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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

thecandlemerchant.co.za

The Candle Merchant - Retailer & Wholesaler - Shop Online

Page Load Speed

28.9 sec in total

First Response

6.3 sec

Resources Loaded

21.7 sec

Page Rendered

961 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Candle Merchant content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thecandlemerchant.co.za

The Candle Merchant is a retailer and wholesaler for candles, candle holders, accessories and serviettes, where stock is readily available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecandlemerchant.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 6.3 sec and then it took 22.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecandlemerchant.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecandlemerchant.co.za

6261 ms

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Our browser made a total of 225 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (209 requests) were addressed to the original Thecandlemerchant.co.za, 2% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecandlemerchant.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (9%)

Content Size

11.5 MB

After Optimization

10.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecandlemerchant.co.za main page is 11.5 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 9.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 124.7 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 1.0 MB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 9.4 MB
  • After minification 9.4 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. The Candle Merchant images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 767.0 kB
  • After minification 766.9 kB
  • After compression 752.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 131.9 kB
  • After minification 131.9 kB
  • After compression 127.9 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. Thecandlemerchant.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 119 (54%)

Requests Now

221

After Optimization

102

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 221 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Candle Merchant. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 76 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 45 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thecandlemerchant.co.za accessibility score

74

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thecandlemerchant.co.za 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thecandlemerchant.co.za SEO score

89

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thecandlemerchant.co.za 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 Thecandlemerchant.co.za 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

thecandlemerchant.co.za

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