Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% 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

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

melon.com

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Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

504 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Melon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 504 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

melon.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

melon.com

504 ms

index.htm

683 ms

index.htm

1072 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

417 ms

melonweb_member_external.js

1118 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Melon.com, 74% (91 requests) were made to Cdnimg.melon.co.kr and 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.melon.co.kr. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Static.melon.co.kr.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (35%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Melon.com main page is 4.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 180.1 kB

  • Original 200.8 kB
  • After minification 159.8 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 41.0 kB, which is 20% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 180.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 60.9 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Melon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 711.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 675.1 kB
  • After compression 306.3 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 711.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 541.5 kB

  • Original 622.8 kB
  • After minification 622.8 kB
  • After compression 81.3 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. Melon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 541.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (32%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

82

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Melon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

melon.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

melon.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

melon.com SEO score

83

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

    KO

  • Language Claimed

    KO

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Melon.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Korean is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Melon.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

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