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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

pricescandles.co.za

Price's Candles - A Legacy of Quality, Reliability and Service

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

966 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

660 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pricescandles.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 966 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pricescandles.co.za performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pricescandles.co.za

966 ms

Default.asp

962 ms

default.asp

320 ms

www.pricescandles.co.za

332 ms

css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Pricescandles.co.za, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Pricescandles.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

580.0 kB

After Optimization

530.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pricescandles.co.za main page is 580.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 411.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 2.0 kB, which is 25% 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 5.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 411.0 kB
  • After minification 408.7 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. Price S Candles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 128.4 kB
  • After minification 128.4 kB
  • After compression 98.9 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 29.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 32.7 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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. Pricescandles.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (48%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Price S 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pricescandles.co.za

pricescandles.co.za

966 ms

Default.asp

Default.asp

962 ms

default.asp

default.asp

320 ms

www.pricescandles.co.za

www.pricescandles.co.za

332 ms

css

css

37 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

672 ms

main.css

main.css

632 ms

responsive-adjustments.css

responsive-adjustments.css

637 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

658 ms

less.js

less.js

1016 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1350 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

978 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

969 ms

main.js

main.js

984 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

38 ms

prices-candles-and-link-match-logo.png

prices-candles-and-link-match-logo.png

355 ms

history-background.jpg

history-background.jpg

681 ms

the-candle-background.jpg

the-candle-background.jpg

659 ms

products-background.jpg

products-background.jpg

659 ms

candle-tips-background.jpg

candle-tips-background.jpg

669 ms

contact-us-background.jpg

contact-us-background.jpg

672 ms

homepage-main-image.jpg

homepage-main-image.jpg

996 ms

font

font

33 ms

collect

collect

20 ms

js

js

63 ms

Accessibility Review

pricescandles.co.za accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

pricescandles.co.za best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

pricescandles.co.za SEO score

97

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

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 Pricescandles.co.za 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 Pricescandles.co.za 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

pricescandles.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Price S 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: