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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

cindygerard.com

Cindy Gerard - www.cindygerard.com - Romance Suspense Author

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cindy Gerard content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cindygerard.com

Cindy is a multi-award winning, bestselling author of romantic suspense novels including St. Martins Press and Silhouette Desire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cindygerard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 5.3 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

cindygerard.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cindygerard.com

264 ms

cindygerard.com

350 ms

stylecops.css

184 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

featuredcontentglider.css

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Cindygerard.com, 2% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cindygerard.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cindygerard.com 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 23.8 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 18.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Cindy Gerard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 90.2 kB
  • After minification 86.6 kB
  • After compression 79.5 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 10.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 856 B

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. Cindygerard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (7%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

78

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cindy Gerard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cindygerard.com

cindygerard.com

264 ms

cindygerard.com

cindygerard.com

350 ms

stylecops.css

stylecops.css

184 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

featuredcontentglider.css

featuredcontentglider.css

199 ms

featuredcontentglider.js

featuredcontentglider.js

206 ms

hmouse.js

hmouse.js

207 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

206 ms

counter.js

counter.js

34 ms

t.php

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244 ms

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129 ms

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325 ms

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335 ms

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335 ms

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334 ms

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325 ms

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320 ms

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524 ms

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687 ms

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695 ms

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694 ms

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708 ms

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711 ms

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883 ms

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887 ms

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890 ms

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908 ms

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907 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

912 ms

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1078 ms

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1082 ms

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1090 ms

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1112 ms

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33 ms

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1278 ms

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45 ms

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1230 ms

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1234 ms

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1211 ms

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1301 ms

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1414 ms

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1430 ms

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1525 ms

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1407 ms

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1518 ms

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1501 ms

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1517 ms

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1519 ms

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1523 ms

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1477 ms

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1589 ms

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1645 ms

homequote-btm.gif

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1616 ms

booklist.gif

booklist.gif

1546 ms

roundtrip.js

roundtrip.js

30 ms

Accessibility Review

cindygerard.com accessibility score

53

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cindygerard.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cindygerard.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cindygerard.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 Cindygerard.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

cindygerard.com

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