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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

nelnet.net

Welcome to Nelnet, a Student Loan Servicing Company

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

143 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Nelnet content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nelnet.net

Welcome to Nelnet.com. As your student loan servicer, we’re here to make the repayment process as simple as possible.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nelnet.net page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nelnet.net performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nelnet.net

156 ms

nelnet.com

181 ms

styles.css

67 ms

css2

67 ms

gtm.js

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nelnet.net, 50% (8 requests) were made to Nelnet.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (482 ms) relates to the external source Nelnet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

72.5 kB

After Optimization

63.6 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nelnet.net main page is 72.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 39.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 11.6 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 3.6 kB, which is 31% 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 8.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 39.9 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. Nelnet.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (31%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nelnet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nelnet.net

nelnet.net

156 ms

nelnet.com

nelnet.com

181 ms

styles.css

styles.css

67 ms

css2

css2

67 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

56 ms

logo-nelnet.svg

logo-nelnet.svg

34 ms

icon-exclamation.svg

icon-exclamation.svg

91 ms

nelnet-fsa-cobrand.svg

nelnet-fsa-cobrand.svg

160 ms

sloan-full-color.svg

sloan-full-color.svg

157 ms

icon-circle-n.svg

icon-circle-n.svg

192 ms

js

js

78 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

45 ms

hotjar-1198192.js

hotjar-1198192.js

188 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

482 ms

collect

collect

123 ms

modules.842bcec28f9fd12bb79e.js

modules.842bcec28f9fd12bb79e.js

14 ms

Accessibility Review

nelnet.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nelnet.net best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

nelnet.net SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nelnet.net 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 Nelnet.net 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

nelnet.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nelnet. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: