Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% 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

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

studentfinancehelp.org.uk

Student Finance Contact - 0843 504 9340 | UK Student Loan Help

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

428 ms

studentfinancehelp.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit studentfinancehelp.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Student Finance Help content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about studentfinancehelp.org.uk

If you are a new or existing student and need to speak to SLC regarding your application or account, find the right Student Finance Contact Number here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentfinancehelp.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 1.5 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

studentfinancehelp.org.uk performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studentfinancehelp.org.uk

182 ms

studentfinancehelp.org.uk

409 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

11 ms

style.min.css

22 ms

style.css

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Studentfinancehelp.org.uk, 23% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (409 ms) belongs to the original domain Studentfinancehelp.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

315.5 kB

After Optimization

291.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Studentfinancehelp.org.uk main page is 315.5 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. Javascripts take 158.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 22.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Obviously, Student Finance Help needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 129 B

  • Original 158.0 kB
  • After minification 158.0 kB
  • After compression 157.8 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 109 B

  • Original 119.7 kB
  • After minification 119.7 kB
  • After compression 119.6 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. Studentfinancehelp.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (79%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Finance Help. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

studentfinancehelp.org.uk accessibility score

86

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

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

studentfinancehelp.org.uk 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

studentfinancehelp.org.uk SEO score

80

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

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 Studentfinancehelp.org.uk 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 Studentfinancehelp.org.uk 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

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