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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

642weather.com

Long Beach Weather - Long Beach, Washington 98631 USA

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

642weather.com screenshot

About Website

Visit 642weather.com now to see the best up-to-date 642 Weather content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about 642weather.com

Live, local weather for Long Beach, WA USA 98631. Includes live webcam, radar, forecast, lightning detector, tides, and weather information.

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Key Findings

We analyzed 642weather.com page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

642weather.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

642weather.com

188 ms

weather

57 ms

1352 ms

weather-screen-blue-narrow.css

115 ms

ajaxWDwx.js

116 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original 642weather.com, 56% (45 requests) were made to Images.windalert.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Widgets.windalert.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.9 sec) belongs to the original domain 642weather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 422.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 642weather.com main page is 3.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 31.2 kB

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.5 kB, which is 34% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 31.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 136.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB

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. 642 Weather images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 253.4 kB

  • Original 348.2 kB
  • After minification 346.6 kB
  • After compression 94.7 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 253.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. 642weather.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (26%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

58

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 642 Weather. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

642weather.com

642weather.com

188 ms

weather

weather

57 ms

1352 ms

weather-screen-blue-narrow.css

weather-screen-blue-narrow.css

115 ms

ajaxWDwx.js

ajaxWDwx.js

116 ms

clientraw.txt

clientraw.txt

58 ms

long-beach-weather.jpg

long-beach-weather.jpg

334 ms

btn_donate_SM.gif

btn_donate_SM.gif

16 ms

image-webcam-thumb.php

image-webcam-thumb.php

287 ms

logo.php

logo.php

293 ms

facebook_64x64.png

facebook_64x64.png

279 ms

twitter_64x64.png

twitter_64x64.png

288 ms

rss.jpg

rss.jpg

288 ms

DualImage.php

DualImage.php

76 ms

DualImage.php

DualImage.php

75 ms

nra100.jpg

nra100.jpg

74 ms

DualImage.php

DualImage.php

148 ms

image-radar-page-1.php

image-radar-page-1.php

4858 ms

night_cloudy.gif

night_cloudy.gif

115 ms

thermometer.php

thermometer.php

145 ms

rising.gif

rising.gif

147 ms

falling.gif

falling.gif

148 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

172 ms

wr-SSW.png

wr-SSW.png

176 ms

moon26.gif

moon26.gif

178 ms

forecastTable

forecastTable

38 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

9 ms

model_table.css

model_table.css

6 ms

jquery-1.4.min.js

jquery-1.4.min.js

19 ms

model_table.js

model_table.js

25 ms

ga.js

ga.js

24 ms

getModelDataBySpot

getModelDataBySpot

50 ms

WindAlertWidgetLogo.png

WindAlertWidgetLogo.png

33 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

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286.png

14 ms

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275.png

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rain_b.gif

rain_b.gif

172 ms

cloud_4_b.gif

cloud_4_b.gif

175 ms

cloud_2_b.gif

cloud_2_b.gif

177 ms

cloud_1_b.gif

cloud_1_b.gif

179 ms

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248 ms

bg_col_grad_2.png

bg_col_grad_2.png

14 ms

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227 ms

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302 ms

weather-print.css

weather-print.css

147 ms

Accessibility Review

642weather.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

642weather.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

642weather.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 642weather.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that 642weather.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

642weather.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 642 Weather. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: