Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

simplepayroll.com

eSMART Simple Payroll Service - Complete online business payroll software service

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

249 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

109 ms

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About Website

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eSMART Simple Payroll - Online Payroll Services - secure web payroll software solution for small business, enterprise and household payroll processing, outsourcing and management, including paychecks ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simplepayroll.com page load time and found that the first response time was 249 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 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

simplepayroll.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.simplepayroll.com

249 ms

Default.aspx

423 ms

menu.js

89 ms

eSmart.css

179 ms

seal.js

313 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Simplepayroll.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Sealserver.trustwave.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Securitymetrics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (423 ms) belongs to the original domain Simplepayroll.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.7 kB (60%)

Content Size

121.9 kB

After Optimization

49.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Simplepayroll.com main page is 121.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 47.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 5.4 kB, which is 23% 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 18.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 47.3 kB
  • After minification 34.3 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. Obviously, Simple Payroll needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.0 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 47.6 kB
  • After minification 37.6 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 37.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 812 B

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. Simplepayroll.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (52%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Simple Payroll. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

simplepayroll.com accessibility score

49

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

simplepayroll.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

simplepayroll.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Simplepayroll.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Simplepayroll.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 description is not detected on the main page of Simple Payroll. 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: