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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

20 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Refinancestudent.loan page load time and found that the first response time was 20 ms and then it took 2.8 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

refinancestudent.loan performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,450 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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20 ms

44 ms

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22 ms

all.css

65 ms

v4-shims.css

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Refinancestudent.loan, 83% (48 requests) were made to Thecollegeinvestor.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Thecollegeinvestor.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 775.6 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

522.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Refinancestudent.loan main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 781.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 681.1 kB

  • Original 781.6 kB
  • After minification 779.5 kB
  • After compression 100.5 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. 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 681.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 152.6 kB
  • After minification 144.4 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. Refinance Student images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 252.6 kB
  • After minification 252.6 kB
  • After compression 217.1 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 35.4 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 50.8 kB

  • Original 111.2 kB
  • After minification 71.0 kB
  • After compression 60.3 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. Refinancestudent.loan needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.8 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (62%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Refinance Student. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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22 ms

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all.css

65 ms

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81 ms

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34 ms

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34 ms

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41 ms

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54 ms

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1039 ms

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34 ms

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37 ms

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40 ms

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Accessibility Review

refinancestudent.loan accessibility score

86

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

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

refinancestudent.loan 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

refinancestudent.loan SEO score

85

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 Refinancestudent.loan 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 Refinancestudent.loan 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 Refinance Student. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: