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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

stormhighway.com

Lightning, Tornadoes, Storm Chasing, St. Louis and Extreme Weather by Dan Robinson

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

621 ms

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About Website

Visit stormhighway.com now to see the best up-to-date Storm Highway content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about stormhighway.com

Extensive Weather, storms, severe weather and photography site by Dan Robinson

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stormhighway.com page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stormhighway.com performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stormhighway.com

159 ms

stormhighway.com

224 ms

mainstyle.css

22 ms

jquery-3.7.0.min.js

24 ms

mainbg-sub2016c.jpg

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Stormhighway.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Stormhighway.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

878.0 kB

After Optimization

823.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stormhighway.com main page is 878.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 803.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 40.6 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 33.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 803.7 kB
  • After minification 782.6 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. Storm Highway images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 30.3 kB
  • After minification 30.3 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 544 B

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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. Stormhighway.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 544 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (11%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

59

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Storm Highway. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stormhighway.com

stormhighway.com

159 ms

stormhighway.com

stormhighway.com

224 ms

mainstyle.css

mainstyle.css

22 ms

jquery-3.7.0.min.js

jquery-3.7.0.min.js

24 ms

mainbg-sub2016c.jpg

mainbg-sub2016c.jpg

182 ms

bg-black.png

bg-black.png

155 ms

maintop-2016a-1.png

maintop-2016a-1.png

240 ms

maintop-2020a-2.png

maintop-2020a-2.png

174 ms

maintop-2016a-3.png

maintop-2016a-3.png

19 ms

topshadow.jpg

topshadow.jpg

171 ms

maincelltopbg.jpg

maincelltopbg.jpg

170 ms

byline.jpg

byline.jpg

296 ms

pager2014.gif

pager2014.gif

184 ms

30years.png

30years.png

326 ms

youtube.gif

youtube.gif

185 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

192 ms

rss.gif

rss.gif

198 ms

plains2024.jpg

plains2024.jpg

320 ms

2024best.jpg

2024best.jpg

349 ms

f-2353p.jpg

f-2353p.jpg

351 ms

may25promo.jpg

may25promo.jpg

352 ms

may21promo.jpg

may21promo.jpg

432 ms

may10promo.jpg

may10promo.jpg

487 ms

may6promo.jpg

may6promo.jpg

477 ms

april27promo.jpg

april27promo.jpg

495 ms

april26promo.jpg

april26promo.jpg

494 ms

april18promo.jpg

april18promo.jpg

505 ms

april8promo.jpg

april8promo.jpg

572 ms

april2promo.jpg

april2promo.jpg

663 ms

march14promo.jpg

march14promo.jpg

653 ms

feb16promo.jpg

feb16promo.jpg

638 ms

feb8promo.jpg

feb8promo.jpg

652 ms

jan15promo.jpg

jan15promo.jpg

667 ms

july29promo.jpg

july29promo.jpg

724 ms

june30promo.jpg

june30promo.jpg

815 ms

30years1.jpg

30years1.jpg

810 ms

bloghead.jpg

bloghead.jpg

804 ms

2024tornadoes.jpg

2024tornadoes.jpg

810 ms

may10promo.jpg

may10promo.jpg

804 ms

js

js

50 ms

april26promo.jpg

april26promo.jpg

862 ms

eclipsepromo.jpg

eclipsepromo.jpg

943 ms

august10-home.jpg

august10-home.jpg

812 ms

july19-home.jpg

july19-home.jpg

802 ms

dec1-home.jpg

dec1-home.jpg

802 ms

michael-home.jpg

michael-home.jpg

805 ms

g-4535.jpg

g-4535.jpg

1207 ms

g-4665.jpg

g-4665.jpg

949 ms

f-0402.jpg

f-0402.jpg

944 ms

promo.jpg

promo.jpg

939 ms

elreno.jpg

elreno.jpg

943 ms

mythbusters1.jpg

mythbusters1.jpg

902 ms

e-3272.jpg

e-3272.jpg

1041 ms

tornado-photos.jpg

tornado-photos.jpg

969 ms

lightning-photos.jpg

lightning-photos.jpg

971 ms

st-louis-photos.jpg

st-louis-photos.jpg

934 ms

gallery.jpg

gallery.jpg

953 ms

protection.jpg

protection.jpg

1086 ms

faithbt.jpg

faithbt.jpg

1005 ms

extreme_weather_information.jpg

extreme_weather_information.jpg

982 ms

chaselogbt2.jpg

chaselogbt2.jpg

959 ms

st_louis_photos.jpg

st_louis_photos.jpg

992 ms

tv_credits.jpg

tv_credits.jpg

905 ms

ceicon.jpg

ceicon.jpg

904 ms

rssblog.gif

rssblog.gif

976 ms

rightarrow.gif

rightarrow.gif

889 ms

types.jpg

types.jpg

928 ms

baseshadow.jpg

baseshadow.jpg

928 ms

Accessibility Review

stormhighway.com accessibility score

50

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

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

stormhighway.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

stormhighway.com SEO score

81

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

stormhighway.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Storm Highway. 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: