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weather.gc.ca

Weather Information - Environment Canada

Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 10:25 PM · 1 view

67

Overall score

Fair

Summary

Environment Canada's weather web site provides official weather warnings, current conditions, forecasts, and weather models, for public and marine areas in Canada. This website uses Apache hosted on CDAGOVN - Shared Services Canada, CA. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance poor (30/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Environment Canada's weather web site provides official weather warnings, current conditions, forecasts, and weather models, for public and marine areas in Canada. Canadian weather RADAR, tropical storm tracking, lightning activity, UV index, and AQHI index values also available.

Canada
Hosted on CDAGOVN - Shared Services Canada, CA

Top issues to fix

9 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • Missing canonical link

    SEO

    Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

+3 more issues — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

30

Performance

1.06 s

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Environment Canada's weather web site provides official weather warnings, current conditions, forecasts, and weather models, for public and marine areas in Canada. Canadian weather RADAR, tropical storm tracking, lightning activity, UV index, and AQHI index values also available.

Meta tags

Title
Weather Information - Environment Canada
Description
Environment Canada's weather web site provides official weather warnings, current conditions, forecasts, and weather models, for public and marine areas in Canada. Canadian weather RADAR, tropical storm tracking, lightning activity, UV index, and AQHI index values also available.
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

CDN provider
IP address
205.189.10.44
ASN
AS2665 (CDAGOVN - Shared Services Canada, CA)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 205.189.10.44
  • 205.189.10.43
AAAA
MX
TXT
  • google-site-verification=SIqjcoezuRFxAex45iGrpZ2fJiczX5bAKVPiaOKU1Kk
NS
  • ns11.ent.global.gc.ca
  • ns40.ent.global.gc.ca
  • ns2.d-zone.ca
  • ns41.ent.global.gc.ca
  • ns1.d-zone.ca
  • ns10.ent.global.gc.ca
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Entrust Limited
Subject
*.weather.gc.ca
Valid from
Apr 30, 2026
Valid to
Nov 14, 2026
Days until expiry
112
SAN domains
*.weather.gc.ca, *.alpha.meteo.gc.ca, *.alpha.weather.gc.ca, *.beta.meteo.gc.ca, *.beta.weather.gc.ca, *.meteo.gc.ca, meteo.gc.ca, weather.gc.ca

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • Content-Security-PolicyMissing
  • X-Frame-OptionsMissing
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
  • Referrer-PolicyMissing
  • Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 17 · H3 7

Links

740 internal · 44 external · 1 broken

Images

4 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

17 scripts · 7 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

3.1 MB · 480 KB

Page size

1.5 MB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
6
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • Missing canonical link
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://weather.gc.ca
Final URL
https://weather.gc.ca
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/1.1
Response time
1.02 s
HTML size
1.5 MB
Redirect chain
https://weather.gc.ca

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does weather.gc.ca use?
weather.gc.ca is built with Vue.js, jQuery, Google Analytics, Apache.
Is weather.gc.ca secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. weather.gc.ca uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Entrust Limited, valid until Nov 14, 2026.
Who hosts weather.gc.ca?
weather.gc.ca is hosted on CDAGOVN - Shared Services Canada, CA.
What is weather.gc.ca's SEO score?
weather.gc.ca scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is weather.gc.ca's overall website score?
weather.gc.ca has an overall SiteGraph score of 67/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.