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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

chesla.org

CHESLA | Financing Your Future Begins Here

Page Load Speed

955 ms in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

720 ms

Page Rendered

181 ms

chesla.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing CHESLA content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about chesla.org

CHESLA provides financing, information and tools for students and families to make informed decisions about paying for higher education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chesla.org page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 901 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chesla.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.418

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chesla.org

54 ms

css

33 ms

trp-floater-language-switcher.css

14 ms

trp-language-switcher.css

23 ms

front-91dfe18c.min.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Chesla.org, 11% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Collector-16224.us.tvsquared.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (312 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.userway.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.6 kB (37%)

Content Size

237.3 kB

After Optimization

148.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Chesla.org main page is 237.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 105.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 83.1 kB

  • Original 105.3 kB
  • After minification 100.9 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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 83.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 69.4 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. CHESLA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 369 B

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 57.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (73%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CHESLA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chesla.org

chesla.org

54 ms

css

css

33 ms

trp-floater-language-switcher.css

trp-floater-language-switcher.css

14 ms

trp-language-switcher.css

trp-language-switcher.css

23 ms

front-91dfe18c.min.css

front-91dfe18c.min.css

27 ms

style-static.min.css

style-static.min.css

54 ms

style.css

style.css

27 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

39 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

28 ms

app.js

app.js

29 ms

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

35 ms

c3ef7cae5f.js

c3ef7cae5f.js

112 ms

widget.js

widget.js

33 ms

et-core-unified-9.min.css

et-core-unified-9.min.css

35 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

33 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

37 ms

TimelineMax.min.js

TimelineMax.min.js

40 ms

TweenMax.min.js

TweenMax.min.js

103 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

104 ms

front-91dfe18c.min.js

front-91dfe18c.min.js

42 ms

front-e4622e1b.min.js

front-e4622e1b.min.js

44 ms

front-9d87c420.min.js

front-9d87c420.min.js

48 ms

front-1d58e40a.min.js

front-1d58e40a.min.js

102 ms

front-ef9b14c7.min.js

front-ef9b14c7.min.js

103 ms

front-aef08774.min.js

front-aef08774.min.js

103 ms

front-91961416.min.js

front-91961416.min.js

103 ms

front-84b834a8.min.js

front-84b834a8.min.js

103 ms

common.js

common.js

103 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

105 ms

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

103 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.js

wp-mediaelement.min.js

104 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

104 ms

easypiechart.js

easypiechart.js

103 ms

salvattore.js

salvattore.js

104 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

104 ms

tv2track.js

tv2track.js

260 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

215 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

259 ms

chesla-logo-tagline-200px.png

chesla-logo-tagline-200px.png

172 ms

student-loan-icon.png

student-loan-icon.png

188 ms

refi-icon.png

refi-icon.png

173 ms

scholarship-icon.png

scholarship-icon.png

188 ms

outreach-icon.png

outreach-icon.png

172 ms

en_US.png

en_US.png

171 ms

widget_app_base_1722425342139.js

widget_app_base_1722425342139.js

312 ms

6xK3dSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3qNq7j.woff

6xK3dSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3qNq7j.woff

52 ms

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3ik4zwmRdo.woff

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3ik4zwmRdo.woff

74 ms

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3i94_wmRdo.woff

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3i94_wmRdo.woff

83 ms

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3i54rwmRdo.woff

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3i54rwmRdo.woff

84 ms

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3ig4vwmRdo.woff

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3ig4vwmRdo.woff

83 ms

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3iu4nwmRdo.woff

6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3iu4nwmRdo.woff

84 ms

modules.woff

modules.woff

50 ms

1color-logo-white.png

1color-logo-white.png

50 ms

chesla-logo-tagline-280px-white.png

chesla-logo-tagline-280px-white.png

50 ms

es_ES.png

es_ES.png

50 ms

pt_BR.png

pt_BR.png

73 ms

tv2track.php

tv2track.php

15 ms

Accessibility Review

chesla.org accessibility score

87

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

chesla.org 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

chesla.org SEO score

90

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Chesla.org 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 Chesla.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

chesla.org

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