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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

merlenorman.com

Merle Norman Cosmetics

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

512 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Merle Norman content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about merlenorman.com

Official website for Merle Norman Cosmetics. Formulated with the finest ingredients since 1931, our premium skincare and makeup products empower you to create your own version of extraordinary.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merlenorman.com page load time and found that the first response time was 512 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

merlenorman.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.191

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merlenorman.com

512 ms

MenuFunctions.js

210 ms

Main.css

296 ms

WebResource.axd

130 ms

WebResource.axd

322 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Merlenorman.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (695 ms) belongs to the original domain Merlenorman.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 471.2 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

624.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merlenorman.com main page is 1.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 932.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 67.6 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 54.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 351.9 kB

  • Original 932.9 kB
  • After minification 581.0 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. Obviously, Merle Norman needs image optimization as it can save up to 351.9 kB or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 76.9 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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 50.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 12.7 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Merlenorman.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (21%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merle Norman. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

merlenorman.com

merlenorman.com

512 ms

MenuFunctions.js

MenuFunctions.js

210 ms

Main.css

Main.css

296 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

130 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

322 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

143 ms

USAFlag.jpg

USAFlag.jpg

331 ms

imgMainleft.jpg

imgMainleft.jpg

365 ms

imgMainCenter.jpg

imgMainCenter.jpg

695 ms

imgMainright.jpg

imgMainright.jpg

328 ms

imgBottomLeft.jpg

imgBottomLeft.jpg

160 ms

imgBottomMiddle.jpg

imgBottomMiddle.jpg

389 ms

imgBottomRight.jpg

imgBottomRight.jpg

340 ms

info100.gif

info100.gif

378 ms

header_logo.png

header_logo.png

407 ms

search_button.png

search_button.png

410 ms

SocialIcons.png

SocialIcons.png

440 ms

header_bkgd_gradient.jpg

header_bkgd_gradient.jpg

198 ms

ga.js

ga.js

26 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

merlenorman.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

merlenorman.com 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

merlenorman.com SEO score

93

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Merlenorman.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Merlenorman.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

merlenorman.com

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