candelae.ca website review

About 364 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.7 s faster on a phone.

13 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (269 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 61. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

13 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.

Shopify costs a phone 38 ms of main-thread work and 523 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (loox.io, sealsubscriptions.com and Shopify and others), adding 880 KiB and 333 ms of main-thread time.

30 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Polyfills for old browsers add 24 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 63 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

1 image could be 5 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Your largest element takes 11.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 11.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 4.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

Your homepage downloads 2.9 MB in 237 requests on a phone: scripts 927 KiB (86), other files 728 KiB (83) and media 505 KiB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

Candelae_Extras-9.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.82 g of CO₂e: 98.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

25 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Your title is 81 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “candēlae | Exclusive candle subscriptions tailored for every occasion. – candelae”.

Your meta description is 316 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

Structured data found (Organization, Product, Store and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: url is not an absolute URL ("candelae.ca")”.

Your <h1> is empty.

The homepage links to 56 pages on candelae.ca and 3 external pages.

There is no https://candelae.ca/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

Your homepage links to https://candelae.ca/en-us/pages/reviews and https://candelae.ca/en-us/pages/faqs, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

https://candelae.ca/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

https://candelae.ca/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

https://candelae.ca/en-us/collections/all, https://candelae.ca/customer_authentication/redirect and https://candelae.ca/en-us/policies/shipping-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://candelae.ca/en-us/collections/all, https://candelae.ca/customer_authentication/redirect and https://candelae.ca/en-us/collections/all-candles have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 22 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED”.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

The homepage carries about 388 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Pinterest Tag and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

Opening the homepage sets 17 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

Loading the homepage contacts 29 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.