ottawacustomcandles.com website review

Your mobile performance score is 72. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Google CDN costs a phone 291 ms of main-thread work and 298 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.

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

A phone's processor spends 2.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Privy and Shopify and others), adding 804 KiB and 482 ms of main-thread time.

9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 228 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 224 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

9 images could be 100 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (41 KiB).

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.

The page becomes fully interactive after 9.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your largest element takes 3.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Chandelle Noire is Ottawa Custom Candles’ premium coconut s…”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.4 s).

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 366 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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 2.1 MB in 201 requests on a phone: scripts 691 KiB (66), other files 640 KiB (71) and images 455 KiB (23). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images further down the page (68 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.60 g of CO₂e: 72.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 16 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

The homepage links to 122 pages on ottawacustomcandles.com and 6 external pages.

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

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

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

/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 55 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

4 of 18 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'name' of 'e' as it is undefined.”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://ottawacustomcandles.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en&region_country=CA.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

ottawacustomcandles.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

ottawacustomcandles.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

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.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

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

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 586 words of visible text.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be ottawacustomcandles.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Pinterest Tag (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 13 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 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.