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weather.cbs2chicago.com

Chicago Weather Forecasts and Conditions « CBS Chicago

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

744 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

599 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weather.cbs2chicago.com page load time and found that the first response time was 744 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weather.cbs2chicago.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

weather.cbs2chicago.com

744 ms

Chicago.html

906 ms

219 ms

css

176 ms

css

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 244 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Weather.cbs2chicago.com, 13% (31 requests) were made to Icons.wunderground.com and 9% (23 requests) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (906 ms) relates to the external source Weather.chicago.cbslocal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (58%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Weather.cbs2chicago.com main page is 5.2 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 281.9 kB

  • Original 358.4 kB
  • After minification 354.0 kB
  • After compression 76.5 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 281.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 57.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Weather CBS 2 Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 2.6 MB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.4 MB
  • After compression 931.0 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 2.6 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 114.8 kB

  • Original 143.9 kB
  • After minification 133.9 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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.cbs2chicago.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 114.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 129 (54%)

Requests Now

237

After Optimization

108

The browser has sent 237 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weather CBS 2 Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 86 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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.cbs2chicago.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 Weather.cbs2chicago.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 CBS 2 Chicago. 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: