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Whois & Analysis for roanoke.com

Nov 22, 2019 10:21 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner has chosen to keep his whois contact information private.
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
August 5, 1996 Explore Wayback Machine
• Alexa Rank
#30.691, roanoke.com is in the world's top 50.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by Let's Encrypt has expired on January 31, 2020.
Title Tag
roanoke.com | News, weather, and sports in Roanoke and Blacksburg, VA
Length: 69 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
The Roanoke Times is the leading source for breaking news, weather and sports news in Roanoke, Blacksburg, and Christiansburg, VA.
Length: 130 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

roanoke.com | News, weather, and sports in Roanoke and Blacksburg, VA

https://roanoke.com

The Roanoke Times is the leading source for breaking news, weather and sports news in Roanoke, Blacksburg, and Christiansburg, VA.

Mobile Version

https://roanoke.com

roanoke.com | News, weather, and sports in Roanoke and Blacksburg, VA

The Roanoke Times is the leading source for breaking news, weather and sports news in Roanoke, Blacksburg, and Christiansburg, VA.

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URL Resolve

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URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
author Roanoke Times
viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0, shrink-to-fit=no

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

The owner has associated the following topics to the website.

The results of our semantic analysis are shown below using the website's language.

They are the main concepts covered by roanoke.com.

Each concept has a confidence score. The higher it is, the more important the topic is relative to the page.

Topics
The Roanoke Times Confidence: 86% Arrow up

The Roanoke Times is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.

It is published by Berkshire Hathaway.

In addition to its headquarters in Roanoke, it maintains a bureau in Christiansburg, covering the eastern New River Valley and Virginia Tech.

Christiansburg, Virginia Confidence: 83% Arrow up

Christiansburg (formerly Hans Meadows) is a town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States.

The population was 21,041 at the 2010 census.

It is the county seat of Montgomery County.

Christiansburg, Blacksburg, and Radford are the three principal municipalities of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses those municipalities and all of Montgomery County.

Blacksburg, Virginia Confidence: 73% Arrow up

Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 42,620 at the 2010 census.

Blacksburg is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University).

Breaking news Confidence: 70% Arrow up

Breaking news, interchangeably termed latebreaking news and also known as a special report or special coverage or news bulletin, is a current issue that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming and/or current news in order to report its details.

Its use is also assigned to the most significant story of the moment or a story that is being covered live.

It could be a story that is simply of wide interest to viewers and has little impact otherwise.

Many times, breaking news is used after the news organization has already reported on the story.

When a story has not been reported on previously, the graphic and phrase "Just In" is sometimes used instead.

WEBSITE SPEED

roanoke.com website speed is normal. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

3.3s

This domain loads at the median speed of 3.3 seconds.

Speed Percentile

20%

roanoke.com is faster than approximately 20 percent of the web. Your website page speed needs to be as fast as you can make it, without compromising the customer experience.

A good goal to achieve is a loading time of 2 seconds on desktop and mobile devices.

PAGESPEED INSIGHTS

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TRAFFIC

This website is ranked #30.691 by Alexa.

This rank is traffic based. The lower the rank is, the better the domain is ranked.

Daily visitors by country

  • roanoke.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 3 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (95.1%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (6.6%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #6.296
Flag for CanadaCanada #42.696
Flag for PhilippinesPhilippines #20.992

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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How roanoke.com looks like on a mobile device such as an iPhone.

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How roanoke.com looks like on a tablet such as an iPad.

Main colors used

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  • 66% #000000
  • 15% #ffffff
  • 9% #7090a0
  • 2% #f0f0f0
  • 2% #90a0b0
  • 1% #607090
  • 0% #c0a090
  • 0% #fffff0
  • 0% #605050
  • 0% #e08040
  • 0% #304070
  • 0% #d07070

Text/code ratio

roanoke.com's text/code ratio is 1.92%. It's a bit low. Consider raising it by adding more text content of value for your visitors, or keeping your code clean.
Text / Code Ratio 1.92%

A good text to HTML ratio is anywhere from 25 to 70%.

This percentage refers to the visible text ratio, as opposed to HTML elements, image tags and other non-visible information.

Main HTML tags

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Great, we found headings on this page.

  • <H1> 0
  • <H2> 2
  • <H3> 22
  • <H4> 91
  • <H5> 8
  • <H6> 0

However, you have not defined a top level heading, or <H1>. It is used to define the most important heading.

We recommend using one top level heading to set up a semantic relationship between that heading and the remainder of the content on a page. It clearly describes to the readers and the search engines what it is about.

<H2>
2nd level heading
Christiansburg councilwoman-elect clashes with town over private meetings
From the archives: past fall images along the blue ridge parkway
<H3>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H3> tags are shown below.

3rd level heading
Your subscription helps guarantee local coverage keeps coming.
The latest
Top stories
Preservation foundation honors roanoke-area projects
Second set of e-scooters coming to roanoke in july
<H4>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H4> tags are shown below.

4th level heading
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Roanoke, va (24010)
Sports tv listings for friday nov. 22 (2)
Virginia tech not looking back with hendon hooker at the helm (3)
Arts & extras: messages woven in handmade paper (2)
<H5>
5th level heading
Today
Tonight
Casey: laid off after 62 years on the job
Landmark blacksburg bookstore set to close in december
Rocky mount woman sentenced to 6 months in death of toddler
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 90 images on this website.
2 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Image Image URL Occurrences
- data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt... 1
- {{image}} 1

Alternative text allows you to add a description to an image.

Google rely on alternative text attributes to determine relevance to a search query. Alternative text also makes an image more likely to appear in a Google image search.

It looks like you're missing alternative text for 2 images on roanoke.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

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The more people share your website, the more likely you will get links from others, which is a key point when it comes to improving your overall search engine rankings.

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  • Total Engagement 2.307
  • Likes 327
  • Shares 1.825
  • Comments 155
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