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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

nelliemae.com

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Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

601 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nelliemae.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nelliemae.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nelliemae.com

47 ms

45 ms

gely-In-there-cause-There-embrangers-Againt-Scho

15 ms

otSDKStub.js

86 ms

utag.sync.js

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nelliemae.com, 86% (37 requests) were made to Salliemae.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (461 ms) relates to the external source Salliemae.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 168.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

633.7 kB

After Optimization

465.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Nelliemae.com main page is 633.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 244.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 168.0 kB

  • Original 190.8 kB
  • After minification 130.0 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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 60.8 kB, which is 32% 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 168.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 198.4 kB
  • After minification 198.4 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. Nelliemae images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 211 B

  • Original 244.5 kB
  • After minification 244.5 kB
  • After compression 244.3 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 14 (39%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nelliemae. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nelliemae.com

nelliemae.com

47 ms

45 ms

gely-In-there-cause-There-embrangers-Againt-Scho

gely-In-there-cause-There-embrangers-Againt-Scho

15 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

86 ms

utag.sync.js

utag.sync.js

89 ms

clientlib-dependencies.min.js

clientlib-dependencies.min.js

461 ms

clientlib-site.min.js

clientlib-site.min.js

75 ms

container.min.js

container.min.js

71 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

71 ms

imageDynamicMedia.min.js

imageDynamicMedia.min.js

99 ms

clientlib-base.min.js

clientlib-base.min.js

74 ms

clientlib-site-leg.min.js

clientlib-site-leg.min.js

208 ms

clientlib-base.min.css

clientlib-base.min.css

80 ms

clientlib-site.min.css

clientlib-site.min.css

103 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

128 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

97 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

203 ms

d3e20d65-c19f-44eb-9781-984b078428df.json

d3e20d65-c19f-44eb-9781-984b078428df.json

120 ms

logo-desktop.svg

logo-desktop.svg

240 ms

icon-close.svg

icon-close.svg

250 ms

chevron.svg

chevron.svg

236 ms

icon-log-in.svg

icon-log-in.svg

237 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

251 ms

icon-hamburger.svg

icon-hamburger.svg

238 ms

photo_heroImage_loansLP_yellowBlueDuotone.jpg

photo_heroImage_loansLP_yellowBlueDuotone.jpg

241 ms

icons-social-facebook.svg

icons-social-facebook.svg

242 ms

icons-social-x.svg

icons-social-x.svg

240 ms

icons-social-instagram.svg

icons-social-instagram.svg

248 ms

icons-social-youtube.svg

icons-social-youtube.svg

247 ms

icons-social-linkedin.svg

icons-social-linkedin.svg

249 ms

icon-external-link-footer-white.svg

icon-external-link-footer-white.svg

256 ms

location

location

327 ms

icon_marketing_undergraduateLoan_accentCoral.svg

icon_marketing_undergraduateLoan_accentCoral.svg

54 ms

icon_marketing_careerTraining_accentCoral.svg

icon_marketing_careerTraining_accentCoral.svg

121 ms

icon_marketing_graduateLoan_accentCoral.svg

icon_marketing_graduateLoan_accentCoral.svg

50 ms

icon_BBB_vertical.svg

icon_BBB_vertical.svg

118 ms

Graphik-Regular.woff

Graphik-Regular.woff

103 ms

Graphik-Medium.woff

Graphik-Medium.woff

34 ms

Graphik-Semibold.woff

Graphik-Semibold.woff

98 ms

Graphik-Bold.woff

Graphik-Bold.woff

102 ms

Graphik-Light.woff

Graphik-Light.woff

103 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

101 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

121 ms

Accessibility Review

nelliemae.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

nelliemae.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nelliemae.com SEO score

92

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 Nelliemae.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 Nelliemae.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

nelliemae.com

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