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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

studentloansforcollege.org

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Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

885 ms

Page Rendered

416 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentloansforcollege.org page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studentloansforcollege.org performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studentloansforcollege.org

50 ms

collegewhale.com

281 ms

bootstrap.min.css

290 ms

font-awesome.min.css

246 ms

flexslider.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Studentloansforcollege.org, 61% (25 requests) were made to Collegewhale.com and 24% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (411 ms) relates to the external source Collegewhale.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

355.9 kB

After Optimization

315.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studentloansforcollege.org main page is 355.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 204.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. 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 19.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 204.2 kB
  • After minification 187.7 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. Studentloansfor College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 97.3 kB
  • After minification 97.3 kB
  • After compression 94.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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. Studentloansforcollege.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (68%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Studentloansfor College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

studentloansforcollege.org accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Best Practices

studentloansforcollege.org best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

studentloansforcollege.org SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Studentloansforcollege.org 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 Studentloansforcollege.org 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 Studentloansfor College. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: