Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

cottagecountrycandies.com

Cottage Country Candies - Candies, Nuts and Trail Mixes, Canada

Page Load Speed

130.8 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

123.8 sec

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About Website

Welcome to cottagecountrycandies.com homepage info - get ready to check Cottage Country Candies best content right away, or after learning these important things about cottagecountrycandies.com

The fourth generation Scholtens Candy Company and their Cottage Country branded candies, nuts and trail mixes, can be found in more than 10,000 locations across Canada.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cottagecountrycandies.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 130.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cottagecountrycandies.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cottagecountrycandies.com

67 ms

cottagecountrycandies.com

4579 ms

upe_blocks.css

155 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

157 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (153 requests) were addressed to the original Cottagecountrycandies.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cottagecountrycandies.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.1 MB (13%)

Content Size

189.1 MB

After Optimization

163.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Cottagecountrycandies.com main page is 189.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 184.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 938.1 kB

  • Original 997.0 kB
  • After minification 988.5 kB
  • After compression 58.9 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 938.1 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 21.8 MB

  • Original 184.8 MB
  • After minification 163.0 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. Obviously, Cottage Country Candies needs image optimization as it can save up to 21.8 MB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 990.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 662.2 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 990.4 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 236.1 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. Cottagecountrycandies.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 105 (65%)

Requests Now

161

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 161 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cottage Country Candies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 95 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cottagecountrycandies.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

cottagecountrycandies.com 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

cottagecountrycandies.com SEO score

91

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

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 Cottagecountrycandies.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 Cottagecountrycandies.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 Cottage Country Candies. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: