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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

paypal.co.za

A Simple and Safer Way to Pay and Get Paid | PayPal ZA

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

403 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

623 ms

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About Website

Welcome to paypal.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Pay Pal best content right away, or after learning these important things about paypal.co.za

PayPal is the faster, safer way to send money, make an online payment, receive money or set up a merchant account.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paypal.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 403 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

paypal.co.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

403 ms

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95 ms

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78 ms

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82 ms

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127 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Paypal.co.za, 3% (1 request) were made to Paypal.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (403 ms) relates to the external source Paypal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 694.8 kB (34%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Paypal.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 36.6 kB
  • After minification 28.5 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.2 kB, which is 22% 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 28.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Pay Pal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 445.2 kB

  • Original 634.7 kB
  • After minification 568.8 kB
  • After compression 189.5 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 445.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 185.5 kB

  • Original 217.6 kB
  • After minification 173.0 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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. Paypal.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 185.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (48%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pay Pal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

home

home

403 ms

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95 ms

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78 ms

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82 ms

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127 ms

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85 ms

bs.js

bs.js

85 ms

pp_jscode_080706.js

pp_jscode_080706.js

117 ms

pa.js

pa.js

116 ms

ppcom.svg

ppcom.svg

11 ms

home-signup.jpg

home-signup.jpg

213 ms

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206 ms

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207 ms

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205 ms

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208 ms

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212 ms

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213 ms

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212 ms

home_n3_1x.jpg

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209 ms

PayPalSansBig-Regular.woff

PayPalSansBig-Regular.woff

73 ms

PayPalSansBig-Light.woff

PayPalSansBig-Light.woff

69 ms

PayPalSansSmall-Regular.woff

PayPalSansSmall-Regular.woff

70 ms

PayPalSansSmall-Bold.woff

PayPalSansSmall-Bold.woff

70 ms

PayPalSansSmall-Light.woff

PayPalSansSmall-Light.woff

70 ms

serverComponent.php

serverComponent.php

117 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

13 ms

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23 ms

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Accessibility Review

paypal.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

paypal.co.za 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

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

paypal.co.za SEO score

93

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

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 Paypal.co.za 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 Paypal.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

paypal.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Pay Pal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: