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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

firstdata.ca

Credit Card Processing & Small Business Solutions for Canada | Fiserv

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

378 ms

firstdata.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit firstdata.ca now to see the best up-to-date Firstdata content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about firstdata.ca

As one of the largest payment processors for Canada, Clover’s all-in-one point-of-sale and payment solutions help small businesses grow. Learn more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstdata.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstdata.ca performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,330 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.646

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstdata.ca

156 ms

home.html

52 ms

419 ms

rum-standalone.js

35 ms

clientlib-grid.lc-0aa63d5bbbcf6e8a3ce7b8e6034cd7f1-lc.min.css

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Firstdata.ca, 61% (33 requests) were made to Merchants.fiserv.com and 15% (8 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (494 ms) relates to the external source Merchants.fiserv.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 896.1 kB (72%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

353.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Firstdata.ca 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 55.9 kB

  • Original 64.4 kB
  • After minification 49.5 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 14.9 kB, which is 23% 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 55.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 104.6 kB
  • After minification 97.1 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. Firstdata images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 832.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 248.3 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 832.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (40%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firstdata. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

firstdata.ca

firstdata.ca

156 ms

home.html

home.html

52 ms

419 ms

rum-standalone.js

rum-standalone.js

35 ms

clientlib-grid.lc-0aa63d5bbbcf6e8a3ce7b8e6034cd7f1-lc.min.css

clientlib-grid.lc-0aa63d5bbbcf6e8a3ce7b8e6034cd7f1-lc.min.css

109 ms

clientlib-firstdata-public.lc-2f66031b5dbb2c38b25a33fb04513df3-lc.min.css

clientlib-firstdata-public.lc-2f66031b5dbb2c38b25a33fb04513df3-lc.min.css

265 ms

csrf.lc-56934e461ff6c436f962a5990541a527-lc.min.js

csrf.lc-56934e461ff6c436f962a5990541a527-lc.min.js

106 ms

clientlib-firstdata-public.lc-7deed58c61d8fd531594225ea606954c-lc.min.js

clientlib-firstdata-public.lc-7deed58c61d8fd531594225ea606954c-lc.min.js

494 ms

core.wcm.components.commons.datalayer.v1.lc-70264651675213ed7f7cc5a02a00f621-lc.min.js

core.wcm.components.commons.datalayer.v1.lc-70264651675213ed7f7cc5a02a00f621-lc.min.js

113 ms

stormcaster.js

stormcaster.js

260 ms

GrowYourBusiness-1

GrowYourBusiness-1

420 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

96 ms

close.svg

close.svg

45 ms

menu.svg

menu.svg

47 ms

book-a-callback.svg

book-a-callback.svg

104 ms

card-machines.svg

card-machines.svg

106 ms

clover-pos.svg

clover-pos.svg

109 ms

online-payments.svg

online-payments.svg

102 ms

visa.svg

visa.svg

101 ms

mastercard.svg

mastercard.svg

219 ms

american_express.svg

american_express.svg

147 ms

discover.svg

discover.svg

196 ms

union-pay.svg

union-pay.svg

216 ms

apple_pay.svg

apple_pay.svg

195 ms

gpay.svg

gpay.svg

219 ms

samsung_pay.svg

samsung_pay.svg

233 ms

Clover_Flex_II_Left_ret_cs_11.5.19-280x160.jpg

Clover_Flex_II_Left_ret_cs_11.5.19-280x160.jpg

269 ms

Mini-right-facing-Home-no-shadows-280x160.jpg

Mini-right-facing-Home-no-shadows-280x160.jpg

304 ms

Product-list-station-pro-269x269.jpg

Product-list-station-pro-269x269.jpg

270 ms

clover%20desktop-and-mobile-landingpage-software-280x160.png

clover%20desktop-and-mobile-landingpage-software-280x160.png

269 ms

get-set-up.svg

get-set-up.svg

247 ms

no-waiting-around.svg

no-waiting-around.svg

360 ms

payments.svg

payments.svg

370 ms

deposits-direct-to.svg

deposits-direct-to.svg

366 ms

utag.js

utag.js

99 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

244 ms

UniversForFiserv45-Lt.otf

UniversForFiserv45-Lt.otf

262 ms

token.json

token.json

230 ms

utag.1.js

utag.1.js

14 ms

utag.12.js

utag.12.js

59 ms

utag.13.js

utag.13.js

78 ms

utag.30.js

utag.30.js

38 ms

utag.50.js

utag.50.js

44 ms

utag.59.js

utag.59.js

50 ms

js

js

79 ms

heap-1285302910.js

heap-1285302910.js

103 ms

evidon-sitenotice-tag.js

evidon-sitenotice-tag.js

94 ms

country.js

country.js

132 ms

snthemes.js

snthemes.js

135 ms

integration.js

integration.js

124 ms

invoca-latest.min.js

invoca-latest.min.js

107 ms

utag.v.js

utag.v.js

16 ms

h

h

41 ms

settingsV3.js

settingsV3.js

37 ms

Accessibility Review

firstdata.ca accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

firstdata.ca 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

firstdata.ca SEO score

86

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Firstdata.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 Firstdata.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

firstdata.ca

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