abcnews4.com Domain Owner Whois and Analysis

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

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

SEO SCORE

abcnews4.com
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✅ 8 criteria passed
❌ 3 criteria to solve

PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner

Private

• Category

News / Weather / Information

• Online since

May 31, 2002 Explore Wayback Machine

• Age

21 years, 10 months, 29 days

• Alexa Rank

#184.952, abcnews4.com is in the world's top 1 million websites

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

❌ SSL Certificate

This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by DigiCert Inc has expired on May 6, 2020.

✅ Title Tag

Charleston News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WCIV
Length: 54 (recommended: 10 to 70)

❌ Meta Description

WCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in the region, including North Charleston, Mt Pleasant, Summerville, Hanahan, Goose Creek, Rantowles, Cottageville, St George, Moncks Corner, Jacksonboro, Ravenel, Cottageville, Walterboro, Sullivans Island, Dewees Island and Folly Beach.
Length: 365 (recommended: 50 to 160)

ⓘ Google preview

Desktop Version

Charleston News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WCIV

https://abcnews4.com

WCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in the region, including North Charles...

Mobile Version

https://abcnews4.com

Charleston News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WCIV

WCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in...

❌ Encoding

No language/character encoding is specified

✅ URL Resolve

Great, a redirect is in place to redirect traffic from your non-preferred domain. All versions of your page point to the same URL.

URL	Resolved URL
http://abcnews4.com	https://abcnews4.com/
https://abcnews4.com	https://abcnews4.com/
http://www.abcnews4.com	https://abcnews4.com/
https://www.abcnews4.com	https://abcnews4.com/

✅ Robots.txt

https://abcnews4.com/robots.txt

✅ URL Parameters

Great, the domain URLs look clean.

Attribute	Value
ⓘ robots	index, follow
ⓘ viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=0.5
ⓘ author	Sinclair Broadcast Group

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

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

They are the main concepts covered by abcnews4.com.

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

Topics

Folly Beach, South Carolina Confidence: 95%

Folly Beach is a city located on historic Folly Island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,617 at the 2010 census, up from 2,116 at the 2000 census. Folly Beach is within the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville metropolitan area and the Charleston-North Charleston Urbanized Area.

Cottageville, South Carolina Confidence: 95%

Cottageville is a town in Colleton County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 762 at the 2010 census.

Dewees Island Confidence: 94%

Dewees Island is a barrier island about 11 miles north of Charleston. The inlet between it and the Isle of Palms is shown on early maps as Spence's Inlet, but is today called Dewees Inlet. The island is private, consisting only of residential properties and a wildlife preserve. It is accessible only by ferry or private boat.

Moncks Corner, South Carolina Confidence: 93%

Moncks Corner is a town in and the county seat of Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 7,885 at the 2010 census. As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, Moncks Corner is included within the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Rantowles, Hollywood, South Carolina Confidence: 93%

Rantowles, South Carolina is a hamlet or location in what is now Hollywood, South Carolina,and Ravenel, South Carolina near the Stono River.

WEBSITE SPEED

✅ abcnews4.com website speed is fast. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

1.8s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.8 seconds.

Speed Percentile

49%

abcnews4.com is faster than approximately 49 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 #184.952 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

United States of America (69.6%)
Others (30.4%)

Traffic country ranks

Country	Rank
United States of America	#54.982

LAYOUT

ⓘ Doctype HTML5

ⓘ Responsive website, mobile-friendly.

Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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How abcnews4.com looks like on a tablet such as an iPad.

Main colors used

ⓘ These are the main HTML color codes used by this website.

30% #000000
28% #ffffff
24% #f0f0f0
3% #606050
2% #d0b090
1% #f0e0d0
1% #fffff0
1% #d0c0b0
1% #902030
1% #e0d0c0
1% #103080
1% #d0e0f0

Text/code ratio

ⓘ abcnews4.com's text/code ratio is 1.62%. 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 1.62%

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

✅ Headings

Great, we found headings on this page.

<H1> 0
<H2> 14
<H3> 0
<H4> 0
<H5> 0
<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>

2^nd level heading
Local news
Stay connected
Trending
Nation & world
Sports
Entertainment
Offbeat
Sponsored content
Popular galleries
Business news
Featured videos
Education news
Crime news
4 the lowcountry

❌ Alt attributes

We found 12 images on this website.
12 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 11 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

Image	Image URL	Occurrences
	/resources/assets/wciv/images/logos/wciv_logo_w.svg	2
	/resources/defaults/news_3.0/icons/ui/sbg-search.svg	1
	/resources/defaults/news_3.0/icons/ui/sbg-search-dark.svg	1
	/resources/defaults/news_3.0/network_logos/abc_logo.svg	1
	/resources/defaults/news_3.0/icons/ui/sbg-close.svg	1
	/resources/defaults/news_3.0/icons/social/pinterest.svg	1
	/resources/defaults/news_3.0/icons/social/instagram.svg	1
	/resources/defaults/news_3.0/icons/social/facebook.svg	1
	/resources/defaults/news_3.0/icons/social/twitter.svg	1
	https://contextual.media.net/px.gif?&ch=1&vn=1	1
	https://s.mnet-ad.net/px.gif?&ch=2&vn=1	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 12 images on abcnews4.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

LINKS

ⓘ There is a total of 193 links on the homepage of this website.

ⓘ Internal links : 188

For a better readability, only the first 50 internal links are shown below.

Anchor	Type	URL
	image	/
News	text	/
Weather	text	/weather
Sports	text	/sports
Lowcountry Live	text	/lowcountry-live
Chime In	text	/chimein
Watch LIVE 1	text	/watch
LIVE 1	text	/watch
Now 50 Fri 69 Sat 65	text	/weather
No anchor	empty	/news/local/person-pinned-between-car-and-west-ashley-church-driver-also-injured
Pedestrian dies after getting pinned between car and West Ashley church	text	/news/local/person-pinned-between-car-and-west-ashley-church-driver-also-injured
No anchor	empty	/news/local/goose-creek-police-department-searching-for-missing-man-who-may-be-endangered
Goose Creek Police Department searching for missing man who may be endangered	text	/news/local/goose-creek-police-department-searching-for-missing-man-who-may-be-endangered
No anchor	empty	/news/local/north-charleston-fd-puts-out-mobile-home-fire
North Charleston FD puts out mobile home fire	text	/news/local/north-charleston-fd-puts-out-mobile-home-fire
No anchor	empty	/news/local/car-in-water-in-georgetown-county-rescue-underway
One person dead after truck goes into water in Murrells Inlet	text	/news/local/car-in-water-in-georgetown-county-rescue-underway
No anchor	empty	/news/local/water-main-break-in-goose-creek-causing-partial-road-collapse
Water main break in Goose Creek causing partial road collapse	text	/news/local/water-main-break-in-goose-creek-causing-partial-road-collapse
No anchor	empty	/news/local/utility-finishes-removing-toxic-coal-ash-from-sc-power-plant
Utility finishes removing toxic coal ash from SC power plant	text	/news/local/utility-finishes-removing-toxic-coal-ash-from-sc-power-plant
No anchor	empty	/news/local/charleston-police-looking-for-missing-mt-pleasant-woman
Charleston Police looking for missing Mt. Pleasant woman	text	/news/local/charleston-police-looking-for-missing-mt-pleasant-woman
No anchor	empty	/news/local/north-charleston-fd-extinguishes-early-morning-apartment-fire
North Charleston FD extinguishes early morning apartment fire	text	/news/local/north-charleston-fd-extinguishes-early-morning-apartment-fire
No anchor	empty	/news/local/vigil-held-for-mother-son-killed-in-shooting
Vigil held for mother, son killed in shooting	text	/news/local/vigil-held-for-mother-son-killed-in-shooting
No anchor	empty	/news/local/johns-island-residents-dealing-with-flooding-after-mondays-heavy-rain
Johns Island residents dealing with flooding after Monday's heavy rain	text	/news/local/johns-island-residents-dealing-with-flooding-after-mondays-heavy-rain
See More	text	/news/local
No anchor	empty	/news/local/lowcountry-restaurantsm-stores-open-christmas-day
Lowcountry restaurants, stores open Christmas Day	text	/news/local/lowcountry-restaurantsm-stores-open-christmas-day
No anchor	empty	/news/local/city-of-beaufort-repairing-historic-arsenal-building-so-it-lasts-for-generations-to-come
City of Beaufort repairing historic Arsenal building so it lasts for generations to come	text	/news/local/city-of-beaufort-repairing-historic-arsenal-building-so-it-lasts-for-generations-to-come
No anchor	empty	/news/local/feeling-unfixable-protecting-our-protectors-part-3
Feeling Unfixable: Protecting our Protectors - Part 3	text	/news/local/feeling-unfixable-protecting-our-protectors-part-3
No anchor	empty	/news/healthandfitness/dhec-confirms-mumps-case-associated-with-kiawah-island-resort
DHEC confirms mumps case associated with Kiawah Island Resort	text	/news/healthandfitness/dhec-confirms-mumps-case-associated-with-kiawah-island-resort
No anchor	empty	/sports/lingering-knee-issue-still-bothering-ohio-state-qb-fields-ahead-of-clemson-game
Lingering knee issue still bothering Ohio State QB Fields ahead of Clemson game	text	/sports/lingering-knee-issue-still-bothering-ohio-state-qb-fields-ahead-of-clemson-game
No anchor	empty	/news/local/charleston-fd-responding-to-reported-structure-fire-at-west-ashley-apartments
Charleston FD respond to structure fire at West Ashley apartments	text	/news/local/charleston-fd-responding-to-reported-structure-fire-at-west-ashley-apartments
No anchor	empty	/lowcountry-live/health/feeling-unfixable-protecting-our-protectors-part-2
Feeling Unfixable: Protecting our Protectors - Part 2	text	/lowcountry-live/health/feeling-unfixable-protecting-our-protectors-part-2
Content Concerns	text	/content-concerns
No anchor	empty	/news/offbeat/surfing-santas-ride-waves-along-floridas-space-coast
Surfing Santas ride waves along Florida's Space Coast	text	/news/offbeat/surfing-santas-ride-waves-along-floridas-space-coast
No anchor	empty	/news/nation-world/suspect-arrested-in-fatal-stabbing-of-2-men-including-brother-of-49ers-qb
Suspect arrested in fatal stabbing of 2 men, including brother of 49ers QB	text	/news/nation-world/suspect-arrested-in-fatal-stabbing-of-2-men-including-brother-of-49ers-qb
No anchor	empty	/news/offbeat/my-son-was-on-the-menu-video-shows-zoo-tiger-lunge-at-kid

ⓘ External links : 5

Anchor	Type	URL
	image	http://pinterest.com/abcnews4
	image	https://www.instagram.com/abcnews4
	image	https://www.facebook.com/abcnews4
	image	https://twitter.com/abcnews4
FCC Info	text	https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/tv-profile/wciv

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

ⓘ Domain Registrar	GODADDY.COM, LLC
ⓘ Registration Date	05/31/2002 21 years, 10 months, 29 days ago
ⓘ Last Modified	04/19/2019 5 years, 6 days ago
ⓘ Expiration Date	05/31/2020 Expired

Nameservers

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