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weather.24.com

News24 | Weather Access

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

151 ms

weather.24.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Weather 24 content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about weather.24.com

South African Weather forecasts for all major cities and towns. 48 Hour - 7 Day Reports, Historical Climate Detail and Weather Advisory Service.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weather.24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weather.24.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

weather.24.com

1671 ms

Reset.css

440 ms

ext-all.css

899 ms

Common.css

669 ms

Modal.css

453 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Weather.24.com, 11% (9 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Weather.24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (76%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

476.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Weather.24.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. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 136.6 kB

  • Original 192.5 kB
  • After minification 190.3 kB
  • After compression 55.9 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. 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 136.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 85.8 kB

  • Original 118.1 kB
  • After minification 32.3 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. Obviously, Weather 24 needs image optimization as it can save up to 85.8 kB or 73% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 372.8 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 1.2 MB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 95.2 kB

  • Original 111.0 kB
  • After minification 88.4 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. Weather.24.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (69%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weather 24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

weather.24.com

weather.24.com

1671 ms

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ext-all.css

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899 ms

Common.css

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SEO Factors

weather.24.com SEO score

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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 Weather.24.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 Weather.24.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

weather.24.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Weather 24. 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: