Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

glowlights.com

Personalized Glow Sticks - Fast & Free Imprinting | GlowLights

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

863 ms

Page Rendered

131 ms

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About Website

Welcome to glowlights.com homepage info - get ready to check Glow Lights best content right away, or after learning these important things about glowlights.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glowlights.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 994 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glowlights.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.glowlights.com

162 ms

theme.css

51 ms

gl-theme.css

45 ms

preloads.js

170 ms

load_feature-9f951eb7d8d53973c719de211f807d63af81c644e5b9a6ae72661ac408d472f6.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Glowlights.com, 11% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.judge.me. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (272 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.judge.me.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 252.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Glowlights.com main page is 1.3 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. Images take 601.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 249.4 kB

  • Original 310.8 kB
  • After minification 303.8 kB
  • After compression 61.4 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. 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 249.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 601.5 kB
  • After minification 599.2 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. Glow Lights images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 546 B

  • Original 293.0 kB
  • After minification 293.0 kB
  • After compression 292.5 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 600 B

  • Original 58.7 kB
  • After minification 58.7 kB
  • After compression 58.1 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. Glowlights.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (68%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glow Lights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glowlights.com accessibility score

93

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

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

glowlights.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

glowlights.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Glowlights.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 Glowlights.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 Glow Lights. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: