Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

madis.noaa.gov

NCEP Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)

Page Load Speed

437 ms in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

241 ms

Page Rendered

159 ms

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MADIS (Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System)

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Key Findings

We analyzed Madis.noaa.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 400 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

madis.noaa.gov performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

madis.noaa.gov

37 ms

madis.ncep.noaa.gov

69 ms

header.css

13 ms

ncepmadis.css

28 ms

ie.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Madis.noaa.gov, 74% (14 requests) were made to Madis.ncep.noaa.gov and 21% (4 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (83 ms) relates to the external source Madis.ncep.noaa.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.2 kB (32%)

Content Size

431.7 kB

After Optimization

292.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Madis.noaa.gov main page is 431.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 300.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 4.1 kB, which is 14% 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 23.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 42.6 kB

  • Original 300.9 kB
  • After minification 258.3 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, MADIS Noaa needs image optimization as it can save up to 42.6 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 57.4 kB

  • Original 82.3 kB
  • After minification 45.0 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 57.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 10.8 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Madis.noaa.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (29%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MADIS Noaa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

madis.noaa.gov accessibility score

84

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

madis.noaa.gov best practices score

67

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

madis.noaa.gov SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Madis.noaa.gov 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 Madis.noaa.gov 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 description is not detected on the main page of MADIS Noaa. 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: