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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

candlesdirect.com

Yankee Candles & Scented Candles For Sale | Candles Direct

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

443 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

Visit candlesdirect.com now to see the best up-to-date Candles Direct content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about candlesdirect.com

Shop For Yankee Candle And Scented Candles With Candles Direct - Sale Now On: Save Up To 50% Off. Wide Range Of Fragrances And Scents | Jar & Tea Light Candles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Candlesdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 443 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

candlesdirect.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,600 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

candlesdirect.com

443 ms

gtm.js

169 ms

js

58 ms

vendor.min.js

52 ms

theme.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Candlesdirect.com, 52% (72 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Config.gorgias.chat. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (443 ms) belongs to the original domain Candlesdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Candlesdirect.com main page is 3.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 268.3 kB

  • Original 313.8 kB
  • After minification 300.3 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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 268.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Candles Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 867 B

  • Original 173.2 kB
  • After minification 173.2 kB
  • After compression 172.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 173 B

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Candlesdirect.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (27%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

99

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Candles Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

candlesdirect.com

candlesdirect.com

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Accessibility Review

candlesdirect.com accessibility score

96

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.

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

candlesdirect.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

candlesdirect.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 Candlesdirect.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 Candlesdirect.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

candlesdirect.com

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