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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% 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

secure.nelnet.net

Welcome to Nelnet, a Student Loan Servicing Company

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

189 ms

Resources Loaded

861 ms

Page Rendered

162 ms

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About Website

Visit secure.nelnet.net now to see the best up-to-date Secure Nelnet content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about secure.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 Secure.nelnet.net page load time and found that the first response time was 189 ms and then it took 1 sec 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

secure.nelnet.net performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nelnet.com

189 ms

styles.css

71 ms

css2

34 ms

gtm.js

52 ms

logo-nelnet.svg

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Secure.nelnet.net, 10% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 10% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (313 ms) relates to the external source Nelnet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

51.0 kB

After Optimization

42.4 kB

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Secure.nelnet.net main page is 51.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 39.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 3.7 kB, which is 34% 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 8.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

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. Secure.nelnet.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Secure Nelnet. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

nelnet.com

nelnet.com

189 ms

styles.css

styles.css

71 ms

css2

css2

34 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

52 ms

logo-nelnet.svg

logo-nelnet.svg

35 ms

icon-exclamation.svg

icon-exclamation.svg

68 ms

nelnet-fsa-cobrand.svg

nelnet-fsa-cobrand.svg

102 ms

sloan-full-color.svg

sloan-full-color.svg

110 ms

icon-circle-n.svg

icon-circle-n.svg

118 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

313 ms

Accessibility Review

secure.nelnet.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

secure.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

secure.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 Secure.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 Secure.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

secure.nelnet.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Secure 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: