Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

paypal.uk

PayPal Account | Mobile Wallet and More | PayPal UK

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

545 ms

paypal.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit paypal.uk now to see the best up-to-date Pay Pal content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about paypal.uk

Use your PayPal account to spend, send, and manage your money. Or, create a merchant account for your business. And so much more. Discover the details here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paypal.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

paypal.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,620 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paypal.uk

168 ms

home

787 ms

ngrlCaptcha.min.js

20 ms

390ab4c1e64ffbafa4a942208ad1eddee6ceb4.css

33 ms

main-e2c3b1d3.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Paypal.uk, 71% (17 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 13% (3 requests) were made to Paypal.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (787 ms) relates to the external source Paypal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 173.0 kB (33%)

Content Size

528.3 kB

After Optimization

355.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Paypal.uk main page is 528.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 211.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 171.9 kB

  • Original 211.7 kB
  • After minification 211.6 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. 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 171.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 210 B

  • Original 187.2 kB
  • After minification 187.2 kB
  • After compression 187.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 925 B

  • Original 129.3 kB
  • After minification 129.3 kB
  • After compression 128.4 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. Paypal.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (55%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pay Pal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

paypal.uk accessibility score

90

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

paypal.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

paypal.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Paypal.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 Paypal.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 data is detected on the main page of Pay Pal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: