Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

ecocandleco.com

Eco Candle Co. | Handmade Soy Candles | Appleton WI

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

364 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

ecocandleco.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to ecocandleco.com homepage info - get ready to check Eco Candle Co best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about ecocandleco.com

Hand-poured soy candles, natural soap, and home fragrance products to make your home smell lovely! FREE SHIPPING over $50! Quality products handmade in Appleton, WI since 2004

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecocandleco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 364 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ecocandleco.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.html

364 ms

template-domain-320277.css

386 ms

templateText.css

281 ms

jquery.min.js

41 ms

extensions.js

281 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Ecocandleco.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (827 ms) belongs to the original domain Ecocandleco.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

409.6 kB

After Optimization

383.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Ecocandleco.com main page is 409.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 367.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.5 kB, which is 17% 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 11.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 367.4 kB
  • After minification 356.9 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. Eco Candle Co images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 4.0 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 426 B

  • Original 667 B
  • After minification 595 B
  • After compression 241 B

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. Ecocandleco.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 426 B or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (72%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eco Candle Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ecocandleco.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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

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

ecocandleco.com best practices score

62

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ecocandleco.com SEO score

89

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ecocandleco.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 Ecocandleco.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 description is not detected on the main page of Eco Candle Co. 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: