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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

mefa.org

Student Loans and Guidance on Ways to Pay for College

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

741 ms

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About Website

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

MEFA offers education programs on planning and paying for college, tax-advantaged savings plans, fixed-rate loans and expert guidance

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mefa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mefa.org performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mefa.org

50 ms

www.mefa.org

947 ms

gtm.js

181 ms

optimize.js

63 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Mefa.org, 10% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Js.ewsapi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (947 ms) belongs to the original domain Mefa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 524.4 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Mefa.org main page is 1.6 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 872.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 428.2 kB

  • Original 517.4 kB
  • After minification 508.0 kB
  • After compression 89.2 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 428.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 67.6 kB

  • Original 872.5 kB
  • After minification 804.9 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. Mefa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 171.5 kB
  • After minification 171.5 kB
  • After compression 142.9 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 28.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (56%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mefa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mefa.org

mefa.org

50 ms

www.mefa.org

www.mefa.org

947 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

181 ms

optimize.js

optimize.js

63 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

44 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

44 ms

lightbox.min.js

lightbox.min.js

42 ms

ie.mediaqueries.min.js

ie.mediaqueries.min.js

42 ms

compiled.min.js

compiled.min.js

15 ms

element.js

element.js

111 ms

mefa_logo.svg

mefa_logo.svg

78 ms

1607040004_1586293362_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Savings-2.png

1607040004_1586293362_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Savings-2.png

163 ms

1607040055_1586293367_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Loan-2.png

1607040055_1586293367_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Loan-2.png

163 ms

1586293440_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Tools-2.png

1586293440_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Tools-2.png

207 ms

1586293374_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Plan-2.png

1586293374_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Plan-2.png

177 ms

1607039896_1586293384_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Guidance-2.png

1607039896_1586293384_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Guidance-2.png

208 ms

1586293424_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Refinance-2.png

1586293424_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Refinance-2.png

169 ms

1704467443_mefa-home-refinance-student-loans.jpg

1704467443_mefa-home-refinance-student-loans.jpg

216 ms

1586293445_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Guidance-2.png

1586293445_Mefa%20Icons_HP-Guidance-2.png

177 ms

351316_thinkstockphotos-91783012.jpg

351316_thinkstockphotos-91783012.jpg

700 ms

998345_istock-1169086299.jpg

998345_istock-1169086299.jpg

700 ms

309208_istock-1146172804.jpg

309208_istock-1146172804.jpg

702 ms

x-logo-twitter.svg

x-logo-twitter.svg

514 ms

mefa_footer_logo.svg

mefa_footer_logo.svg

512 ms

close-white.png

close-white.png

98 ms

1587061568_mefa-covid-19-header.jpg

1587061568_mefa-covid-19-header.jpg

640 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

87 ms

black.png

black.png

93 ms

effra_std_rg-webfont.woff

effra_std_rg-webfont.woff

635 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

665 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

682 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

680 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

662 ms

js

js

101 ms

destination

destination

376 ms

bat.js

bat.js

572 ms

destination

destination

374 ms

686336tc69355.js

686336tc69355.js

585 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

529 ms

aquant.js

aquant.js

567 ms

js

js

369 ms

js

js

367 ms

hotjar-1357390.js

hotjar-1357390.js

616 ms

events.js

events.js

590 ms

pixie.js

pixie.js

579 ms

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activityi;src=4041606;type=Homep0;cat=MEFAH0;ord=1;num=7900486394158;npa=0;auiddc=1079748049.1715741332;pscdl=noapi;frm=0;gtm=45fe45d0z876768918za201;gcd=13l3l3l3l1;dma=0;epver=2;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mefa.org%2F

266 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

147 ms

tp

tp

26 ms

saq_pxl

saq_pxl

18 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

modules.e5979922753cf3b8b069.js

modules.e5979922753cf3b8b069.js

14 ms

collect

collect

48 ms

nsjs

nsjs

105 ms

seg

seg

73 ms

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src=4041606;type=Homep0;cat=MEFAH0;ord=1;num=7900486394158;npa=0;auiddc=*;pscdl=noapi;frm=0;gtm=45fe45d0z876768918za201;gcd=13l3l3l3l1;dma=0;epver=2;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mefa.org%2F

106 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

79 ms

iui3

iui3

22 ms

nsjs

nsjs

64 ms

multiCompanyEngagement.min.js

multiCompanyEngagement.min.js

20 ms

src=6832501;type=invmedia;cat=wi9bzeyi;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=1

src=6832501;type=invmedia;cat=wi9bzeyi;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=1

64 ms

pixel

pixel

30 ms

spp.pl

spp.pl

13 ms

quant.js

quant.js

2 ms

Accessibility Review

mefa.org 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

mefa.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mefa.org SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mefa.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 Mefa.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

mefa.org

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