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studentaidplus.com

StudentAidPlus | Making Scholarships Easy

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

223 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

124 ms

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About Website

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StudentAidPlus.com helps you search and apply for scholarships to pay for college and student loans all in one place.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentaidplus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 223 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studentaidplus.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

studentaidplus.com

223 ms

studentaidplus.com

373 ms

imageSwap.js

294 ms

layoutcontainer.css

387 ms

theme.css

387 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Studentaidplus.com, 17% (4 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to B6.caspio.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) belongs to the original domain Studentaidplus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 551.2 kB (64%)

Content Size

858.2 kB

After Optimization

307.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Studentaidplus.com main page is 858.2 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 649.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 129.7 kB
  • After minification 129.1 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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 98.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 57.0 kB
  • After minification 52.2 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. Student Aid Plus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 430.3 kB

  • Original 649.7 kB
  • After minification 649.6 kB
  • After compression 219.4 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 430.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 16.8 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Studentaidplus.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (45%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Aid Plus. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

studentaidplus.com SEO score

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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 Studentaidplus.com 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 Studentaidplus.com 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 Aid Plus. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: