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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

payrollguru.com

PayrollGuru - Mobile payroll applications and payroll services

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

284 ms

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About Website

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PayrollGuru provides mobile paycheck calculators, payroll tax info, payroll service, mobile payroll apps

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Key Findings

We analyzed Payrollguru.com page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 1.6 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

payrollguru.com performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

payrollguru.com

148 ms

js

61 ms

style.css

74 ms

cusel.css

139 ms

jquery-1.6.2.min.js

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Payrollguru.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (468 ms) belongs to the original domain Payrollguru.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 215.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Payrollguru.com main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 35.8 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 5.1 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 28.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 97.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Payroll Guru images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 69.7 kB

  • Original 106.5 kB
  • After minification 106.5 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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 69.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 21.6 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. Payrollguru.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

82

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Payroll Guru. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

payrollguru.com

payrollguru.com

148 ms

js

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61 ms

style.css

style.css

74 ms

cusel.css

cusel.css

139 ms

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195 ms

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132 ms

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68 ms

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69 ms

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69 ms

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Accessibility Review

payrollguru.com accessibility score

67

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

payrollguru.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

SEO Factors

payrollguru.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Payrollguru.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 Payrollguru.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

payrollguru.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Payroll Guru. 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: