Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

midhudsonnews.com

Hudson Valley News - Daily Breaking Stories | Mid Hudson News

Page Load Speed

26.6 sec in total

First Response

457 ms

Resources Loaded

16.7 sec

Page Rendered

9.4 sec

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About Website

Visit midhudsonnews.com now to see the best up-to-date Mid Hudson News content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about midhudsonnews.com

Mid Hudson News has been serving the Hudson Valley and Catskills for over 20 years with the most up to date and timely news reports daily. Read the Latest Stories

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Key Findings

We analyzed Midhudsonnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 457 ms and then it took 26.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

midhudsonnews.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

midhudsonnews.com

457 ms

MHNN.css

194 ms

swfobject_modified.js

223 ms

SNP_movein.css

254 ms

SNP_movein.js

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Midhudsonnews.com, 13% (14 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 9% (9 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) relates to the external source Bs.serving-sys.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 527.6 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

644.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Midhudsonnews.com main page is 1.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 809.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 51.4 kB

  • Original 63.6 kB
  • After minification 56.7 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 7.0 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 51.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 268.2 kB
  • After minification 260.1 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. Mid Hudson News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 446.1 kB

  • Original 809.5 kB
  • After minification 799.4 kB
  • After compression 363.4 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 446.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 30.6 kB
  • After minification 27.3 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. Midhudsonnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (46%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mid Hudson News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

midhudsonnews.com 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

midhudsonnews.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

midhudsonnews.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Midhudsonnews.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 Midhudsonnews.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mid Hudson News. 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: