Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

willitsnow.com

Severe Weather Warnings & Watches | AccuWeather

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

411 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Willitsnow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

willitsnow.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

willitsnow.com

146 ms

52866_poi

395 ms

site.min-20150623.css

16 ms

forecast-month.min-20101013.css

36 ms

minutecast.min-20140926.css

303 ms

Our browser made a total of 361 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Willitsnow.com, 23% (84 requests) were made to Maptiles.accuweather.com and 16% (59 requests) were made to Map-tiles.accuweather.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (894 ms) relates to the external source Maptiles.accuweather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (57%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Willitsnow.com main page is 3.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 338.2 kB

  • Original 423.1 kB
  • After minification 377.7 kB
  • After compression 84.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 45.4 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 338.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 124.6 kB

  • Original 828.1 kB
  • After minification 703.5 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. Obviously, Willitsnow needs image optimization as it can save up to 124.6 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 717.5 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 1.3 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 196.2 kB

  • Original 229.9 kB
  • After minification 229.6 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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. Willitsnow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 196.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 146 (50%)

Requests Now

291

After Optimization

145

The browser has sent 291 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Willitsnow. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

willitsnow.com accessibility score

86

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

willitsnow.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

willitsnow.com 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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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