themorningsun.com
Mount Pleasant, MI News, Sports, Weather, Things to Do
Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:23 PM
Overall score
Great
Summary
The Morning Sun is a local daily newspaper serving Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, and the broader Central Michigan region. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
The Morning Sun
The Morning Sun is a local daily newspaper serving Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, and the broader Central Michigan region.
- 311 E. Superior St, Alma, MI, 48801
- 25 employees
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
1.58 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Morning Sun
The Morning Sun is a local daily newspaper serving Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, and the broader Central Michigan region.
- Founded
- Jan 1, 1981
- Employees
- 25
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- Phone
- +19894636071
- Address
- 311 E. Superior St, Alma, MI, 48801
Meta tags
- Title
- Mount Pleasant, MI News, Sports, Weather, Things to Do
- Description
- The Morning Sun is the local news source for Mount Pleasant, Alma and more, providing breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, things to do, opinion, photos, videos and more from Isabella County and Gratiot County.
- Canonical
- https://www.themorningsun.com
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- www.themorningsun.com
- Valid from
- Jul 25, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 23, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 58
- SAN domains
- www.themorningsun.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 2 · H2 14 · H3 70
Links
117 internal · 38 external · 20 broken
Images
31 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
60 scripts · 9 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
15.4 KB · 43.8 KB
Page size
204 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- Multiple H1 headings found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://themorningsun.com
- Final URL
- https://www.themorningsun.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.58 s
- HTML size
- 204 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://themorningsun.com → https://www.themorningsun.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does themorningsun.com use?
- themorningsun.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Nginx.
- Is themorningsun.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. themorningsun.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 23, 2026.
- Who hosts themorningsun.com?
- Hosting provider information for themorningsun.com is not available yet.
- What is themorningsun.com's SEO score?
- themorningsun.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is themorningsun.com's overall website score?
- themorningsun.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates themorningsun.com?
- themorningsun.com is operated by The Morning Sun. The Morning Sun is a local daily newspaper serving Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, and the broader Central Michigan region.
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