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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

weathernetwork.com

The Weather Network: Weather forecasts, maps, news and videos

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

183 ms

About Website

Welcome to weathernetwork.com homepage info - get ready to check Weather Network best content right away, or after learning these important things about weathernetwork.com

Find the most current, accurate and reliable weather forecasts and conditions with The Weather Network.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weathernetwork.com page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weathernetwork.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.342

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weathernetwork.com

69 ms

us

169 ms

loader.js

48 ms

polyfill.min.js

215 ms

wxcodes_en_us.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Weathernetwork.com, 61% (23 requests) were made to S1.twnmm.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Theweathernetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (215 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 105.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

701.4 kB

After Optimization

596.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Weathernetwork.com main page is 701.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 563.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 105.1 kB

  • Original 138.0 kB
  • After minification 133.4 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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. 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 105.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 563.3 kB
  • After minification 563.3 kB
  • After compression 563.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (79%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weather Network. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

weathernetwork.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

weathernetwork.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

weathernetwork.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Weathernetwork.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 Weathernetwork.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 description is not detected on the main page of Weather Network. 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: