Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% 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

paystack.com

Paystack - Modern online and offline payments for Africa

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

436 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

997 ms

paystack.com screenshot

About Website

Visit paystack.com now to see the best up-to-date Paystack content for Nigeria and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about paystack.com

Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paystack.com page load time and found that the first response time was 436 ms and then it took 2.6 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

paystack.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,130 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paystack.com

436 ms

main.css

9 ms

email-decode.min.js

111 ms

animate.min.js

112 ms

home-animation.js

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Paystack.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Djtflbt20bdde.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (914 ms) belongs to the original domain Paystack.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 318.6 kB (69%)

Content Size

460.6 kB

After Optimization

142.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Paystack.com main page is 460.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 374.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 40.2 kB

  • Original 47.3 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 10.2 kB, which is 22% 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 40.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 253.4 kB

  • Original 374.3 kB
  • After minification 371.9 kB
  • After compression 121.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 253.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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. Paystack.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (33%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Paystack. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

paystack.com 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.

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

paystack.com 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

SEO Factors

paystack.com 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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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