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yankeecandle.co.uk

Yankee Candle - Candles, Candle Accessories & Home Fragrance

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

708 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

yankeecandle.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Yankee Candle content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about yankeecandle.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yankeecandle.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 708 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

yankeecandle.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.yankeecandle.co.uk

708 ms

f49f397a148ef0cc9214860e86a23dbf.js

387 ms

base.css

311 ms

iMAWebCookie.js

53 ms

colorbox.css

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Yankeecandle.co.uk, 8% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (708 ms) belongs to the original domain Yankeecandle.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 718.0 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

985.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Yankeecandle.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 748.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 73.0 kB

  • Original 90.0 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 21.6 kB, which is 24% 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 73.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 662.6 kB
  • After minification 634.2 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. Yankee Candle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 450.7 kB

  • Original 748.5 kB
  • After minification 712.2 kB
  • After compression 297.8 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 450.7 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 165.9 kB

  • Original 202.0 kB
  • After minification 169.7 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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. Yankeecandle.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 165.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (49%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Yankee Candle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.yankeecandle.co.uk

www.yankeecandle.co.uk

708 ms

f49f397a148ef0cc9214860e86a23dbf.js

f49f397a148ef0cc9214860e86a23dbf.js

387 ms

base.css

base.css

311 ms

iMAWebCookie.js

iMAWebCookie.js

53 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

159 ms

element.js

element.js

47 ms

geoip2.js

geoip2.js

7 ms

gtmDataLayer.js

gtmDataLayer.js

92 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

22 ms

tracker.js

tracker.js

42 ms

bg_wood.jpg

bg_wood.jpg

265 ms

signup.jpg

signup.jpg

100 ms

yankee-candle-logo.png

yankee-candle-logo.png

264 ms

flag_uk.jpg

flag_uk.jpg

99 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

99 ms

flag_eu.jpg

flag_eu.jpg

197 ms

mothers-day-desktop-960x400.jpg

mothers-day-desktop-960x400.jpg

454 ms

memories-desktop-960x150.jpg

memories-desktop-960x150.jpg

340 ms

easter-desktop-960x250.jpg

easter-desktop-960x250.jpg

497 ms

february-2016-frangrance-of-the-month-candles-content-box-v2.jpg

february-2016-frangrance-of-the-month-candles-content-box-v2.jpg

326 ms

2016-q1-special-appearances-candles-content-box-v2.jpg

2016-q1-special-appearances-candles-content-box-v2.jpg

342 ms

new-scenterpiece-content-box-v2.jpg

new-scenterpiece-content-box-v2.jpg

345 ms

new-pillar-candles-content-box-v2.jpg

new-pillar-candles-content-box-v2.jpg

482 ms

facebook70.jpg

facebook70.jpg

417 ms

twitter70.jpg

twitter70.jpg

418 ms

pinterest70.jpg

pinterest70.jpg

418 ms

instagram70.jpg

instagram70.jpg

495 ms

feefo150.png

feefo150.png

496 ms

payments_demo.png

payments_demo.png

496 ms

salescenter620.jpg

salescenter620.jpg

529 ms

en_pcilogo_light.png

en_pcilogo_light.png

558 ms

en_logo_light.png

en_logo_light.png

570 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

64 ms

bg.png

bg.png

569 ms

gray-arrow.jpg

gray-arrow.jpg

569 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

85 ms

main.js

main.js

89 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

37 ms

mybuys_qs.js

mybuys_qs.js

20 ms

element_main.js

element_main.js

42 ms

vertical-line.jpg

vertical-line.jpg

473 ms

shopping_bag.jpg

shopping_bag.jpg

504 ms

hd_ribbon_grey.png

hd_ribbon_grey.png

527 ms

white-arrow.png

white-arrow.png

523 ms

collect

collect

48 ms

bg_footer.png

bg_footer.png

508 ms

ga.js

ga.js

42 ms

93 ms

me

me

107 ms

collect

collect

56 ms

closebutton.png

closebutton.png

463 ms

overlaybackground6.jpg

overlaybackground6.jpg

464 ms

popup_input.png

popup_input.png

512 ms

collect

collect

99 ms

translate_24dp.png

translate_24dp.png

78 ms

l

l

49 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

googlelogo_color_42x16dp.png

googlelogo_color_42x16dp.png

56 ms

50 ms

collect

collect

40 ms

styles.css

styles.css

5 ms

mybuys4.js

mybuys4.js

13 ms

setup.js

setup.js

53 ms

SEO Factors

yankeecandle.co.uk SEO score

0

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 Yankeecandle.co.uk 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 Yankeecandle.co.uk 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

yankeecandle.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Yankee Candle. 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: