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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

greatweather.co.uk

UK Weather & Climate Directory - Forecasts & Charts

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

760 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

611 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatweather.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 760 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatweather.co.uk performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,360 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatweather.co.uk

760 ms

weather.css

169 ms

all.js

10 ms

toplogo_792x100.gif

419 ms

spring0801.jpg

357 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Greatweather.co.uk, 12% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (911 ms) relates to the external source Apikeys.civiccomputing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 189.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

499.8 kB

After Optimization

310.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatweather.co.uk main page is 499.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 221.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 82.3 kB

  • Original 114.4 kB
  • After minification 112.8 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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 82.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 221.2 kB
  • After minification 213.9 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. Great Weather images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 97.7 kB

  • Original 162.0 kB
  • After minification 161.8 kB
  • After compression 64.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 97.7 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 496 B

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. Greatweather.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (29%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

greatweather.co.uk

greatweather.co.uk

760 ms

weather.css

weather.css

169 ms

all.js

all.js

10 ms

toplogo_792x100.gif

toplogo_792x100.gif

419 ms

spring0801.jpg

spring0801.jpg

357 ms

atveal.gif

atveal.gif

265 ms

atveal15.gif

atveal15.gif

444 ms

summer1401.jpg

summer1401.jpg

526 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

22 ms

summer1402a.jpg

summer1402a.jpg

544 ms

ca-pub-2138953542283953.js

ca-pub-2138953542283953.js

135 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

134 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

77 ms

198 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

58 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

144 ms

ads

ads

354 ms

osd.js

osd.js

21 ms

ads

ads

294 ms

autumn0903.jpg

autumn0903.jpg

308 ms

ads

ads

285 ms

summer1404.jpg

summer1404.jpg

380 ms

spring1005.jpg

spring1005.jpg

272 ms

cookieControl-6.2.min.js

cookieControl-6.2.min.js

723 ms

abg.js

abg.js

17 ms

9861231137470039036

9861231137470039036

11 ms

s

s

7 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

9 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

46 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

32 ms

banner

banner

111 ms

fBnyGA8Aionz5086-mElmoOSPUuyQ1M9Un647_EjucU.js

fBnyGA8Aionz5086-mElmoOSPUuyQ1M9Un647_EjucU.js

5 ms

adServer.bs

adServer.bs

138 ms

IconOnlyCollisionMarker.png

IconOnlyCollisionMarker.png

79 ms

CollisionAdMarker.png

CollisionAdMarker.png

87 ms

smds

smds

60 ms

oxds

oxds

54 ms

Retargeting_Banner_728x90_default.jpg

Retargeting_Banner_728x90_default.jpg

23 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

17 ms

v

v

911 ms

like.php

like.php

86 ms

qeKvIRsJabD.js

qeKvIRsJabD.js

30 ms

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

18 ms

Accessibility Review

greatweather.co.uk accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

greatweather.co.uk 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

greatweather.co.uk SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Greatweather.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Greatweather.co.uk 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

greatweather.co.uk

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