Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

gotochocolate.com

San Mateo Chocolates, Bay Area Farmers' Market Chocolates - Go To Chocolate

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

762 ms

Page Rendered

109 ms

gotochocolate.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Go To Chocolate content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gotochocolate.com

Known for their Go To Chocolate Bar, this company offers unique and delicious chocolates ranging from English Toffee to Nuts to caramels.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gotochocolate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 871 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gotochocolate.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gotochocolate.com

230 ms

gotochocolate.com

176 ms

gtc-text-noscroll.css

49 ms

highlight.js

93 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Gotochocolate.com, 5% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (230 ms) belongs to the original domain Gotochocolate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

248.8 kB

After Optimization

203.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Gotochocolate.com main page is 248.8 kB. 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 189.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.5 kB, which is 21% 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 5.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 189.3 kB
  • After minification 185.0 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. Go To Chocolate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 38.7 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 25.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Gotochocolate.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (50%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go To Chocolate. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gotochocolate.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

gotochocolate.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gotochocolate.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gotochocolate.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 Gotochocolate.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Go To Chocolate. 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: