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Performance

Renders faster than
44% of other websites
97

Accessibility

Visual factors better than
that of 92% of websites
67

Best Practices

More advanced features
available than in
24% of websites
86

SEO

Google-friendlier than
60% of websites

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

294 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weather.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,150 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

weather.ca

61 ms

us

48 ms

ads_detect.js

137 ms

pelm-en.css

198 ms

dfpad

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 169 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Weather.ca, 37% (63 requests) were made to S1.twnmm.com and 15% (26 requests) were made to S2.twnmm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (415 ms) relates to the external source S2.twnmm.com.

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

876.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Weather.ca main page is 1.8 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 241.0 kB

Original 302.7 kB
After minification 295.9 kB
After compression 61.7 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 241.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

Original 445.1 kB
After minification 427.5 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. Weather images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 714.4 kB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.1 MB
After compression 387.1 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 714.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Now

164

After Optimization

64

The browser has sent 164 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weather. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 88 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

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 Weather.ca 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 Weather.ca 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.ca

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