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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

candles.hk

The Candle Company, Hong Kongs Favourite Candle Store - The Candle Company

Page Load Speed

11 sec in total

First Response

512 ms

Resources Loaded

9.6 sec

Page Rendered

881 ms

candles.hk screenshot

About Website

Visit candles.hk now to see the best up-to-date Candle S content for Hong Kong and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about candles.hk

The Candle Company is Hong Kong's favourite candle store. We have a huge range of candles, reed diffusers, fragrance oils, essential oils and candle accessories

Visit candles.hk

Key Findings

We analyzed Candles.hk page load time and found that the first response time was 512 ms and then it took 10.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

candles.hk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

candles.hk

512 ms

carrollandchan.com

4795 ms

bootstrap-light.min.css

28 ms

base.min.css

34 ms

woo-widget-price-filter.min.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Candles.hk, 92% (109 requests) were made to Carrollandchan.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Assets.brevo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) relates to the external source Carrollandchan.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.9 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Candles.hk 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 302.1 kB

  • Original 356.1 kB
  • After minification 347.1 kB
  • After compression 53.9 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 302.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 62.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Candle S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 48 B

  • Original 27.5 kB
  • After minification 27.5 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (71%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Candle S. 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 74 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

candles.hk

candles.hk

512 ms

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Accessibility Review

candles.hk accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

candles.hk 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

SEO Factors

candles.hk SEO score

77

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Candles.hk 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 Candles.hk 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

candles.hk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Candle S. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: