Blog Review
First Impressions
First time visiting your blog the first I saw was that a bit uncomfortable advertisement pictures. I am trying my best to be neutral on this, but I imagine there must be several visitors who were not comfortable with it and probably immediately closed the window and left the site because the advertisements. That would be a shame since looking below a little you have quite good posts there. Perhaps you can relocate the advertisements so it wouldn't be the first thing visitors see or decrease the number or change it into more user-friendly pictures. Scrolling down more, I admit I was rather confused to find why the articles linked in the first post are so many about romance or related to adulthood and made me confused of the real purpose of the blog. "What does this blog offer me?" It makes me feel as if there aren't many varieties in the posts and ponder about the blog's slogan as an "Entertainment, Humor, and Lifestyle Magazine". Surely there should be more than simply those for entertainment, humor, and lifestyle?
(Score: 13/20)
Appearance
The overall appearance of your blog is great. You combine dark background with light content, that helps to focus visitors attention to the content/body of the blog itself. I think you can actually move the important links located at the bottom (from "About" to "Resources") to the top instead as they are all important links, especially since they explain what your blog is about and what you have to offer there. In return you can perhaps move the time/date part below to give more space. The banner/logo and favicon are all great. The location of post categories and social links is not a problem too. My suggestion would be to add the slogan of your site ("Entertainment, Humor, and Lifestyle Magazine") somewhere there so visitors actually know what your blog is about. It also acts as some kind of 'prologue' or introduction before they look at your posts deeper, to know what to expect from there. I like how you used all space proportionally, not many excessive space there. Maybe you can make your background more appealing by adding picture or texture related to entertainment, hobby, or lifestyle to the background to strengthen the atmosphere of fun in the blog.
(Score: 19/20)
Content
The content, the posts in this case, after looking through the categories, actually stay true to the slogan. FunFused provides a lot of entertainment, humor, and lifestyle related articles.
What I am unsure of is "The Body Shop" category. Technically speaking it doesn't truly belong to any of the category of what your site is about, the category has least posts compared to the other ones, and there is only one comment as well so far from all the posts you have made in that category. It shows lack of attention from both writers and visitors regarding the category. This signs that maybe the genre is not very attractive to your site visitors. My suggestion would be to take the category down, and if you really want to find another one to replace it, think of something else more related to it. Or you can expand the "Entertainment" category into various media, from movies to musics or literature, to make it easier for visitors to search articles to their interest.
The "Infographics" category is rather confusing as well. The posts you entered in that category fits more at miscellaneous category than other since the posts are related to various things, from technology (like when you talk about Google) to health (when you mentioned medication).
Skimming through the posts I also found quite many adult-related articles with quite 'open' images. I do not mean to criticize you by saying your blog contains pornography or something like that and that you should stop. As much as it is now popular in cyber world and hard to prevent visitors from getting the same content somewhere else, but there is always a chance that such content might drive potential permanent visitor. You never know; therefore it is best to balance it out more or use less 'open' images. Especially at the index page, with the addition of the advertisements at top of the page or at the side widget, your blog could send the wrong vibe to several visitors.
Grammar wise I don't see major mistakes in the posts. Only small details in the post titles such as you capitalizing "o" in "Of" or "t" in "To" and some other auxiliary words like that.
(Score: 28/40)
Comments
Regarding the comments, after checking around, you seem to have more comments in past entries than new ones. That should got you thinking why you lack comments in latest posts instead. The few latest comments are made by the same person as well. The good side is that the writers of your blog reply to the visitors comments which encourage more discussion there. About the lack of comments on new posts and variety in visitors, in that case you may need to improve on the content of the posts and the blog itself and maybe get to advertise it more.
(Score: 16/20)
Total Score
76/100
Final Remarks
FunFused has lots of area to explore to provide great and interesting entries for visitors to enjoy. While it could be your strong point, if you didn't use it and stay superficial it wouldn't be inviting. Try to explore more, do not stick to one thing only, expand the content based on what the idea of your forum is: entertainment, humor, and life style. Personally speaking I think your adult-related content might be too distracting for several users who are not familiar with it, so perhaps you want to think about it a bit more. All in all, good luck in your site and keep up the good work!
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