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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

golfweather.com

Get your Weather Forecast for your local Golf Course

Page Load Speed

18.4 sec in total

First Response

8.6 sec

Resources Loaded

9.5 sec

Page Rendered

235 ms

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About Website

Visit golfweather.com now to see the best up-to-date Golf Weather content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about golfweather.com

Golfweather.com is focused on the delivery of accurate weather forecasts pin pointed to your local golf course.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Golfweather.com page load time and found that the first response time was 8.6 sec and then it took 9.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

golfweather.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

golfweather.com

8591 ms

jquery.min.js

15 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

36 ms

cufon-yui-dist.js

13 ms

omegact_ct.font-dist.js

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Golfweather.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Golfweather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

778.7 kB

After Optimization

689.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Golfweather.com main page is 778.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 553.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.6 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 41.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 553.9 kB
  • After minification 524.4 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. Golf Weather images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 120.8 kB
  • After minification 120.8 kB
  • After compression 110.4 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.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 54.4 kB
  • After minification 54.4 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Golfweather.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (36%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Golf 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

golfweather.com

golfweather.com

8591 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

15 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

36 ms

cufon-yui-dist.js

cufon-yui-dist.js

13 ms

omegact_ct.font-dist.js

omegact_ct.font-dist.js

208 ms

gbi_clockdown-dist3.js

gbi_clockdown-dist3.js

34 ms

style_golfweather_v2.css

style_golfweather_v2.css

289 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

32 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

34 ms

style_golfweather.css

style_golfweather.css

31 ms

select2_metro.css

select2_metro.css

42 ms

jquery.gritter.css

jquery.gritter.css

274 ms

geocode.js

geocode.js

43 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

43 ms

twitter-bootstrap-hover-dropdown.min.js

twitter-bootstrap-hover-dropdown.min.js

51 ms

handlebars.js

handlebars.js

57 ms

typeahead.bundle.js

typeahead.bundle.js

354 ms

fend.js

fend.js

59 ms

jquery.gritter.js

jquery.gritter.js

68 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

110 ms

bg_pattern.png

bg_pattern.png

67 ms

appdl-iphone.png

appdl-iphone.png

89 ms

appdl-android.png

appdl-android.png

511 ms

icons-social.png

icons-social.png

226 ms

get_socialbtn.jpg

get_socialbtn.jpg

66 ms

topbar-btn.png

topbar-btn.png

324 ms

platformbtn.jpg

platformbtn.jpg

67 ms

banner-server.png

banner-server.png

68 ms

US-24.png

US-24.png

88 ms

header-graphicsbg.png

header-graphicsbg.png

89 ms

golfweather.png

golfweather.png

350 ms

SP_728X90_1.jpg

SP_728X90_1.jpg

90 ms

weatherbox_light.jpg

weatherbox_light.jpg

371 ms

cloudy_64.png

cloudy_64.png

189 ms

glyphicons-halflings.png

glyphicons-halflings.png

198 ms

cloudy_24.png

cloudy_24.png

396 ms

sunny_24.png

sunny_24.png

423 ms

wind_24.png

wind_24.png

513 ms

rain_24.png

rain_24.png

542 ms

mobile.jpg

mobile.jpg

385 ms

widget.jpg

widget.jpg

397 ms

reviews.jpg

reviews.jpg

403 ms

missing.jpg

missing.jpg

407 ms

tips_img01.jpg

tips_img01.jpg

414 ms

wschool.jpg

wschool.jpg

420 ms

SP_300x250_001.jpg

SP_300x250_001.jpg

422 ms

get_socialbg.jpg

get_socialbg.jpg

395 ms

icon_social.png

icon_social.png

586 ms

footerlogo_bg.png

footerlogo_bg.png

394 ms

ga.js

ga.js

22 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

mtc.js

mtc.js

12 ms

collect

collect

27 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

28 ms

Accessibility Review

golfweather.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

golfweather.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

golfweather.com SEO score

85

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Golfweather.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 Golfweather.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

golfweather.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Golf 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: