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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

paycity.co.za

Pay traffic fines and renew car licence online

Page Load Speed

19 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

11.5 sec

Page Rendered

6.4 sec

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About Website

Visit paycity.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Pay City content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about paycity.co.za

payCity allows you to view and pay your traffic fines, renew your car licence online, settle your municipal accounts, buy prepaid utilities

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paycity.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 17.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

paycity.co.za performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paycity.co.za

1035 ms

default.aspx

2180 ms

jsMain20130513.js

1411 ms

jquery.min.js

677 ms

responsiveslides.min.js

1193 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Paycity.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Paycity.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 685.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

996.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Paycity.co.za main page is 1.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 971.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 35.8 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 11.7 kB, which is 33% 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 29.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 209.4 kB

  • Original 971.0 kB
  • After minification 761.7 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. Obviously, Pay City needs image optimization as it can save up to 209.4 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 376.2 kB

  • Original 591.2 kB
  • After minification 550.7 kB
  • After compression 215.0 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 376.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 70.3 kB

  • Original 83.0 kB
  • After minification 65.8 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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. Paycity.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 70.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (49%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pay City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

paycity.co.za

paycity.co.za

1035 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

2180 ms

jsMain20130513.js

jsMain20130513.js

1411 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

677 ms

responsiveslides.min.js

responsiveslides.min.js

1193 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

693 ms

all.css

all.css

3155 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

1926 ms

RenewalInfo.js

RenewalInfo.js

1809 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

1879 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

1807 ms

pubads_impl_147.js

pubads_impl_147.js

144 ms

container.html

container.html

2513 ms

ads

ads

461 ms

a.png

a.png

1735 ms

b.png

b.png

1668 ms

c.png

c.png

2582 ms

home_facebook.jpg

home_facebook.jpg

1232 ms

home_twitter.jpg

home_twitter.jpg

545 ms

jobsatpaycity.png

jobsatpaycity.png

515 ms

Login.gif

Login.gif

1019 ms

Register.gif

Register.gif

1052 ms

Loader.gif

Loader.gif

1531 ms

bg-content.gif

bg-content.gif

1389 ms

bg-sidebar-holder.gif

bg-sidebar-holder.gif

1169 ms

bg-btn.gif

bg-btn.gif

1140 ms

text-btn.gif

text-btn.gif

1140 ms

themes.gif

themes.gif

1941 ms

bg-header.gif

bg-header.gif

1690 ms

logo.png

logo.png

1710 ms

bg-nav.gif

bg-nav.gif

1710 ms

divider01.gif

divider01.gif

1722 ms

text-nav.gif

text-nav.gif

1718 ms

bg-nav02.png

bg-nav02.png

1716 ms

bg-input.gif

bg-input.gif

1577 ms

bg-footer.gif

bg-footer.gif

1577 ms

ico-twitter.gif

ico-twitter.gif

1645 ms

ga.js

ga.js

131 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

504 ms

collect

collect

307 ms

Accessibility Review

paycity.co.za accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

paycity.co.za best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

paycity.co.za 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

robots.txt is not valid

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Paycity.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 Paycity.co.za 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

paycity.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pay City. 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: