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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

xcweather.co.uk

Wind Map - Britain Observations

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

96 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Xcweather content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about xcweather.co.uk

Current weather observations and forecast. Providing near real time weather maps of wind strength and direction across the UK and Europe

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Key Findings

We analyzed Xcweather.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

xcweather.co.uk performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

xcweather.co.uk

225 ms

xcweather.co.uk

525 ms

ss21.min.css

251 ms

js

54 ms

adsbygoogle.js

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Xcweather.co.uk, 18% (2 requests) were made to Cmp.inmobi.com and 9% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (525 ms) belongs to the original domain Xcweather.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 208.8 kB (59%)

Content Size

353.2 kB

After Optimization

144.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Xcweather.co.uk main page is 353.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 284.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 208.7 kB

  • Original 284.2 kB
  • After minification 283.6 kB
  • After compression 75.5 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 208.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 90 B

  • Original 64.5 kB
  • After minification 64.5 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 19 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. Xcweather.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (33%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Xcweather. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

xcweather.co.uk

xcweather.co.uk

225 ms

xcweather.co.uk

xcweather.co.uk

525 ms

ss21.min.css

ss21.min.css

251 ms

js

js

54 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

111 ms

empty.gif

empty.gif

105 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

130 ms

choice.js

choice.js

447 ms

wind_mph.gif

wind_mph.gif

85 ms

w1714941553.gif

w1714941553.gif

251 ms

cmp2-polyfilled.js

cmp2-polyfilled.js

12 ms

Accessibility Review

xcweather.co.uk accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

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

xcweather.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

xcweather.co.uk SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Xcweather.co.uk 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 Xcweather.co.uk 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

xcweather.co.uk

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