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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

lancastercandy.com

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Page Load Speed

19 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

16.3 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lancastercandy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 18.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lancastercandy.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,810 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brands

103 ms

bv.js

466 ms

clientlib-base.lc-89f44a324b9523602932749328f7ba99-lc.min.css

45 ms

clientlib-dependencies.lc-89311e3d4d35304da21ba33905c69049-lc.min.css

65 ms

clientlib-site-revised.lc-418e7ff474da3ffbfc94589a658fcfd8-lc.min.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Lancastercandy.com, 4% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 2% (3 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (907 ms) relates to the external source Hersheyland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Lancastercandy.com main page is 3.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 143.8 kB

  • Original 159.6 kB
  • After minification 102.7 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 56.9 kB, which is 36% 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 143.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Lancaster Candy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 111.6 kB
  • After minification 111.5 kB
  • After compression 87.9 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 23.8 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (35%)

Requests Now

125

After Optimization

81

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 125 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lancaster Candy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

lancastercandy.com accessibility score

79

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

lancastercandy.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

lancastercandy.com SEO score

86

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 Lancastercandy.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 Lancastercandy.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 Lancaster Candy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: