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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

taxassist.ie

The Accountancy and Tax Service for Small Businesses | TaxAssist Accountants

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

377 ms

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About Website

Visit taxassist.ie now to see the best up-to-date Tax Assist content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about taxassist.ie

TaxAssist Accountants provide tax accountancy services and advice for small businesses in Ireland. For year end accounts, bookkeeping, tax return services, VAT and payroll services contact Us on 1800 ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taxassist.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

taxassist.ie performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,080 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

taxassist.ie

30 ms

taxassist.ie

129 ms

www.taxassist.ie

303 ms

app-2024.css

281 ms

uc.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Taxassist.ie, 20% (10 requests) were made to Taxassistassets.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com and 12% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (470 ms) relates to the external source Assets.taxassist.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 120.1 kB (43%)

Content Size

276.5 kB

After Optimization

156.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Taxassist.ie main page is 276.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 137.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 43.1 kB
  • After minification 43.0 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 32.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 65.5 kB
  • After minification 65.5 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. Tax Assist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 87.9 kB

  • Original 137.7 kB
  • After minification 137.7 kB
  • After compression 49.8 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 87.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 30.3 kB
  • After minification 30.3 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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. Taxassist.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (67%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tax Assist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

taxassist.ie

taxassist.ie

30 ms

taxassist.ie

taxassist.ie

129 ms

www.taxassist.ie

www.taxassist.ie

303 ms

app-2024.css

app-2024.css

281 ms

uc.js

uc.js

48 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

37 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

141 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

136 ms

axios.min.js

axios.min.js

131 ms

app.js

app.js

131 ms

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425 ms

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143 ms

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27 ms

p.css

p.css

27 ms

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gtm.js

166 ms

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210 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

119 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

190 ms

1710414936_2024-logo.svg

1710414936_2024-logo.svg

156 ms

icon_search.svg

icon_search.svg

188 ms

ie-hero-w_1000.jpg

ie-hero-w_1000.jpg

279 ms

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220628_TaxAssist12230.webp

410 ms

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brightbooks.svg

470 ms

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177 ms

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164 ms

sample_sample_logo3.png

sample_sample_logo3.png

297 ms

arrow.svg

arrow.svg

181 ms

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social_facebook.svg

180 ms

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social_twitter.svg

178 ms

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social_linkedin.svg

225 ms

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social_instagram.svg

226 ms

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social_youtube.svg

224 ms

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1710414427_magnifying-background.svg

311 ms

1710414473_people-background.svg

1710414473_people-background.svg

299 ms

1710414502_switching-background.svg

1710414502_switching-background.svg

263 ms

ga.js

ga.js

116 ms

WidgetScript

WidgetScript

112 ms

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Fabriga-Bold.otf

152 ms

Fabriga-Regular.otf

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151 ms

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112 ms

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144 ms

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171 ms

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171 ms

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171 ms

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insight_tag_errors.gif

187 ms

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68 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

35 ms

collect

collect

31 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

31 ms

Accessibility Review

taxassist.ie accessibility score

96

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.

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

taxassist.ie 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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

taxassist.ie SEO score

100

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Taxassist.ie 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 Taxassist.ie 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

taxassist.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Tax Assist. 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: