Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

indyweatherauthority.com

Indianapolis Weather, 7 Day Forecast, & Radar | CBS4Indy

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

393 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Indyweatherauthority.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

indyweatherauthority.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value67.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

indyweatherauthority.com

48 ms

24 ms

amzn_ads.js

56 ms

ooya9.js

95 ms

104 ms

Our browser made a total of 203 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Indyweatherauthority.com, 5% (11 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (11 requests) were made to S2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (671 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.tribtv.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (50%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Indyweatherauthority.com main page is 3.5 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 249.9 kB

  • Original 324.6 kB
  • After minification 321.6 kB
  • After compression 74.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 249.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 995.9 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Indy Weather Authority images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 683.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 3.9 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Indyweatherauthority.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 121 (69%)

Requests Now

176

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 176 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Indy Weather Authority. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

indyweatherauthority.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

indyweatherauthority.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

indyweatherauthority.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Indyweatherauthority.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Indyweatherauthority.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Indy Weather Authority. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: