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payu.co.za

Financial Services Solutions for High Growth Markets | PayU South Africa

Page Load Speed

11.4 sec in total

First Response

3.1 sec

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

383 ms

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About Website

Visit payu.co.za now to see the best up-to-date PayU content for Nigeria and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about payu.co.za

PayU develops innovative financial services solutions for high-growth markets across Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Payu.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.1 sec and then it took 8.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

payu.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

payu.co.za

3093 ms

system.base.css

770 ms

system.menus.css

772 ms

system.messages.css

770 ms

system.theme.css

772 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Payu.co.za, 35% (34 requests) were made to Static.payu.co.za and 2% (2 requests) were made to Platform.linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Payu.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 514.5 kB (56%)

Content Size

915.2 kB

After Optimization

400.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Payu.co.za main page is 915.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 434.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

  • Original 58.0 kB
  • After minification 53.4 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 47.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 227.2 kB
  • After minification 210.5 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. PayU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 284.6 kB

  • Original 434.1 kB
  • After minification 353.0 kB
  • After compression 149.4 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 284.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 165.4 kB

  • Original 195.9 kB
  • After minification 180.2 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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. Payu.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 165.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (68%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PayU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

payu.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Payu.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Payu.co.za 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 description is not detected on the main page of PayU. 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: