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parentpay.co.uk

ParentPay - Leading Cashless Payment System for Schools

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

406 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

789 ms

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About Website

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ParentPay is the leading online payment service for schools. Cashless payments & dinner money administration for schools, families & local authorities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parentpay.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 406 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

parentpay.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.parentpay.com

406 ms

css

73 ms

glyphicons.css

87 ms

css_7CYF9En6DNp6AojfSKnT8USKR3GvzPwznmTqLTKT9VM.css

172 ms

css_5_BUtFsuYmBv2u0gfiE__2SQM42eTGzqKukD1WCdupQ.css

330 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Parentpay.co.uk, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (840 ms) relates to the external source Parentpay.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 366.5 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

905.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Parentpay.co.uk 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 920.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 43.4 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 6.9 kB, which is 14% 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 41.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 99.3 kB

  • Original 920.9 kB
  • After minification 821.6 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. Obviously, Parent Pay needs image optimization as it can save up to 99.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 116.1 kB

  • Original 168.5 kB
  • After minification 130.6 kB
  • After compression 52.4 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 116.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 109.6 kB

  • Original 132.6 kB
  • After minification 131.2 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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. Parentpay.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (27%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parent Pay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

parentpay.co.uk SEO score

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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 Parentpay.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 Parentpay.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

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