxcentral.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

statetaxcentral.com

468 ms

css.css

1029 ms

jquery.min.js

2243 ms

benefits-1.0.js

406 ms

script.js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Statetaxcentral.com, 8% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Statetaxcentral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.5 kB (43%)

Content Size

371.8 kB

After Optimization

213.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Statetaxcentral.com main page is 371.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 236.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 24.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 63.2 kB
  • After minification 59.1 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. State Tax Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 99.8 kB

  • Original 236.3 kB
  • After minification 233.4 kB
  • After compression 136.5 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 99.8 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 31.4 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. Statetaxcentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (51%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of State Tax Central. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

statetaxcentral.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Statetaxcentral.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 Statetaxcentral.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 State Tax Central. 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: