Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

sandbox.paypal.com

Digital Wallets, Money Management, and More | PayPal US

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

297 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

378 ms

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About Website

Welcome to sandbox.paypal.com homepage info - get ready to check Sandbox Pay Pal best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about sandbox.paypal.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sandbox.paypal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 297 ms and then it took 2.8 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

sandbox.paypal.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

297 ms

68b899abbf68484d4b041cf5563227d898ada7.css

132 ms

a42c94c5a48051421811b8a9346c627d0f4ce7.js

177 ms

bs.js

124 ms

378d37bf73d8256f5869ce26cf35f9e70733c3.js

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sandbox.paypal.com, 58% (18 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (329 ms) relates to the external source Rover.ebay.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 676.3 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

623.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Sandbox.paypal.com main page is 1.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 654.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 7.5 kB, which is 19% 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 30.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 429.5 kB
  • After minification 400.7 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. Sandbox Pay Pal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 467.5 kB

  • Original 654.6 kB
  • After minification 565.7 kB
  • After compression 187.0 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 467.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 149.2 kB

  • Original 175.4 kB
  • After minification 140.4 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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. Sandbox.paypal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (72%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sandbox 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sandbox.paypal.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

sandbox.paypal.com best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sandbox.paypal.com 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 Sandbox.paypal.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 Sandbox.paypal.com 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 Sandbox Pay Pal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: