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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

thesalliemaefund.org

Community Engagement | Sallie Mae

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

415 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesalliemaefund.org page load time and found that the first response time was 95 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 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesalliemaefund.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesalliemaefund.org

95 ms

www.salliemae.com

678 ms

global_framework_1.css

106 ms

default_styles_1.css

113 ms

sallie_mae_core_1.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thesalliemaefund.org, 46% (28 requests) were made to Salliemae.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Login.salliemae.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (678 ms) relates to the external source Salliemae.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (68%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

509.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesalliemaefund.org main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 948.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 68.5 kB
  • After minification 47.7 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 20.8 kB, which is 30% 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 59.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 169.4 kB
  • After minification 162.8 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. The Sallie Mae Fund images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 675.1 kB

  • Original 948.6 kB
  • After minification 831.8 kB
  • After compression 273.6 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 675.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 353.5 kB

  • Original 418.0 kB
  • After minification 377.4 kB
  • After compression 64.5 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. Thesalliemaefund.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 353.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (52%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sallie Mae Fund. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thesalliemaefund.org

thesalliemaefund.org

95 ms

www.salliemae.com

www.salliemae.com

678 ms

global_framework_1.css

global_framework_1.css

106 ms

default_styles_1.css

default_styles_1.css

113 ms

sallie_mae_core_1.css

sallie_mae_core_1.css

110 ms

hp_test_2.css

hp_test_2.css

82 ms

appmeasurement.js

appmeasurement.js

79 ms

csgather.js

csgather.js

54 ms

global_framework_1.js

global_framework_1.js

165 ms

sallie_mae_core_1.js

sallie_mae_core_1.js

53 ms

Salliemae_Live.js

Salliemae_Live.js

168 ms

content.js

content.js

62 ms

sallie-mae-logo.svg

sallie-mae-logo.svg

85 ms

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QcRuepzoDq0

313 ms

test_2_banner.jpg

test_2_banner.jpg

305 ms

BookIcon.png

BookIcon.png

280 ms

GradCapIcon.png

GradCapIcon.png

278 ms

angle_1.jpg

angle_1.jpg

277 ms

angle_2.jpg

angle_2.jpg

279 ms

angle_3.jpg

angle_3.jpg

278 ms

bbb_logo.png

bbb_logo.png

281 ms

sallie-mae-logo-footer.svg

sallie-mae-logo-footer.svg

282 ms

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sample.jpeg

249 ms

sourcesanspro-regular.svg

sourcesanspro-regular.svg

250 ms

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318 ms

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346 ms

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288 ms

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435 ms

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sourcesanspro-light.woff

295 ms

sourcesanspro-light.ttf

sourcesanspro-light.ttf

442 ms

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143 ms

sample.jpeg

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35 ms

oo_float_icon.gif

oo_float_icon.gif

182 ms

www-embed-player-vfl8xM8me.css

www-embed-player-vfl8xM8me.css

88 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

158 ms

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155 ms

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160 ms

quant.js

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164 ms

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163 ms

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70 ms

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ad_status.js

71 ms

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52 ms

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64 ms

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login.do

login.do

42 ms

17 ms

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all.css

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34 ms

calm.js

calm.js

61 ms

custom-form-elements.js

custom-form-elements.js

90 ms

jquery-1.4.1.min.js

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173 ms

Contextualhelp.js

Contextualhelp.js

95 ms

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88 ms

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spacer.gif

28 ms

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31 ms

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sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.svg

320 ms

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sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.ttf

343 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.ttf

343 ms

sourcesanspro-regular.svg

sourcesanspro-regular.svg

342 ms

sourcesanspro-regular.ttf

sourcesanspro-regular.ttf

380 ms

Accessibility Review

thesalliemaefund.org accessibility score

76

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

thesalliemaefund.org best practices score

62

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thesalliemaefund.org SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thesalliemaefund.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thesalliemaefund.org 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

thesalliemaefund.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Sallie Mae Fund. 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: