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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

candlemaking.com

Aztec Wholesale Candle and Soap Making Supplies

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

293 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

About Website

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Wholesale candle and soap making supplies with same day shipping. Premium fragrance oils, IGI waxes, Ecosoya and AAK Soy wax, Crafters Choice brand and so much more

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Key Findings

We analyzed Candlemaking.com page load time and found that the first response time was 293 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

candlemaking.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,970 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.127

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.candlemaking.com

293 ms

calendar.min.css

37 ms

styles-m.min.css

114 ms

font-awesome.min.css

79 ms

bootstrap.min.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 174 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (162 requests) were addressed to the original Candlemaking.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Js.klevu.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (349 ms) belongs to the original domain Candlemaking.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 555.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Candlemaking.com main page is 2.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 901.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 105.1 kB

  • Original 127.3 kB
  • After minification 125.6 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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 105.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 345 B

  • Original 764.9 kB
  • After minification 764.6 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. Candle Making images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 406.5 kB

  • Original 901.6 kB
  • After minification 745.1 kB
  • After compression 495.1 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 406.5 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 43.3 kB

  • Original 227.1 kB
  • After minification 227.1 kB
  • After compression 183.8 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. Candlemaking.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.3 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 144 (87%)

Requests Now

165

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 165 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Candle Making. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 136 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

candlemaking.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

candlemaking.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

candlemaking.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Candlemaking.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 Candlemaking.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 description is not detected on the main page of Candle Making. 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: