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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

weather.co.uk

Charing Cross, England Weather Forecast and Conditions - The Weather Channel | Weather.com

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

weather.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to weather.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Weather best content right away, or after learning these important things about weather.co.uk

Today’s and tonight’s Charing Cross, England weather forecast, weather conditions and Doppler radar from The Weather Channel and Weather.com

Visit weather.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Weather.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weather.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,200 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.148

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value47.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weather.co.uk

58 ms

UKXX0085:1:UK

1113 ms

eum.min.js

91 ms

helios.js

123 ms

main.a5aa72b4944a37c39dc5.js

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Weather.co.uk, 31% (5 requests) were made to Weather.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to S.w-x.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Weather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (79%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

364.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Weather.co.uk 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 152.6 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 1.3 MB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 536 B

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 41.3 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. Weather images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 39 B

  • Original 170.2 kB
  • After minification 170.2 kB
  • After compression 170.1 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 11 (79%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

weather.co.uk

weather.co.uk

58 ms

UKXX0085:1:UK

UKXX0085:1:UK

1113 ms

eum.min.js

eum.min.js

91 ms

helios.js

helios.js

123 ms

main.a5aa72b4944a37c39dc5.js

main.a5aa72b4944a37c39dc5.js

77 ms

46202.lodash.015b32192eea2db4e7ce.js

46202.lodash.015b32192eea2db4e7ce.js

75 ms

dprSdkScript.js

dprSdkScript.js

77 ms

launch-a955fe322648.min.js

launch-a955fe322648.min.js

46 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

134 ms

websdk.appsflyer.com

websdk.appsflyer.com

74 ms

746cf3f17fdf03c8e129b16da7.js

746cf3f17fdf03c8e129b16da7.js

76 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

357 ms

containerQuery.js

containerQuery.js

74 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

10 ms

WeatherImage_PartlyCloudy-day_3.jpg

WeatherImage_PartlyCloudy-day_3.jpg

65 ms

dynamic

dynamic

94 ms

Accessibility Review

weather.co.uk accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

weather.co.uk 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

weather.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Weather.co.uk 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 Weather.co.uk 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

weather.co.uk

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