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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

firstpayments.co.uk

- First Payments Payment processing Payment processing

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

472 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing First Payments content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about firstpayments.co.uk

When we launched in 2011 we wanted to make a difference in the payments industry, we are now one of the UK’s leading independent payment processing providers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstpayments.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstpayments.co.uk performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,410 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.268

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.firstpaymentmerchantservices.co.uk

191 ms

firstpaymentmerchantservices.co.uk

1729 ms

js

60 ms

styles.css

173 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

250 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Firstpayments.co.uk, 40% (45 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Firstpaymentmerchantservices.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (66%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

923.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstpayments.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. CSS take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 145.6 kB

  • Original 176.4 kB
  • After minification 170.0 kB
  • After compression 30.8 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 145.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 327.0 kB
  • After minification 323.5 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. First Payments images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 515.5 kB

  • Original 932.7 kB
  • After minification 917.9 kB
  • After compression 417.3 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 515.5 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 151.5 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. Firstpayments.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (66%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Payments. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

firstpayments.co.uk accessibility score

90

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

firstpayments.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

firstpayments.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Firstpayments.co.uk 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 Firstpayments.co.uk 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

firstpayments.co.uk

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