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sweetishcandy.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 13 November 202628 issues · 69 checks
This review found 28 issues worth fixing on sweetishcandy.com, 6 of them high impact, across 69 checks. The most urgent: 24 text elements with low contrast. 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
Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.0 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 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 958 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 988 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 989 ms |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 970 ms |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 92 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 91 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
1.3 s
1.9 s
2.5 s
3.2 s
3.8 s
4.4 s
5.1 s
Speed
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, Shopify and rechargecdn.com and others), adding 1.7 MB and 289 ms of main-thread time.
Klaviyo adds 136 ms
136 msKlaviyo costs a phone 136 ms of main-thread work and 389 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.
cloudfront.net adds 0 ms
0 mscloudfront.net costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 917 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.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 2.0 s
A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 717 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 6 ms
6 msYour server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Speed Index: 6.0 s
6.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.3 s
2.3 sThe first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+1%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 92 ms to 91 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
8 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: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors wait 1.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 119 ms
119 msReal visitors wait 119 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.01
0.01For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 0.9 s
0.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 540 ms
540 msReal visitors wait 540 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 11% faster for real visitors
-11%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.1 s to 1.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.9 MB in 249 requests
3.9 MBYour homepage downloads 3.9 MB in 249 requests on a phone: images 2.0 MB (28), scripts 866 KiB (100) and other files 754 KiB (95). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
Back_by_popular_demand_2.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).
1 image far larger than shown
163 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Glossy_Sweetish_Trademark.png at 2,159 px wide, shown at 130 px. Resized copies would save about 163 KiB.
About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit
1.10 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.10 g of CO₂e: 131.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Accessibility
24 text elements with low contrast
24 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (17 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 17 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
4 links without text
4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (4 elements)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 28 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
46 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 5 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
4 links crawlers can't follow
4 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
93 internal links, 15 external
The homepage links to 93 pages on sweetishcandy.com and 15 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 153 characters
Your meta description is 153 characters: “A Swedish candy company with Pick-n-Mix walls of over 70+ different Swedish candies, along with Swedish home goods and …”.
Title: 37 characters
Your title is a healthy 37 characters: “Sweetish Candy- A Swedish Candy Store”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.sweetishcandy.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization and WebSite.
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://www.sweetishcandy.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.sweetishcandy.com/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.
2 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 (465 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without a title
https://www.sweetishcandy.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
1 linked page hidden from search
https://www.sweetishcandy.com/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
1 page without a meta description
https://www.sweetishcandy.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
https://www.sweetishcandy.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 38 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
2 checks passed
Linked pages load
1 page of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Best practices
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
44 of 53 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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.
About 361 words of copy
The homepage carries about 361 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
12 calls to action
The homepage has 12 calls to action, for example “Buy now” and “Contact Us”.
17 short forms
17 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
7 trackers load before any consent
7Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 2 mores (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.
16 cookies set on arrival
16Opening the homepage sets 16 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.
25 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 25 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 sweetishcandy.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 4 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Aftersell · I Agree To Terms · rechargecdn.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
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Headquarters
- Lancaster
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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