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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

rss.weather.com

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

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

978 ms

Page Rendered

165 ms

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About Website

Visit rss.weather.com now to see the best up-to-date Rss Weather content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rss.weather.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 Rss.weather.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 1.1 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

rss.weather.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value17,780 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rss.weather.com

178 ms

ext-divtools.js

32 ms

siteconfig.js

30 ms

global.css

49 ms

jquery-1.7.2-IE7-twccore.min.js

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Rss.weather.com, 26% (18 requests) were made to I.imwx.com and 14% (10 requests) were made to B.imwx.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (774 ms) relates to the external source D.1.odev.imwx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (71%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

455.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rss.weather.com main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 125.9 kB

  • Original 158.0 kB
  • After minification 147.8 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 125.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 104.3 kB
  • After minification 101.8 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. Rss Weather images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 817.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 287.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 817.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 162.4 kB

  • Original 196.6 kB
  • After minification 189.1 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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. Rss.weather.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 162.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (66%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rss 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 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rss.weather.com

rss.weather.com

178 ms

ext-divtools.js

ext-divtools.js

32 ms

siteconfig.js

siteconfig.js

30 ms

global.css

global.css

49 ms

jquery-1.7.2-IE7-twccore.min.js

jquery-1.7.2-IE7-twccore.min.js

80 ms

yui_modules_header_startup.js

yui_modules_header_startup.js

33 ms

pco

pco

111 ms

86.js

86.js

54 ms

a21_dfpp.js

a21_dfpp.js

65 ms

locObjects

locObjects

86 ms

global_grids.css

global_grids.css

17 ms

style_sheet.css

style_sheet.css

27 ms

wx-survey.js

wx-survey.js

52 ms

hugmedata

hugmedata

140 ms

recentsearchNew.js

recentsearchNew.js

11 ms

BrightcoveExperiences_all.js

BrightcoveExperiences_all.js

34 ms

APIModules_all.js

APIModules_all.js

33 ms

jsRollup

jsRollup

774 ms

rta.js

rta.js

18 ms

176945749.js

176945749.js

24 ms

adServer.aspx

adServer.aspx

27 ms

59191

59191

161 ms

ua.js

ua.js

67 ms

get.js

get.js

53 ms

pageimpression

pageimpression

20 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

50 ms

PHOTO_10119052_148597_24402235_ap_160X120.jpg

PHOTO_10119052_148597_24402235_ap_160X120.jpg

57 ms

poweredby-google.png

poweredby-google.png

45 ms

arrow_black.gif

arrow_black.gif

49 ms

lockup.png

lockup.png

65 ms

poweredbygoogle.gif

poweredbygoogle.gif

64 ms

searchbutton.gif

searchbutton.gif

63 ms

national_325.jpg

national_325.jpg

82 ms

iwwlogo_horiz171x20.gif

iwwlogo_horiz171x20.gif

81 ms

wxtools_image.jpg

wxtools_image.jpg

83 ms

globalnav.js

globalnav.js

13 ms

hat.js

hat.js

8 ms

sign_in_button.gif

sign_in_button.gif

27 ms

sm_quest_box.gif

sm_quest_box.gif

23 ms

sm_close_box.gif

sm_close_box.gif

40 ms

eventbroadcaster.js

eventbroadcaster.js

7 ms

latlonlocation

latlonlocation

65 ms

datasource27-min.js

datasource27-min.js

7 ms

autocomplete27-min.js

autocomplete27-min.js

10 ms

bg_input_5x5.gif

bg_input_5x5.gif

45 ms

headerNavplusYUITypeAhead.js

headerNavplusYUITypeAhead.js

6 ms

typeAheadDS2.js

typeAheadDS2.js

6 ms

icons_sprite.gif

icons_sprite.gif

55 ms

newsvideosprite.jpg

newsvideosprite.jpg

7 ms

redesign_0.jpg

redesign_0.jpg

20 ms

WUWA_Banner_115x76_justlogo.jpg

WUWA_Banner_115x76_justlogo.jpg

47 ms

PHOTO_10119052_148597_24402235_ap_160X120.jpg

PHOTO_10119052_148597_24402235_ap_160X120.jpg

8 ms

curwx_325x220.jpg

curwx_325x220.jpg

18 ms

storm_325.jpg

storm_325.jpg

128 ms

topstory_325.jpg

topstory_325.jpg

43 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

6 ms

pubads_impl_82.js

pubads_impl_82.js

11 ms

show_companion_ad.js

show_companion_ad.js

54 ms

ads

ads

299 ms

container.html

container.html

28 ms

impression

impression

11 ms

impression

impression

4 ms

impression

impression

6 ms

impression

impression

5 ms

impression

impression

7 ms

impression

impression

8 ms

impression

impression

8 ms

impression

impression

7 ms

impression

impression

9 ms

Accessibility Review

rss.weather.com accessibility score

81

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

rss.weather.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rss.weather.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

rss.weather.com

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