Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

payworks.ca

Payworks - Payroll, HR, Employee Self Service, Time & Absence and More

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

650 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

240 ms

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About Website

Welcome to payworks.ca homepage info - get ready to check Payworks best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about payworks.ca

Payworks is a leading expert in the field of total workforce management solutions, providing cloud-based Payroll, Human Resources, Employee Time and Absence Management to businesses across Canada.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Payworks.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 650 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

payworks.ca performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,150 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.318

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.payworks.ca

650 ms

gtm.js

60 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

17 ms

bundle.css

420 ms

devices_portal_page_fr.png

441 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Payworks.ca, 9% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Payworks.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (54%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Payworks.ca main page is 4.2 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. Javascripts take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 63.0 kB

  • Original 79.9 kB
  • After minification 77.3 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 63.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 449.7 kB
  • After minification 414.5 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. Payworks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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 1.9 MB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 283.4 kB

  • Original 501.8 kB
  • After minification 501.8 kB
  • After compression 218.5 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. Payworks.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 283.4 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (74%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Payworks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

payworks.ca 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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

payworks.ca 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

payworks.ca 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 Payworks.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 Payworks.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 data is detected on the main page of Payworks. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: