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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

statesnews.org

StatesNews, Your Source for Daily State and CSG News

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

721 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

632 ms

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About Website

Welcome to statesnews.org homepage info - get ready to check States News best content right away, or after learning these important things about statesnews.org

The Council of State Governments provides the only regional network for identifying and sharing ideas with state leaders. The mission of StatesNews is to provide you with daily and weekly state and CS...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Statesnews.org page load time and found that the first response time was 721 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

statesnews.org performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

721 ms

statesnews.org-state.gif

276 ms

statesnews.org-header2.gif

446 ms

statesnews.org-regions.gif

362 ms

statesnews.org-Dailynews.gif

372 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Statesnews.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Topsingaporehotels.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 107.6 kB (89%)

Content Size

121.1 kB

After Optimization

13.5 kB

  • HTML

In fact, the total size of Statesnews.org main page is 121.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 121.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 107.6 kB

  • Original 121.1 kB
  • After minification 101.6 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 19.5 kB, which is 16% 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 107.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of States News. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

721 ms

statesnews.org-state.gif

statesnews.org-state.gif

276 ms

statesnews.org-header2.gif

statesnews.org-header2.gif

446 ms

statesnews.org-regions.gif

statesnews.org-regions.gif

362 ms

statesnews.org-Dailynews.gif

statesnews.org-Dailynews.gif

372 ms

statesnews.org-Programs.gif

statesnews.org-Programs.gif

489 ms

statesnews.org-Policy.gif

statesnews.org-Policy.gif

500 ms

statesnews.org-AboutCSG.gif

statesnews.org-AboutCSG.gif

455 ms

statesnews.org-prodserv.gif

statesnews.org-prodserv.gif

540 ms

statesnews.org-Events.gif

statesnews.org-Events.gif

555 ms

statesnews.org-otherresources.gif

statesnews.org-otherresources.gif

622 ms

statesnews.org-CSGPresswhite.gif

statesnews.org-CSGPresswhite.gif

636 ms

statesnews.org-stars.gif

statesnews.org-stars.gif

680 ms

statesnews.org-onlinestore.gif

statesnews.org-onlinestore.gif

695 ms

statesnews.org-specialedition.gif

statesnews.org-specialedition.gif

808 ms

statesnews.org-anthrax.gif

statesnews.org-anthrax.gif

830 ms

statesnews.org-statement.gif

statesnews.org-statement.gif

800 ms

statesnews.org-suggestedlegis.gif

statesnews.org-suggestedlegis.gif

819 ms

statesnews.org-Americanflag.gif

statesnews.org-Americanflag.gif

869 ms

statesnews.org-election2001.gif

statesnews.org-election2001.gif

894 ms

statesnews.org-inthenewsbutton.gif

statesnews.org-inthenewsbutton.gif

975 ms

statesnews.org-govstreet.gif

statesnews.org-govstreet.gif

988 ms

statesnews.org-statesinfo.gif

statesnews.org-statesinfo.gif

1004 ms

statesnews.org-MORENEWS.gif

statesnews.org-MORENEWS.gif

1008 ms

Accessibility Review

statesnews.org accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

statesnews.org best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

statesnews.org SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Statesnews.org 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 Statesnews.org 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

statesnews.org

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