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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

paymentexpress.ie

Windcave | Home | EFTPOS | Payment Gateway | Online Credit & Debit Card Processing

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

636 ms

Page Rendered

324 ms

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About Website

Welcome to paymentexpress.ie homepage info - get ready to check Payment Express best content right away, or after learning these important things about paymentexpress.ie

PCI compliant payment gateway for merchants worldwide accepting credit & debit cards in Retail, Online, Call centre, OPT/UPT & Vending environments.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paymentexpress.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 960 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

paymentexpress.ie performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

windcave.com

90 ms

css.css

19 ms

js.js

31 ms

js2.js

31 ms

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Paymentexpress.ie, 7% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (209 ms) relates to the external source Windcave.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.9 kB (20%)

Content Size

409.2 kB

After Optimization

328.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Paymentexpress.ie main page is 409.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 206.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 18.4 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 7.7 kB, which is 29% 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 22.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 206.2 kB
  • After minification 206.2 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. Payment Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 102.5 kB
  • After minification 102.5 kB
  • After compression 77.5 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 25.0 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 33.8 kB

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 74.5 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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. Paymentexpress.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.8 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Payment Express. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

windcave.com

windcave.com

90 ms

css.css

css.css

19 ms

js.js

js.js

31 ms

js2.js

js2.js

31 ms

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

68 ms

Windcave-Red-Logo-Horizontal.svg

Windcave-Red-Logo-Horizontal.svg

120 ms

Home_Page.png

Home_Page.png

20 ms

Solutions_Home_Page.png

Solutions_Home_Page.png

19 ms

Features_Home_Page.png

Features_Home_Page.png

37 ms

Windcave_Integration_Home_Page.png

Windcave_Integration_Home_Page.png

29 ms

Windcave-White-Logo-Horizontal.svg

Windcave-White-Logo-Horizontal.svg

66 ms

X_Twitter-red.svg

X_Twitter-red.svg

89 ms

linkedin-red.svg

linkedin-red.svg

209 ms

Roboto-Regular.ttf

Roboto-Regular.ttf

56 ms

Roboto-Light.ttf

Roboto-Light.ttf

187 ms

Accessibility Review

paymentexpress.ie accessibility score

93

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

paymentexpress.ie 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

paymentexpress.ie SEO score

94

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

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 Paymentexpress.ie 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 Paymentexpress.ie 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

paymentexpress.ie

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