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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

theweatherchannelkids.com

National and Local Weather Radar, Daily Forecast, Hurricane and information from The Weather Channel and weather.com

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

895 ms

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Visit theweatherchannelkids.com now to see the best up-to-date The Weather Channel Kids content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theweatherchannelkids.com

The Weather Channel and weather.com provide a national and local weather forecast for cities, as well as weather radar, report and hurricane coverage

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theweatherchannelkids.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theweatherchannelkids.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theweatherchannelkids.com

42 ms

weather.com

508 ms

eum.min.js

63 ms

helios.js

154 ms

main.d53f85a63c3bf1505036.js

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theweatherchannelkids.com, 66% (31 requests) were made to S.w-x.co and 11% (5 requests) were made to Weather.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (508 ms) relates to the external source Weather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (74%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

499.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Theweatherchannelkids.com main page is 1.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 157.1 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 1.4 MB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 172.2 kB
  • After minification 172.2 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. The Weather Channel Kids images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 169.9 kB
  • After minification 169.9 kB
  • After compression 169.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (27%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Weather Channel Kids. 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

theweatherchannelkids.com

theweatherchannelkids.com

42 ms

weather.com

weather.com

508 ms

eum.min.js

eum.min.js

63 ms

helios.js

helios.js

154 ms

main.d53f85a63c3bf1505036.js

main.d53f85a63c3bf1505036.js

98 ms

46202.lodash.c65b7fddb00e9273d487.js

46202.lodash.c65b7fddb00e9273d487.js

88 ms

dprSdkScript.js

dprSdkScript.js

103 ms

launch-a955fe322648.min.js

launch-a955fe322648.min.js

51 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

118 ms

peel1.ext.df9c55.js

peel1.ext.df9c55.js

86 ms

websdk.appsflyer.com

websdk.appsflyer.com

100 ms

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c9089f89026ac58cd79ccfd9d46f8.main.js

85 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

383 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

16 ms

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S83YR-ULSS7-PCGQM-QZZQF-582ZW

102 ms

Auroras4.jpg

Auroras4.jpg

89 ms

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145 ms

BRAZIL%20HORSE%20FLOOD.jpg

BRAZIL%20HORSE%20FLOOD.jpg

87 ms

climatechange1.jpg

climatechange1.jpg

106 ms

petcomedy.jpg

petcomedy.jpg

112 ms

tornado3_10.jpg

tornado3_10.jpg

107 ms

MDAY4.jpg

MDAY4.jpg

113 ms

FEEDINGFRENZY1.jpg

FEEDINGFRENZY1.jpg

108 ms

promoRip-Current-Deaths-2018-22.jpg

promoRip-Current-Deaths-2018-22.jpg

111 ms

israinwatergoodforskinandhair.jpg

israinwatergoodforskinandhair.jpg

109 ms

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126 ms

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114 ms

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114 ms

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116 ms

MakeupWorkout.jpg

MakeupWorkout.jpg

115 ms

0509ensosnap.jpg

0509ensosnap.jpg

117 ms

1683741357305_MAKE_MOTHERS_DAY_FLOWERS_FRIENDLY_FOR_ALLERGY_SUFFERERS.jpg

1683741357305_MAKE_MOTHERS_DAY_FLOWERS_FRIENDLY_FOR_ALLERGY_SUFFERERS.jpg

70 ms

Auroras4.jpg

Auroras4.jpg

52 ms

BRAZIL%20HORSE%20FLOOD.jpg

BRAZIL%20HORSE%20FLOOD.jpg

52 ms

climatechange1.jpg

climatechange1.jpg

51 ms

petcomedy.jpg

petcomedy.jpg

52 ms

tornado3_10.jpg

tornado3_10.jpg

51 ms

MDAY4.jpg

MDAY4.jpg

57 ms

FEEDINGFRENZY1.jpg

FEEDINGFRENZY1.jpg

53 ms

promoRip-Current-Deaths-2018-22.jpg

promoRip-Current-Deaths-2018-22.jpg

56 ms

israinwatergoodforskinandhair.jpg

israinwatergoodforskinandhair.jpg

56 ms

us_wxhi1_1280x720.jpg

us_wxhi1_1280x720.jpg

61 ms

sunscreennn.jpg

sunscreennn.jpg

53 ms

0425sweatlymedisease2_0.jpg

0425sweatlymedisease2_0.jpg

55 ms

0425spf.jpg

0425spf.jpg

55 ms

MakeupWorkout.jpg

MakeupWorkout.jpg

59 ms

0509ensosnap.jpg

0509ensosnap.jpg

59 ms

Accessibility Review

theweatherchannelkids.com accessibility score

88

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

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

theweatherchannelkids.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theweatherchannelkids.com SEO score

86

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

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 Theweatherchannelkids.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 Theweatherchannelkids.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

theweatherchannelkids.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Weather Channel Kids. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: