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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

coolcandles.com.au

Cool Candles: Online Candle Store Retail & Wholesale Australia

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

666 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

374 ms

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About Website

Welcome to coolcandles.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Cool Candles best content right away, or after learning these important things about coolcandles.com.au

Cool Candles is Australia’s premium candle supplier for retail and wholesale customers. See our fabulous range of wax and liquid paraffin candles and lamps.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Coolcandles.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 666 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

coolcandles.com.au performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

coolcandles.com.au

666 ms

coolcandles.com.au

886 ms

www.coolcandles.com.au

2017 ms

7e0679b64b2cdf33299126ea817bb3e9.css

438 ms

3e3341857589356d8bd866798302abd2.css

658 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Coolcandles.com.au, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Coolcandles.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 109.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

606.9 kB

After Optimization

497.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Coolcandles.com.au main page is 606.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 290.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 47.5 kB

  • Original 58.2 kB
  • After minification 47.4 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.8 kB, which is 19% 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 47.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 290.0 kB
  • After minification 283.4 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. Cool Candles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 43.7 kB

  • Original 216.0 kB
  • After minification 216.0 kB
  • After compression 172.2 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 43.7 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 42.8 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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. Coolcandles.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (33%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cool Candles. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

coolcandles.com.au

coolcandles.com.au

666 ms

coolcandles.com.au

coolcandles.com.au

886 ms

www.coolcandles.com.au

www.coolcandles.com.au

2017 ms

7e0679b64b2cdf33299126ea817bb3e9.css

7e0679b64b2cdf33299126ea817bb3e9.css

438 ms

3e3341857589356d8bd866798302abd2.css

3e3341857589356d8bd866798302abd2.css

658 ms

38280e79990a45921b459ade2a2fc3eb.js

38280e79990a45921b459ade2a2fc3eb.js

1357 ms

css

css

31 ms

3226622830c12aa1f7c25ac0365fef9d.css

3226622830c12aa1f7c25ac0365fef9d.css

885 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

704 ms

trafficbanner.js

trafficbanner.js

702 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

701 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

18 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

24 ms

bg.png

bg.png

227 ms

logo.png

logo.png

225 ms

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656 ms

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657 ms

cat_traditional-wax-candles.jpg

cat_traditional-wax-candles.jpg

439 ms

cat_liquid-oil-candles.jpg

cat_liquid-oil-candles.jpg

225 ms

cat_candle-lamps-holders.jpg

cat_candle-lamps-holders.jpg

659 ms

t832-cit_8hr_maxi_tealight_-_pk_8_103625221832_-_resized.jpg

t832-cit_8hr_maxi_tealight_-_pk_8_103625221832_-_resized.jpg

447 ms

t834-cit_-_citronella_travel_tin_candle_103625426732_-_resized.jpg

t834-cit_-_citronella_travel_tin_candle_103625426732_-_resized.jpg

444 ms

t833_-_vegan_citronella_tealights_4_hrs_-_pack_18_103626943432_-_resized.jpg

t833_-_vegan_citronella_tealights_4_hrs_-_pack_18_103626943432_-_resized.jpg

660 ms

crf_w-white_1.jpg

crf_w-white_1.jpg

665 ms

t708_maxi-floaters_1.jpg

t708_maxi-floaters_1.jpg

666 ms

coolcandles_led-set36_1.jpg

coolcandles_led-set36_1.jpg

875 ms

cc_bb-tl_1.jpg

cc_bb-tl_1.jpg

877 ms

etched_amber_candle_lamp_4.jpg

etched_amber_candle_lamp_4.jpg

880 ms

lowboy-candle-jars.jpg

lowboy-candle-jars.jpg

880 ms

facebook-link.png

facebook-link.png

871 ms

icon_sprite.png

icon_sprite.png

873 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

opc-ajax-loader.gif

opc-ajax-loader.gif

1025 ms

js

js

134 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

20 ms

css

css

32 ms

flexslider-icon.woff

flexslider-icon.woff

989 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwiPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwiPHA.ttf

21 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

27 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

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43 ms

Accessibility Review

coolcandles.com.au accessibility score

93

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

coolcandles.com.au 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

coolcandles.com.au SEO score

91

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 Coolcandles.com.au 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 Coolcandles.com.au 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

coolcandles.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cool Candles. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: