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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

thecandleboxco.com

The Candle Box Co: Australian Made Candles, Diffusers, quotes, and more

Page Load Speed

10.4 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecandleboxco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecandleboxco.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,240 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thecandleboxco.com

1376 ms

h5u25.css

811 ms

20ftv.css

606 ms

o0v1.css

619 ms

o0ag.css

628 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Thecandleboxco.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecandleboxco.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 401.1 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecandleboxco.com main page is 1.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 798.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 210.2 kB

  • Original 259.6 kB
  • After minification 255.8 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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 210.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 100.6 kB

  • Original 798.9 kB
  • After minification 698.3 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. Obviously, The Candle Box Co needs image optimization as it can save up to 100.6 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 64.6 kB

  • Original 655.5 kB
  • After minification 655.4 kB
  • After compression 590.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 77.9 kB
  • After minification 77.9 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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. Thecandleboxco.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.7 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (69%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Candle Box Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thecandleboxco.com accessibility score

85

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thecandleboxco.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thecandleboxco.com SEO score

98

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Thecandleboxco.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 Thecandleboxco.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 The Candle Box Co. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: