tlccandleco.com website review

Your mobile performance score is 75. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 800 ms.

About 87 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

11 images could be 143 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 2.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 946 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Polyfills for old browsers add 17 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (Clarity, Shopify and shgcdn3.com and others), adding 156 KiB and 182 ms of main-thread time.

About 32 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 93 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (80 KiB).

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.

Your largest element takes 6.5 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 7.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

8 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

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.

1 image (37 KiB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.54 g of CO₂e: 65.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

ARIA roles used must conform to valid values: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

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

6 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 42 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

4 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Structured data found (Organization, Product and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “Product: missing name”.

The homepage links to 81 pages on tlccandleco.com and 12 external pages.

https://tlccandleco.com/collections/travel, https://tlccandleco.com/collections/all-dough-bowls and https://tlccandleco.com/collections/all have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://tlccandleco.com/collections/all-candles, https://tlccandleco.com/collections/clean, https://tlccandleco.com/collections/earthy, https://tlccandleco.com/collections/holiday-favorites-soy-luxury-candles and https://tlccandleco.com/collections/all-discovery use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 32 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Unexpected identifier 'ShopifyXR'”.

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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 510 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Meta Pixel, Microsoft Clarity and TikTok Pixel (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 14 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 17 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.