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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

weather.cairns.com.au

Cairns Weather Forecast | Cairns Weather News | Cairns Post

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

849 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

532 ms

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About Website

Visit weather.cairns.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Weather Cairns content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about weather.cairns.com.au

Cairns Local Weather Forecast and Cairns Weather News including Local Queensland and Cairns Storm Warnings. Read more Cairns Weather Forecast at The Cairns Post

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weather.cairns.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 849 ms and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weather.cairns.com.au performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value50.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80,090 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value115.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weather.cairns.com.au

849 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

985 ms

animator-1.latest.min.js

33 ms

jquery-ui-custom.min.css

591 ms

master_web.css

401 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Weather.cairns.com.au, 10% (11 requests) were made to Data.weatherzone.com.au and 7% (8 requests) were made to Tags.news.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Gs.weatherzone.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 848.0 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

713.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Weather.cairns.com.au main page is 1.6 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. 80% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 184.4 kB

  • Original 230.0 kB
  • After minification 214.7 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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 184.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 222.5 kB
  • After minification 219.1 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. Weather Cairns images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 571.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 439.6 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 571.5 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 88.6 kB

  • Original 98.0 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. Weather.cairns.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 88.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (58%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weather Cairns. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

weather.cairns.com.au

weather.cairns.com.au

849 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

985 ms

animator-1.latest.min.js

animator-1.latest.min.js

33 ms

jquery-ui-custom.min.css

jquery-ui-custom.min.css

591 ms

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401 ms

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399 ms

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789 ms

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588 ms

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595 ms

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animator.css

587 ms

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553 ms

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119 ms

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349 ms

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42 ms

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210 ms

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207 ms

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208 ms

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208 ms

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891 ms

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974 ms

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869 ms

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201 ms

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764 ms

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762 ms

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666 ms

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666 ms

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666 ms

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669 ms

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668 ms

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738 ms

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669 ms

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670 ms

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1199 ms

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740 ms

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744 ms

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744 ms

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728 ms

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717 ms

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210 ms

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340 ms

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341 ms

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Accessibility Review

weather.cairns.com.au accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

weather.cairns.com.au best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

weather.cairns.com.au SEO score

54

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Weather.cairns.com.au 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 Weather.cairns.com.au 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

weather.cairns.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Weather Cairns. 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: