Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

paypal.us

Digital Wallets, Money Management, and More | PayPal US

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

383 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

300 ms

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About Website

Welcome to paypal.us homepage info - get ready to check Pay Pal best content right away, or after learning these important things about paypal.us

PayPal is the faster, safer way to send and receive money or make an online payment. Get started or create a merchant account to accept payments.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paypal.us page load time and found that the first response time was 383 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

paypal.us performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

383 ms

cdd23bc1cbb07b2b7e061c430ae1c83a374e59.css

207 ms

4537b943e56aba1edfa2ff5720623338947581.js

288 ms

bs.js

177 ms

11a197093bb1d28214081ed840ace487846a9f.js

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Paypal.us, 4% (1 request) were made to Paypal.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (383 ms) relates to the external source Paypal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 908.1 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

607.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Paypal.us main page is 1.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 787.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 136.2 kB
  • After minification 129.7 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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. 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 100.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 341.7 kB
  • After minification 312.0 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. Pay Pal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 559.0 kB

  • Original 787.3 kB
  • After minification 706.2 kB
  • After compression 228.4 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 559.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 218.9 kB

  • Original 250.2 kB
  • After minification 202.5 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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. Paypal.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 218.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (67%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 18 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

paypal.us 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.

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

Best Practices

paypal.us 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

paypal.us SEO score

86

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

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.us 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.us 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: