Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

finaid.gfcmsu.edu

Financial Aid | Great Falls College MSU

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

407 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

finaid.gfcmsu.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Finaid.gfcmsu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 407 ms and then it took 1.6 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

finaid.gfcmsu.edu performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.538

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

finaid.gfcmsu.edu

407 ms

css

25 ms

styles.css

547 ms

gfcmsu.css

189 ms

jquery.min.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Finaid.gfcmsu.edu, 30% (14 requests) were made to Gfcmsu.edu and 11% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (623 ms) relates to the external source Gfcmsu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 480.7 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

716.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Finaid.gfcmsu.edu main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 619.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 40.9 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 32.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 619.2 kB
  • After minification 570.0 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. Fin Aid Gfc MSU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 106.5 kB

  • Original 209.2 kB
  • After minification 209.1 kB
  • After compression 102.7 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 106.5 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 292.8 kB

  • Original 327.4 kB
  • After minification 189.4 kB
  • After compression 34.6 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. Finaid.gfcmsu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 292.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (34%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fin Aid Gfc MSU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

finaid.gfcmsu.edu accessibility score

93

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

finaid.gfcmsu.edu 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

finaid.gfcmsu.edu SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Finaid.gfcmsu.edu 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 Finaid.gfcmsu.edu 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 description is not detected on the main page of Fin Aid Gfc MSU. 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: