Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

farcandles.com

Hand Poured Luxury Coconut & Soy Wax Candles - FAR Candle Company

Page Load Speed

11 sec in total

First Response

366 ms

Resources Loaded

9.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

farcandles.com screenshot

About Website

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

Luxury soy wax candles, hand poured featuring a unique blend of coconut and soy wax with serious scents from FAR Candle Company.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Farcandles.com page load time and found that the first response time was 366 ms and then it took 10.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

farcandles.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,510 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

farcandles.com

366 ms

farcandles.com

636 ms

style.min.css

472 ms

css

26 ms

lc-public.css

368 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (112 requests) were addressed to the original Farcandles.com, 3% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Farcandles.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 287.2 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Farcandles.com main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 522.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 224.1 kB

  • Original 271.7 kB
  • After minification 265.4 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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 224.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 434.8 kB
  • After minification 406.2 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. FAR Candles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 522.2 kB
  • After minification 522.2 kB
  • After compression 489.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 174.8 kB
  • After minification 174.7 kB
  • After compression 173.4 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. Farcandles.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 93 (79%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FAR 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 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

farcandles.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

farcandles.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

farcandles.com SEO score

93

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

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 Farcandles.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 Farcandles.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 FAR Candles. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: