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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

thehudsonvalleynews.com

The Hudson Valley News - Newspaper, News, Local News

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

862 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

190 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Hudson Valley News content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thehudsonvalleynews.com

Your newspaper for local news, art, events and entertainment from Dutchess County and beyond from the Hudson Valley News.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehudsonvalleynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 862 ms and then it took 1.6 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

thehudsonvalleynews.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehudsonvalleynews.com

862 ms

site_global.css

269 ms

master_master.css

206 ms

index.css

451 ms

hudsonvalleynews%2072.jpg

216 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Thehudsonvalleynews.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to Google.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (862 ms) belongs to the original domain Thehudsonvalleynews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.8 kB (33%)

Content Size

648.3 kB

After Optimization

434.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehudsonvalleynews.com main page is 648.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 319.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 10 B

  • Original 108 B
  • After minification 108 B
  • After compression 98 B

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. This web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 319.9 kB
  • After minification 302.4 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. The Hudson Valley News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 120.1 kB

  • Original 240.9 kB
  • After minification 240.7 kB
  • After compression 120.8 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 120.1 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 76.2 kB

  • Original 87.4 kB
  • After minification 67.1 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Thehudsonvalleynews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (49%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hudson Valley 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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thehudsonvalleynews.com

862 ms

site_global.css

site_global.css

269 ms

master_master.css

master_master.css

206 ms

index.css

index.css

451 ms

hudsonvalleynews%2072.jpg

hudsonvalleynews%2072.jpg

216 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

95 ms

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124 ms

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415 ms

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323 ms

sdk.js

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323 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

25 ms

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28 ms

collect

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22 ms

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96 ms

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111 ms

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205 ms

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205 ms

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310 ms

hvw_logo.png

hvw_logo.png

294 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

16 ms

cse.js

cse.js

44 ms

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hvn%20icon.jpg

292 ms

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277 ms

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twitter_bw.jpg

278 ms

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hvn_ig.jpg

331 ms

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336 ms

collect

collect

113 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

36 ms

cse.js

cse.js

153 ms

museutils.js

museutils.js

374 ms

whatinput.js

whatinput.js

344 ms

jquery.musemenu.js

jquery.musemenu.js

343 ms

webpro.js

webpro.js

592 ms

musewpslideshow.js

musewpslideshow.js

442 ms

jquery.museoverlay.js

jquery.museoverlay.js

391 ms

touchswipe.js

touchswipe.js

423 ms

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ca-pub-9777700056979207.js

63 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

127 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

57 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

32 ms

osd.js

osd.js

60 ms

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jsapi

88 ms

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48 ms

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xd_arbiter.php

60 ms

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35 ms

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85 ms

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49 ms

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default.css

26 ms

Accessibility Review

thehudsonvalleynews.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

thehudsonvalleynews.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thehudsonvalleynews.com SEO score

85

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thehudsonvalleynews.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 Thehudsonvalleynews.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

thehudsonvalleynews.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Hudson Valley 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: