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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

melissafoster.com

Romantic Fiction | Romance Ebooks | Romance Novel Authors - Melissa Foster

Page Load Speed

9.5 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

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About Website

Visit melissafoster.com now to see the best up-to-date Melissa Foster content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about melissafoster.com

Melissa Foster is a NYT and USA Today best-selling author of romantic fiction. Shop her romance novels and romance ebooks, and sign up for her newsletter!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Melissafoster.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

melissafoster.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.melissafoster.com

1780 ms

css

24 ms

css

38 ms

bwg_frontend.css

78 ms

sumoselect.css

197 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Melissafoster.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Melissafoster.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 690.8 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

995.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Melissafoster.com main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 854.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 53.0 kB

  • Original 63.4 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 53.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 854.3 kB
  • After minification 771.9 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. Melissa Foster images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 326.3 kB

  • Original 476.1 kB
  • After minification 448.4 kB
  • After compression 149.7 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 326.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 229.1 kB

  • Original 292.7 kB
  • After minification 249.5 kB
  • After compression 63.6 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. Melissafoster.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 229.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (68%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Melissa Foster. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.melissafoster.com

www.melissafoster.com

1780 ms

css

css

24 ms

css

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38 ms

bwg_frontend.css

bwg_frontend.css

78 ms

sumoselect.css

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197 ms

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159 ms

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156 ms

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54 ms

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202 ms

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197 ms

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263 ms

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302 ms

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292 ms

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299 ms

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1595 ms

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333 ms

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421 ms

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364 ms

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367 ms

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401 ms

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429 ms

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466 ms

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489 ms

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503 ms

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508 ms

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532 ms

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561 ms

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572 ms

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644 ms

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33 ms

Accessibility Review

melissafoster.com accessibility score

85

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

melissafoster.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

melissafoster.com SEO score

99

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 Melissafoster.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 Melissafoster.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

melissafoster.com

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