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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

edvisor.com

Edvisors: Financial Aid, Student Loans and College Scholarships

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

626 ms

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About Website

Welcome to edvisor.com homepage info - get ready to check Edvisor best content right away, or after learning these important things about edvisor.com

Edvisors provides financial solutions for young adults including expert advice on planning and paying for college. Easily compare student loan lenders, learn how to apply for financial aid, manage you...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Edvisor.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

edvisor.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

edvisor.com

42 ms

www.edvisors.com

843 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

46 ms

js

150 ms

edv.min.css

366 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Edvisor.com, 59% (32 requests) were made to Edvisors.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Edvisors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.4 kB (39%)

Content Size

489.0 kB

After Optimization

300.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Edvisor.com main page is 489.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 147.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 121.3 kB

  • Original 142.8 kB
  • After minification 107.3 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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 35.5 kB, which is 25% 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 121.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 114.2 kB
  • After minification 114.2 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. Edvisor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 84.4 kB
  • After compression 73.6 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 10.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 147.6 kB
  • After minification 147.6 kB
  • After compression 91.2 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. Edvisor.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.3 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (33%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Edvisor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

edvisor.com

edvisor.com

42 ms

www.edvisors.com

www.edvisors.com

843 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

VisitorIdentification.js

46 ms

js

js

150 ms

edv.min.css

edv.min.css

366 ms

sentry.bundle.5.20.1.min.js

sentry.bundle.5.20.1.min.js

43 ms

edv-loader.js

edv-loader.js

51 ms

v652eace1692a40cfa3763df669d7439c1639079717194

v652eace1692a40cfa3763df669d7439c1639079717194

498 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

532 ms

js

js

342 ms

edvisors-logo.svg

edvisors-logo.svg

451 ms

header-edvisors-print-logo.png

header-edvisors-print-logo.png

423 ms

is-banner-ad-1.png

is-banner-ad-1.png

423 ms

refi-lender-college-ave.png

refi-lender-college-ave.png

424 ms

sp-banner-2-edv2.png

sp-banner-2-edv2.png

650 ms

college-ave-student-loan-logo-140x40.png

college-ave-student-loan-logo-140x40.png

559 ms

sm_primary_logo_200x290.png

sm_primary_logo_200x290.png

704 ms

ascent-cosigned-and-non-cosigned-student-loans-160x112.png

ascent-cosigned-and-non-cosigned-student-loans-160x112.png

743 ms

logo-earnest-259x80.png

logo-earnest-259x80.png

740 ms

edv-icon-psls.svg

edv-icon-psls.svg

740 ms

edv-icon-refinance.svg

edv-icon-refinance.svg

843 ms

edv-icon-college.svg

edv-icon-college.svg

940 ms

edv-icon-finaid.svg

edv-icon-finaid.svg

995 ms

edv-icon-scholarships.svg

edv-icon-scholarships.svg

1024 ms

private-student-loans.jpg

private-student-loans.jpg

1175 ms

refinance-student-loans.jpg

refinance-student-loans.jpg

1100 ms

scholarships.jpg

scholarships.jpg

1194 ms

icon-header.svg

icon-header.svg

954 ms

icon-cta.svg

icon-cta.svg

969 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

1266 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

1422 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

1282 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

1220 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

853 ms

js

js

24 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

collect

collect

29 ms

collect

collect

96 ms

collect

collect

87 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

89 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

112 ms

edv-vendor.min.js

edv-vendor.min.js

972 ms

edv.min.js

edv.min.js

468 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

39 ms

edv-print.min.css

edv-print.min.css

293 ms

tfa.js

tfa.js

56 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

102 ms

hotjar-407623.js

hotjar-407623.js

122 ms

json

json

73 ms

67 ms

modules.cbd9768ba80ba0be5b17.js

modules.cbd9768ba80ba0be5b17.js

19 ms

cds-pips.js

cds-pips.js

4 ms

box-69edcc3187336f9b0a3fbb4c73be9fe6.html

box-69edcc3187336f9b0a3fbb4c73be9fe6.html

21 ms

19 ms

Accessibility Review

edvisor.com accessibility score

97

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.

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

edvisor.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

edvisor.com SEO score

86

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

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 Edvisor.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 Edvisor.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

edvisor.com

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