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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

apixu.com

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Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

560 ms

Page Rendered

424 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apixu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 984 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apixu.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apixu.com

43 ms

weatherstack.com

68 ms

gtm.js

78 ms

icon-font.min.css

119 ms

font-awesome.min.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Apixu.com, 82% (37 requests) were made to Weatherstack.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (200 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.rawgit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

429.0 kB

After Optimization

356.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apixu.com main page is 429.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 260.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 39.9 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 43.2 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.2 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 39.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 97.3 kB
  • After minification 68.5 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, API Xu needs image optimization as it can save up to 28.8 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 260.9 kB
  • After minification 260.9 kB
  • After compression 258.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Apixu.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (26%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of API Xu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

apixu.com

apixu.com

43 ms

weatherstack.com

weatherstack.com

68 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

78 ms

icon-font.min.css

icon-font.min.css

119 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

45 ms

run_prettify.js

run_prettify.js

13 ms

prettify.css

prettify.css

70 ms

style.css

style.css

47 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

44 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

43 ms

api.js

api.js

51 ms

countries.js

countries.js

42 ms

weatherstack_logo_white.png

weatherstack_logo_white.png

134 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

141 ms

prettify.css

prettify.css

200 ms

mountains.svg

mountains.svg

74 ms

sun_loading.svg

sun_loading.svg

70 ms

client_deloitte.svg

client_deloitte.svg

78 ms

client_microsoft.svg

client_microsoft.svg

77 ms

client_warnerbros.svg

client_warnerbros.svg

68 ms

client_wawa.svg

client_wawa.svg

83 ms

client_schneider.svg

client_schneider.svg

80 ms

client_ericsson_2.svg

client_ericsson_2.svg

89 ms

world_map_vector.svg

world_map_vector.svg

83 ms

bg_waves_4.svg

bg_waves_4.svg

81 ms

client_white_daimler.svg

client_white_daimler.svg

87 ms

client_white_ericsson_2.svg

client_white_ericsson_2.svg

90 ms

client_white_schneider.svg

client_white_schneider.svg

97 ms

client_white_warnerbros.svg

client_white_warnerbros.svg

91 ms

client_white_wawa.svg

client_white_wawa.svg

100 ms

client_canda.svg

client_canda.svg

95 ms

client_mckinsey.svg

client_mckinsey.svg

111 ms

client_rimowa.svg

client_rimowa.svg

109 ms

weatherstack_logo_footer.png

weatherstack_logo_footer.png

107 ms

facebook-original.svg

facebook-original.svg

108 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

113 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

121 ms

twitter-original.svg

twitter-original.svg

120 ms

linkedin-original.svg

linkedin-original.svg

118 ms

Api-PopUp-Banner.png

Api-PopUp-Banner.png

121 ms

Promo-Bold.woff

Promo-Bold.woff

145 ms

Promo-Med.woff

Promo-Med.woff

130 ms

FriendlyFont.woff

FriendlyFont.woff

167 ms

Linearicons.ttf

Linearicons.ttf

145 ms

prettify.css

prettify.css

37 ms

Accessibility Review

apixu.com accessibility score

81

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

apixu.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

apixu.com SEO score

79

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

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

    UTF-8

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

apixu.com

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