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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

gradloans.com

Student Loan Options for Graduate School | Edvisors

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

876 ms

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About Website

Welcome to gradloans.com homepage info - get ready to check Grad Loan S best content right away, or after learning these important things about gradloans.com

Graduate students can borrow federal and private student loans. Federal student loans include Direct Unsubsidized Loans and Grad PLUS Loans. Private student loans are also available and may offer more...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gradloans.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gradloans.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gradloans.com

44 ms

1269 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

43 ms

js

34 ms

edv-legacy.webpack.min.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gradloans.com, 70% (31 requests) were made to Edvisors.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Edvisors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 403.3 kB (41%)

Content Size

993.8 kB

After Optimization

590.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gradloans.com main page is 993.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 378.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 234.7 kB

  • Original 273.2 kB
  • After minification 213.9 kB
  • After compression 38.5 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 59.3 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 234.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 643 B

  • Original 176.3 kB
  • After minification 175.7 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. Grad Loan S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 105.3 kB

  • Original 378.5 kB
  • After minification 378.5 kB
  • After compression 273.2 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 105.3 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 62.7 kB

  • Original 165.8 kB
  • After minification 165.8 kB
  • After compression 103.1 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. Gradloans.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 62.7 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (24%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grad Loan S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gradloans.com

gradloans.com

44 ms

1269 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

VisitorIdentification.js

43 ms

js

js

34 ms

edv-legacy.webpack.min.css

edv-legacy.webpack.min.css

33 ms

edv.webpack.min.css

edv.webpack.min.css

78 ms

sentry.bundle.5.20.1.min.js

sentry.bundle.5.20.1.min.js

76 ms

edvisors-logo.svg

edvisors-logo.svg

209 ms

header-edvisors-print-logo.png

header-edvisors-print-logo.png

209 ms

logo_green_rgb.png

logo_green_rgb.png

113 ms

1125 ms

refi-lender-college-ave.png

refi-lender-college-ave.png

207 ms

edvisors-1000-college-scholarship-300x250.png

edvisors-1000-college-scholarship-300x250.png

238 ms

js

js

47 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

89 ms

js

js

100 ms

logo-sallie-mae-160x74.png

logo-sallie-mae-160x74.png

282 ms

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student-loan-repayment-scholarship-edv-400x400.jpg

422 ms

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cheese-ad-300x250.png

246 ms

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self-ad-300x250.png

248 ms

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578 ms

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334 ms

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ark7-ad-300x250.png

341 ms

lifelock-ad-300x250.jpg

lifelock-ad-300x250.jpg

374 ms

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elaine-rubin.png

657 ms

sallie-mae-logo-130x78.png

sallie-mae-logo-130x78.png

436 ms

logo-college-ave.png

logo-college-ave.png

582 ms

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ascent_stacked_non-cosigned_cosigned---160x108.png

688 ms

logo-sofi-186x90.jpg

logo-sofi-186x90.jpg

464 ms

elfi-logo.png

elfi-logo.png

696 ms

js

js

79 ms

edv-legacy.webpack.min.js

edv-legacy.webpack.min.js

429 ms

edv-vendor.webpack.min.js

edv-vendor.webpack.min.js

488 ms

edv.webpack.min.js

edv.webpack.min.js

490 ms

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vedd3670a3b1c4e178fdfb0cc912d969e1713874337387

81 ms

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privacyoptions29x14.png

541 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

544 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

collect

collect

19 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

collect

collect

18 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

78 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

73 ms

edv-print.webpack.min.css

edv-print.webpack.min.css

28 ms

Accessibility Review

gradloans.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

gradloans.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gradloans.com SEO score

84

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

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 Gradloans.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 Gradloans.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

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