Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 57

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

paylock.com

Parking Solutions | Parking Management Systems | PayLock

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

691 ms

paylock.com screenshot

About Website

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PayLock offers a suite of unique parking management products and services. We provide solutions that provide unprecedented customer service and efficient technology that is easy to use.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paylock.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

paylock.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paylock.com

1205 ms

dvt6vjp.js

148 ms

zenbu.css

144 ms

modernizr.custom.2.8.3.js

144 ms

jquery.min.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Paylock.com, 26% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Paylock.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 274.6 kB (36%)

Content Size

762.8 kB

After Optimization

488.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Paylock.com main page is 762.8 kB. 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. Images take 588.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 25.9 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 7.2 kB, which is 28% 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 20.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 151.1 kB

  • Original 588.7 kB
  • After minification 437.6 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, Pay Lock needs image optimization as it can save up to 151.1 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 77.9 kB

  • Original 117.0 kB
  • After minification 116.7 kB
  • After compression 39.1 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 77.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 31.0 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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. Paylock.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (31%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pay Lock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

paylock.com accessibility score

81

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

paylock.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

paylock.com SEO score

57

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Paylock.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 Paylock.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 description is not detected on the main page of Pay Lock. 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: