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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

nelnet.com

Welcome to Nelnet, a Student Loan Servicing Company

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

151 ms

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About Website

Welcome to nelnet.com homepage info - get ready to check Nelnet best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about nelnet.com

Welcome to Nelnet.com. As your student loan servicer, we’re here to make the repayment process as simple as possible.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nelnet.com page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nelnet.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,500 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.nelnet.com

81 ms

home.aspx

181 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

173 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

352 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Nelnet.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Static.hotjar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (369 ms) belongs to the original domain Nelnet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (74%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

386.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nelnet.com main page is 1.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 36.0 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 30.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 119.7 kB
  • After minification 95.8 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. Obviously, Nelnet needs image optimization as it can save up to 23.9 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 946.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 261.3 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 946.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 86.0 kB

  • Original 105.6 kB
  • After minification 103.2 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. Nelnet.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 86.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (63%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nelnet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.nelnet.com

www.nelnet.com

81 ms

home.aspx

home.aspx

181 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

173 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

ektron.javascript.ashx

352 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

108 ms

style.css

style.css

181 ms

custom.css

custom.css

105 ms

modernizr-1.7.min.js

modernizr-1.7.min.js

139 ms

jquery.plugins.js

jquery.plugins.js

181 ms

functions.js

functions.js

181 ms

extend.js

extend.js

181 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

210 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

210 ms

socialbar.js

socialbar.js

216 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

248 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

214 ms

js

js

245 ms

ableplayer.min.css

ableplayer.min.css

71 ms

hotjar-47845.js

hotjar-47845.js

22 ms

repeats.png

repeats.png

52 ms

nelnet.png

nelnet.png

51 ms

email.gif

email.gif

77 ms

digg.gif

digg.gif

52 ms

delicious.gif

delicious.gif

51 ms

print.gif

print.gif

52 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

132 ms

FaceBook.png

FaceBook.png

133 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

123 ms

modules-1f5c71aea63f8df71401422ed80fbe5f.js

modules-1f5c71aea63f8df71401422ed80fbe5f.js

91 ms

ufi-split-banner-bg.jpg

ufi-split-banner-bg.jpg

92 ms

tax-split-banner-bg-2.jpg

tax-split-banner-bg-2.jpg

96 ms

tpd-icon.png

tpd-icon.png

92 ms

money-icon-up-bg.png

money-icon-up-bg.png

95 ms

money-icon-bg.png

money-icon-bg.png

143 ms

calendar-money-bg.png

calendar-money-bg.png

143 ms

money-icon-lower-bg.png

money-icon-lower-bg.png

141 ms

circle-n-bg.png

circle-n-bg.png

143 ms

exo-light-webfont.woff

exo-light-webfont.woff

203 ms

exo-regular-webfont.woff

exo-regular-webfont.woff

151 ms

exo-medium-webfont.woff

exo-medium-webfont.woff

139 ms

exo-semibold-webfont.woff

exo-semibold-webfont.woff

171 ms

ga.js

ga.js

63 ms

GetJsonSearchResults

GetJsonSearchResults

342 ms

lenderschools.js

lenderschools.js

369 ms

loading_small.gif

loading_small.gif

79 ms

jquery-ui-min.js

jquery-ui-min.js

186 ms

jquery-ui-compressed.css

jquery-ui-compressed.css

130 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

16 ms

jquery-ui-min.js

jquery-ui-min.js

213 ms

Accessibility Review

nelnet.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nelnet.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nelnet.com SEO score

90

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

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 Nelnet.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 Nelnet.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

nelnet.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nelnet. 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: