Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

wickfreecandles.com

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Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wickfreecandles.com page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wickfreecandles.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,730 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wickfreecandles.com

86 ms

wickfreecandles.scentsy.us

593 ms

app.css

292 ms

productPages.css

312 ms

osano.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wickfreecandles.com, 39% (34 requests) were made to Imagelive.scentsy.com and 35% (31 requests) were made to Wickfreecandles.scentsy.us. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (633 ms) relates to the external source Wickfreecandles.scentsy.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 746.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

18.9 MB

After Optimization

18.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Wickfreecandles.com main page is 18.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 18.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 113.4 kB

  • Original 139.9 kB
  • After minification 120.5 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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 19.4 kB, which is 14% 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 113.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 404.5 kB

  • Original 18.0 MB
  • After minification 17.6 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. Wickfreecandles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 228.3 kB

  • Original 723.9 kB
  • After minification 723.9 kB
  • After compression 495.6 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 228.3 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 161 B

  • Original 51.8 kB
  • After minification 51.8 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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. Wickfreecandles.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (44%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wickfreecandles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wickfreecandles.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

SEO Factors

wickfreecandles.com SEO score

85

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wickfreecandles.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 Wickfreecandles.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Wickfreecandles. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: