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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ctrivercandles.com

Hand Poured Soy Candles | Wholesale Soy Candles | CT Candle Company

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

879 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

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About Website

Welcome to ctrivercandles.com homepage info - get ready to check CT River Candles best content right away, or after learning these important things about ctrivercandles.com

CT River Candles was inspired by the beauty of the Connecticut River. Our soy candles are hand poured in the Farmington Valley, using 100% natural soy wax.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctrivercandles.com page load time and found that the first response time was 879 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ctrivercandles.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ctrivercandles.com

879 ms

modernizr.min.js

36 ms

utilities.js

30 ms

quicksearch.css

53 ms

layout.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Ctrivercandles.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (879 ms) belongs to the original domain Ctrivercandles.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

535.7 kB

After Optimization

470.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ctrivercandles.com main page is 535.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 332.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 16.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 627 B

  • Original 332.5 kB
  • After minification 331.9 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. CT River Candles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 145.6 kB
  • After minification 145.6 kB
  • After compression 97.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 48.2 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 34.6 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. Ctrivercandles.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (57%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CT River 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.ctrivercandles.com

www.ctrivercandles.com

879 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

36 ms

utilities.js

utilities.js

30 ms

quicksearch.css

quicksearch.css

53 ms

layout.css

layout.css

70 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

88 ms

default_modified.css

default_modified.css

52 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

75 ms

quick_view.css

quick_view.css

77 ms

quick_view.js

quick_view.js

74 ms

jquery.simplemodal.min.js

jquery.simplemodal.min.js

91 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

113 ms

nivo.css

nivo.css

120 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

77 ms

functions.js

functions.js

142 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

32 ms

ga.js

ga.js

41 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

58 ms

mainbg.jpg

mainbg.jpg

66 ms

3d%20logo%20nbgr.png

3d%20logo%20nbgr.png

186 ms

cart.png

cart.png

80 ms

lens.png

lens.png

45 ms

topnavbg.png

topnavbg.png

31 ms

nav-div.png

nav-div.png

32 ms

menu-header-bg.png

menu-header-bg.png

76 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

65 ms

ctmade_logo_full_color_l.png

ctmade_logo_full_color_l.png

102 ms

Soy%20Melts%20Back.jpg

Soy%20Melts%20Back.jpg

177 ms

BlackMiniSoyCandleCropped.JPG

BlackMiniSoyCandleCropped.JPG

694 ms

Spa-Jar-Soy-Candles-Ocean-SeaMist-Linen-1800x1600.jpg

Spa-Jar-Soy-Candles-Ocean-SeaMist-Linen-1800x1600.jpg

187 ms

MasonGiftBasket.jpg

MasonGiftBasket.jpg

209 ms

Carousel%2047.JPG

Carousel%2047.JPG

158 ms

mason%20lilac%20rb_A%20copy.jpg

mason%20lilac%20rb_A%20copy.jpg

211 ms

logo.png

logo.png

196 ms

social-icons.png

social-icons.png

230 ms

script.js

script.js

158 ms

count.asp

count.asp

410 ms

3dvisit.asp

3dvisit.asp

240 ms

Museo300-Regular-webfont.woff

Museo300-Regular-webfont.woff

223 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

22 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

js

js

65 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

25 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

28 ms

bullets.png

bullets.png

27 ms

Accessibility Review

ctrivercandles.com accessibility score

55

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

ctrivercandles.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ctrivercandles.com SEO score

83

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ctrivercandles.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ctrivercandles.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

ctrivercandles.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of CT River 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: