Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

westcoastcandlesupply.com

West Coast Candle Supply | Candle Making Supplies

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

432 ms

About Website

Welcome to westcoastcandlesupply.com homepage info - get ready to check West Coast Candle Supply best content right away, or after learning these important things about westcoastcandlesupply.com

Candle Making Supplies. We carry soy wax, coconut wax, coconut apricot wax, beeswax, candle containers, fragrances and candle wicks.

Visit westcoastcandlesupply.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Westcoastcandlesupply.com page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 7.9 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

westcoastcandlesupply.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,010 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.187

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westcoastcandlesupply.com

78 ms

www.westcoastcandlesupply.com

4285 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

88 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

95 ms

jquery.selectBox.css

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Westcoastcandlesupply.com, 25% (32 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 20% (25 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Westcoastcandlesupply.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 195.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westcoastcandlesupply.com main page is 3.9 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. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 176.7 kB

  • Original 205.4 kB
  • After minification 203.3 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 176.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. West Coast Candle Supply images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 308.9 kB
  • After minification 308.7 kB
  • After compression 298.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 227.3 kB
  • After minification 227.1 kB
  • After compression 219.8 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. Westcoastcandlesupply.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (65%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Coast Candle Supply. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

westcoastcandlesupply.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

westcoastcandlesupply.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

westcoastcandlesupply.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Westcoastcandlesupply.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 Westcoastcandlesupply.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 West Coast Candle Supply. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: