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Whois & Analysis for westword.com

Nov 10, 2019 11:15 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
• Age
30 years, 7 months, 17 days
• Alexa Rank
#24.353, westword.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 COMODO CA Limited has expired on August 18, 2020.
Title Tag
Denver Westword | The Leading Independent News Source in Denver, Colorado
Length: 73 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Original reporting and compelling writing on local news, restaurants, arts and culture have made Denver Westword a vital resource for readers who want to understand and engage with their community.
Length: 197 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

Denver Westword | The Leading Independent News Source in Denver, Color...

https://westword.com

Original reporting and compelling writing on local news, restaurants, arts and culture have made Denver Westword a vital resource for readers who want to understand...

Mobile Version

https://westword.com

Denver Westword | The Leading Independent News Source in Denver, Color...

Original reporting and compelling writing on local news, restaurants, arts and culture have made Denver Westword a vital resource...

Encoding
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URL Resolve

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URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1

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 westword.com.

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

Topics
Denver Confidence: 81% Arrow up

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

Denver is in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.

The Denver downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile above sea level, making it the highest major city in the United States.

The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the longitudinal reference for the Mountain Time Zone, passes directly through Denver Union Station.

Westword Confidence: 75% Arrow up

Westword is a free alternative weekly newspaper based in Denver, Colorado.

Westword was established independently in 1977.

In 1983 it was bought by New Times Media.

In 2005, New Times acquired Village Voice Media, and changed its name to Village Voice Media.

In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed Voice Media Group.

Journalism Confidence: 68% Arrow up

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree.

The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles.

Journalistic media include: print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels.

Culture Confidence: 67% Arrow
Writing Confidence: 65% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

2.2s

This domain loads at the median speed of 2.2 seconds.

Speed Percentile

36%

westword.com is faster than approximately 36 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 #24.353 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • westword.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 5 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (86.1%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (13.9%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #116.708
Flag for IsraelIsrael #13.070
Flag for PakistanPakistan #16.466
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #5.802
Flag for CanadaCanada #33.538

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 35% #ffffff
  • 32% #000000
  • 8% #a0d0f0
  • 5% #f0f0f0
  • 4% #000010
  • 3% #b0e0f0
  • 3% #001010
  • 1% #c0e0f0
  • 1% #f0f0ff
  • 0% #605040
  • 0% #003040
  • 0% #fff0f0

Text/code ratio

westword.com's text/code ratio is 6.17%. 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 6.17%

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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  • <H1> 2
  • <H2> 20
  • <H3> 31
  • <H4> 2
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Connect. discover. share.
Newsletters
<H2>
2nd level heading
Top stories
Latest news
Trending news
Latest food & drink
Trending food & drink
<H3>

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

3rd level heading
Rtd sees a future that runs on transit — but first, a crisis
Suds ’n' buds: lagunitas brings hoppy cannabis drinks to colorado
Coloradans tell daca recipients they're "here to stay"
All the restaurant and bar openings and closings this week
Controversial ınitiative claims to solve colorado's growing pains
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4th level heading
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We found 69 images on this website.
4 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

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 4 images on westword.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.

  • Facebook iconFacebook
  • Total Engagement 2.289
  • Likes 90
  • Shares 2.175
  • Comments 24

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar GODADDY.COM, LLC
Registration Date 06/21/1995 30 years, 7 months, 17 days ago
Last Modified 10/21/2019 6 years, 3 months, 14 days ago
Expiration Date 06/20/2021 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns73.domaincontrol.com 97.74.106.47 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns74.domaincontrol.com 173.201.74.47 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Secured Servers LLC
  • IP Address
  • 199.204.20.205
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Arizona , Phoenix
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 33.4484 : -112.074
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