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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

sugarcubes.ca

Home Sweet Home Specializes in Decorative Sugar, Miniature Cookies, Gingerbread and Gourmet Caramels

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

118 ms

Resources Loaded

915 ms

Page Rendered

164 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Sugar Cubes content for Ukraine. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sugarcubes.ca

Home Sweet Home specializing in sugar art. Choose from decorated sugar cubes, dragées, miniature cookies, gourmet caramels and sugar sculptures. A passionate confectionery express by Kara Cashion

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sugarcubes.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 118 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sugarcubes.ca performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sugarcubes.ca

118 ms

slideshow.css

60 ms

jquery.js

197 ms

slideshow.js

131 ms

decorated_sugar_rev.png

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Sugarcubes.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (584 ms) belongs to the original domain Sugarcubes.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sugarcubes.ca 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 7.6 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 5.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 43.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. Sugar Cubes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 32.2 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 16.5 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 255 B
  • After minification 173 B
  • After compression 130 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. Sugarcubes.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125 B or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sugar Cubes. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

sugarcubes.ca

sugarcubes.ca

118 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

60 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

197 ms

slideshow.js

slideshow.js

131 ms

decorated_sugar_rev.png

decorated_sugar_rev.png

105 ms

HSH_1.png

HSH_1.png

129 ms

gourmet_caramels.png

gourmet_caramels.png

87 ms

easter_mini_cookies_rev.png

easter_mini_cookies_rev.png

108 ms

gingerbread.png

gingerbread.png

112 ms

sugar_sculptures_rev.png

sugar_sculptures_rev.png

111 ms

miniature_tea_cookies.png

miniature_tea_cookies.png

152 ms

decorated_dragees2.png

decorated_dragees2.png

162 ms

roses.jpg

roses.jpg

237 ms

flowers.jpg

flowers.jpg

242 ms

kettle.jpg

kettle.jpg

244 ms

text.jpg

text.jpg

194 ms

christmas_tree.jpg

christmas_tree.jpg

264 ms

snowflakes.jpg

snowflakes.jpg

270 ms

gingerbread_house.jpg

gingerbread_house.jpg

247 ms

cards.jpg

cards.jpg

291 ms

cross.jpg

cross.jpg

296 ms

flowers2.jpg

flowers2.jpg

298 ms

gingerbread.jpg

gingerbread.jpg

351 ms

gingerbread_house2.jpg

gingerbread_house2.jpg

318 ms

ebook_course.png

ebook_course.png

323 ms

twitter_logo_header.png

twitter_logo_header.png

354 ms

cinamon_sentiments_logo.jpg

cinamon_sentiments_logo.jpg

584 ms

facebook.jpg

facebook.jpg

354 ms

Accessibility Review

sugarcubes.ca accessibility score

50

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

sugarcubes.ca best practices score

50

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sugarcubes.ca SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sugarcubes.ca 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 Sugarcubes.ca main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

sugarcubes.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sugar Cubes. 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: