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spanglercandy.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202624 issues · 74 checks
This review found 24 issues worth fixing on spanglercandy.com, 4 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused CSS. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
87B- #6,843 of 96,049 reviewed websitesbeats 90%
- #3,822 of 51,943 online storesbeats 89%
- #3,707 of 47,040 Shopify storesbeats 88%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 878 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 992 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 982 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 970 ms |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 79 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 81 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 84 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 85 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 81 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 79 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.6 s
1.2 s
1.7 s
2.3 s
2.9 s
3.5 s
4.1 s
4.6 s
Speed
Reduce unused CSS
1.5 s · 177 KiBAbout 177 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.
Minify CSS
900 ms · 108 KiB108 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Mobile performance score: 67
67/100Your mobile performance score is 67. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
650 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 650 ms.
Reduce unused JavaScript
440 ms · 97 KiBAbout 97 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 440 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
398 KiB11 images could be 398 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Clarity, Shopify and usablenet.com and others), adding 440 KiB and 192 ms of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
50 ms · 20 KiB7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (20 KiB).
Legacy JavaScript
10 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Chained critical requests
Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.2 s
A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 591 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 5 ms
5 msYour server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 9.3 s
9.3 sYour largest element takes 9.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “These little pops have a way of making life's everyday mome…”.
Time to Interactive: 9.4 s
9.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 9.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.141
0.141The layout shifts by 0.141 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Speed Index: 3.9 s
3.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 1.9 s
1.9 sThe first text or image appears after 1.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
0%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 79 ms to 79 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.9 s to 1.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
7 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors wait 1.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 79 ms
79 msReal visitors wait 79 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 0.8 s
0.8 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 461 ms
461 msReal visitors wait 461 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.3 MB in 224 requests
2.3 MBYour homepage downloads 2.3 MB in 224 requests on a phone: other files 1.0 MB (147), images 582 KiB (15) and scripts 420 KiB (49). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
Dum_Dums.png 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).
About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit
0.67 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.67 g of CO₂e: 79.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Hidden but focusable
2 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 27 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
42 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 2 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
76 internal links, 10 external
The homepage links to 76 pages on spanglercandy.com and 10 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 141 characters
Your meta description is 141 characters: “Spangler Candy is a fourth-generation family-owned company since 1906. Buy bulk Dum-Dums, Bit-O-Honey & more for school…”.
Title: 59 characters
Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Buy Spangler Candy in Bulk | Dum-Dums, Necco Wafers, & more”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://spanglercandy.com/.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://spanglercandy.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
3 checks passed
AI answer engines may read the site
Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (457 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://spanglercandy.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 32 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
9 small tap targets
9 of 29 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 distorted image
1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.
1 low-resolution image
1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 10 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
Only about 223 words
The homepage has only about 223 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
No risk reducer
No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP DUM DUMS”.
5 calls to action
The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Shop Dum Dums”, “Shop Bit-O-Honey” and “Learn More”.
12 short forms
12 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Microsoft Clarity.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (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.
12 cookies set on arrival
12Opening the homepage sets 12 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
No consent tool detected
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.
21 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 21 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at spanglercandy.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 3 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Sami Product Labels · Judge Me Reviews · searchserverapi.com
Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Microsoft Clarity
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Founded
- 1906
- Headquarters
- Bryan
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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