Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

slfinance.org

Student Loan Assistance and Forgiveness Programs | SL Finance

Page Load Speed

888 ms in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

593 ms

Page Rendered

266 ms

slfinance.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing SL Finance content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about slfinance.org

SL Finance can help you apply for Federal Student Loans, Student Loan Forgiveness Programs, and Loan Consolidations that are available via the Department of Education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Slfinance.org page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 859 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

slfinance.org performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

slfinance.org

29 ms

231 ms

autoptimize_b95dab9363bb317ba50d259640de7c3f.css

26 ms

css

15 ms

font-awesome.min.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Slfinance.org, 54% (14 requests) were made to Regulatoryresolutions.com and 19% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (231 ms) relates to the external source Regulatoryresolutions.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Slfinance.org main page is 2.0 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 30.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 129.7 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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. SL Finance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 105.8 kB
  • After minification 104.5 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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 24.4 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 18.4 kB
  • After minification 18.4 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. Slfinance.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (56%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SL Finance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

slfinance.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

slfinance.org best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

slfinance.org SEO score

98

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 Slfinance.org 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 Slfinance.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

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