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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    28% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

weather.co.uk

Charing Cross, England Weather Forecast and Conditions - The Weather Channel | Weather.com

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

330 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

247 ms

weather.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to weather.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Weather best content right away, or after learning these important things about weather.co.uk

Today’s and tonight’s Charing Cross, England weather forecast, weather conditions and Doppler radar from The Weather Channel and Weather.com

Visit weather.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Weather.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 330 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weather.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value30.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value45,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value64.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weather.co.uk

330 ms

423 ms

main.9ac215e630d25c1f7da8ea236938ba21.css

31 ms

icon

81 ms

uk-cold-weather-people.png

527 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Weather.co.uk, 32% (15 requests) were made to Weather.com and 17% (8 requests) were made to Dsx.weather.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (527 ms) relates to the external source Dsx.weather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.3 MB (46%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Weather.co.uk main page is 7.1 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. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 967.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 112.9 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 967.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 3.3 MB

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 needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 27% 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 916.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 388.9 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 916.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 149.7 kB

  • Original 181.7 kB
  • After minification 178.0 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (44%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

weather.co.uk

weather.co.uk

330 ms

423 ms

main.9ac215e630d25c1f7da8ea236938ba21.css

main.9ac215e630d25c1f7da8ea236938ba21.css

31 ms

icon

icon

81 ms

uk-cold-weather-people.png

uk-cold-weather-people.png

527 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

90 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

90 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

177 ms

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63 ms

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64 ms

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vendor.54f810f9c258c56a2b82.js

188 ms

common.54f810f9c258c56a2b82.js

common.54f810f9c258c56a2b82.js

183 ms

main.54f810f9c258c56a2b82.js

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176 ms

sn_lightning_storms_1.jpg

sn_lightning_storms_1.jpg

280 ms

twc_de_wolken_sonne.jpg

twc_de_wolken_sonne.jpg

279 ms

uk-weather-tues-sept5-thumbnail.png

uk-weather-tues-sept5-thumbnail.png

282 ms

rain_17.jpg

rain_17.jpg

279 ms

uk-slideshow-strange-weather-events.png

uk-slideshow-strange-weather-events.png

330 ms

irma_mon_eve.jpg

irma_mon_eve.jpg

329 ms

uk-ga-video-piano-flood.png

uk-ga-video-piano-flood.png

331 ms

the-weather-channel-compressor.png

the-weather-channel-compressor.png

101 ms

twc-logo-lockup.png

twc-logo-lockup.png

101 ms

georgia-logo-compressor.png

georgia-logo-compressor.png

141 ms

accessibility-icon-compressor.png

accessibility-icon-compressor.png

101 ms

bureau_banner_desktop.png

bureau_banner_desktop.png

101 ms

189 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

164 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

188 ms

loader.js

loader.js

203 ms

UiIcons-78df4e89d1713fa75fd5ba57696785e4.78df4e89d1713fa75fd5ba57696785e4.woff

UiIcons-78df4e89d1713fa75fd5ba57696785e4.78df4e89d1713fa75fd5ba57696785e4.woff

77 ms

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105 ms

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159 ms

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68 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

189 ms

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231 ms

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17 ms

adsct

adsct

349 ms

98 ms

load.js

load.js

129 ms

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impl.271-68-RELEASE.js

38 ms

container.html

container.html

104 ms

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pmk-201725014.32.js

14 ms

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tboptevent.html

4 ms

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26 ms

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77 ms

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109 ms

Accessibility Review

weather.co.uk accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

weather.co.uk 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

weather.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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