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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

candlewick.com

Candlewick Press - Welcome

Page Load Speed

536 ms in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

282 ms

Page Rendered

125 ms

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About Website

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Candlewick Press, based in Somerville, Massachusetts, publishes outstanding children�s books for readers of all ages. Since we first opened our doors in 1991, we�ve received more than 300 accolades an...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Candlewick.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 407 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

candlewick.com performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

candlewick.com

129 ms

nav.css

21 ms

default.css

24 ms

launch.js

12 ms

scroller.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Candlewick.com, 14% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (129 ms) belongs to the original domain Candlewick.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.6 kB (27%)

Content Size

298.4 kB

After Optimization

217.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Candlewick.com main page is 298.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 176.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 2.5 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 13.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 176.0 kB
  • After minification 168.9 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. Candlewick images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 82.2 kB
  • After minification 73.8 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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 42.8 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 17.1 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Candlewick.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (46%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Candlewick. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

candlewick.com

candlewick.com

129 ms

nav.css

nav.css

21 ms

default.css

default.css

24 ms

launch.js

launch.js

12 ms

scroller.js

scroller.js

24 ms

cwp.css

cwp.css

16 ms

css

css

26 ms

css

css

37 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

cwplogo.png

cwplogo.png

12 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

54 ms

cwpoffer.png

cwpoffer.png

4 ms

0763688193.sml.jpg

0763688193.sml.jpg

4 ms

0763687669.sml.jpg

0763687669.sml.jpg

7 ms

0763685305.sml.jpg

0763685305.sml.jpg

6 ms

arrow_new.gif

arrow_new.gif

5 ms

0763678635.med.jpg

0763678635.med.jpg

20 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

11 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

11 ms

google.png

google.png

14 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

14 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

15 ms

scribd.png

scribd.png

17 ms

zazzle.png

zazzle.png

17 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

KateDiCamillo_CWP-banner.gif

KateDiCamillo_CWP-banner.gif

5 ms

LittleSnowplow_CWP-banner.jpg

LittleSnowplow_CWP-banner.jpg

9 ms

Murdstone_CWP-banner.jpg

Murdstone_CWP-banner.jpg

8 ms

Accessibility Review

candlewick.com accessibility score

85

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

candlewick.com best practices score

69

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

candlewick.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Candlewick.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 Candlewick.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

candlewick.com

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