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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

candlescience.com

Candle Making Supplies - CandleScience

Page Load Speed

66.2 sec in total

First Response

444 ms

Resources Loaded

38.9 sec

Page Rendered

26.9 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Candle Science content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about candlescience.com

America's leading candle making supplier, specializing in fragrance oils, candle wax, and more. Plus, expert advice and wholesale prices with same-day shipping.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Candlescience.com page load time and found that the first response time was 444 ms and then it took 65.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 3 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

candlescience.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,430 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

candlescience.com

444 ms

www.candlescience.com

1354 ms

gtm.js

1151 ms

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1051 ms

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5066 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Candlescience.com, 29% (20 requests) were made to D3rfpmmrv78sbu.cloudfront.net and 29% (20 requests) were made to D2r3z0h7oyiawr.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.4 sec) relates to the external source D2r3z0h7oyiawr.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 775.9 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Candlescience.com main page is 2.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 71.6 kB

  • Original 93.6 kB
  • After minification 82.3 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 11.4 kB, which is 12% 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 71.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Candle Science images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 375.1 kB

  • Original 786.0 kB
  • After minification 782.3 kB
  • After compression 411.0 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 375.1 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 323.3 kB

  • Original 388.2 kB
  • After minification 384.5 kB
  • After compression 65.0 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. Candlescience.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (30%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Candle Science. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

candlescience.com

candlescience.com

444 ms

www.candlescience.com

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1354 ms

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1151 ms

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1051 ms

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5066 ms

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12050 ms

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11241 ms

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16947 ms

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15229 ms

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17240 ms

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17240 ms

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17240 ms

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19232 ms

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19232 ms

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8649 ms

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8821 ms

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9181 ms

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8752 ms

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17096 ms

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19160 ms

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16957 ms

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17070 ms

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2300 ms

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6148 ms

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6370 ms

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mput

mput

7074 ms

config

config

1456 ms

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5847 ms

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521 ms

Accessibility Review

candlescience.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

candlescience.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

candlescience.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Candlescience.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Candlescience.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

candlescience.com

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