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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% 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

weatherchannel.com

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

Page Load Speed

20.1 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

18.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

weatherchannel.com screenshot

About Website

Visit weatherchannel.com now to see the best up-to-date Weather Channel content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about weatherchannel.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 Weatherchannel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 19.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weatherchannel.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,520 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value55.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weatherchannel.com

194 ms

weather.com

18017 ms

eum.min.js

34 ms

helios.js

124 ms

main.28743e33013fc9f9ef31.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Weatherchannel.com, 72% (33 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 (18 sec) relates to the external source Weather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (70%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

595.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Weatherchannel.com main page is 2.0 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 157.6 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 1.4 MB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 267.7 kB
  • After minification 267.7 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 Channel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 39 B

  • Original 170.1 kB
  • After minification 170.1 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 (25%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weather Channel. 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

weatherchannel.com

weatherchannel.com

194 ms

weather.com

weather.com

18017 ms

eum.min.js

eum.min.js

34 ms

helios.js

helios.js

124 ms

main.28743e33013fc9f9ef31.js

main.28743e33013fc9f9ef31.js

51 ms

46202.lodash.c65b7fddb00e9273d487.js

46202.lodash.c65b7fddb00e9273d487.js

48 ms

dprSdkScript.js

dprSdkScript.js

60 ms

launch-a955fe322648.min.js

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67 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

140 ms

peel1.ext.df9c55.js

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57 ms

websdk.appsflyer.com

websdk.appsflyer.com

115 ms

ab5e7cbcfe73419b90ec491cd3b99fdbe581-prod.js

ab5e7cbcfe73419b90ec491cd3b99fdbe581-prod.js

105 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

407 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

26 ms

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97 ms

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96 ms

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96 ms

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97 ms

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100 ms

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99 ms

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99 ms

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101 ms

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97 ms

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104 ms

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101 ms

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100 ms

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102 ms

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104 ms

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106 ms

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105 ms

cicadainvasionupdate.jpg

cicadainvasionupdate.jpg

27 ms

AP24138508787097.jpg

AP24138508787097.jpg

25 ms

promo0517_severesetup.jpg

promo0517_severesetup.jpg

26 ms

HoustonSecrityCamTHUMB.jpg

HoustonSecrityCamTHUMB.jpg

28 ms

HOUSTONWINDTHUMB.jpg

HOUSTONWINDTHUMB.jpg

30 ms

BEAR%20HAS%20POOL%20DAY.jpg

BEAR%20HAS%20POOL%20DAY.jpg

29 ms

canadafire2.jpg

canadafire2.jpg

28 ms

GettyImages-1033242698.jpg

GettyImages-1033242698.jpg

31 ms

gator4_3.jpg

gator4_3.jpg

29 ms

us_wxhi1_1280x720.jpg

us_wxhi1_1280x720.jpg

35 ms

sunscreen1.jpg

sunscreen1.jpg

30 ms

eczema1.jpg

eczema1.jpg

32 ms

melanomaincoldernorthernstates.jpg

melanomaincoldernorthernstates.jpg

32 ms

sunscreennn.jpg

sunscreennn.jpg

34 ms

WORST%20STATES%20FOR%20YOUR%20SKIN.jpg

WORST%20STATES%20FOR%20YOUR%20SKIN.jpg

32 ms

BugBites4.jpg

BugBites4.jpg

34 ms

Accessibility Review

weatherchannel.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

weatherchannel.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

weatherchannel.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 Weatherchannel.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 Weatherchannel.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

weatherchannel.com

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