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stage.intellicast.com

Intellicast - Local and National Weather Forecast, Radar, Maps and Severe Report

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

285 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stage.intellicast.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 1.4 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

stage.intellicast.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

stage.intellicast.com

98 ms

normalize.rexive.css

59 ms

main_20160121.css

59 ms

Stylesheet_20131220.css

56 ms

modernizr.min.js

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Stage.intellicast.com, 59% (47 requests) were made to Images.intellicast.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Dsx.weather.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (486 ms) relates to the external source Dsx.weather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 979.5 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

675.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Stage.intellicast.com main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 62.4 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 61.6 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 13.6 kB, which is 18% 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 62.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 309.3 kB
  • After minification 302.5 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. Stage Intellicast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 877.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 352.0 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 877.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 40.9 kB
  • After minification 26.6 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Stage.intellicast.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (60%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stage Intellicast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

stage.intellicast.com SEO score

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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 Stage.intellicast.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 Stage.intellicast.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 Stage Intellicast. 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: