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Whois & Analysis for abovethelaw.com

Nov 23, 2019 1:03 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
Law, Government, & Politics  >  Legal Issues
• Online since
August 18, 1997 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
26 years, 8 months, 4 days
• Alexa Rank
#28.401, abovethelaw.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 CloudFlare, Inc. has expired on October 9, 2020.
Title Tag
Above the Law
Length: 13 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts
Length: 113 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Above the Law

https://abovethelaw.com

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

Mobile Version

https://abovethelaw.com

Above the Law

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

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URL Resolve

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URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
viewport width=device-width,minimum-scale=1,initial-scale=1
author David Lat, Elie Mystal, Staci Zaretsky, Kashmir Hill, Marin, Mark Herrmann, Jay Shepherd

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 abovethelaw.com.

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

Topics
Above the Law (website) Confidence: 79% Arrow up

Above the Law (often abbreviated ATL) is a news website about law, law schools, and the legal profession.

Established in 2006, the site is owned and published by Breaking Media.

Law school Confidence: 78% Arrow up

A law school (also known as a law centre or college of law) is an institution specializing in legal education, usually involved as part of a process for becoming a lawyer within a given jurisdiction.

Lawsuit Confidence: 78% Arrow up

A lawsuit (or suit in law) is "a vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons in the courts of law." The term refers to any proceeding by a party or parties against another in a court of law.

Legal opinion Confidence: 75% Arrow up

In law, a legal opinion is in certain jurisdictions a written explanation by a judge or group of judges that accompanies an order or ruling in a case, laying out the rationale and legal principles for the ruling.

Court Confidence: 75% Arrow up

A court is a tribunal, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law.

In both common law and civil law legal systems, courts are the central means for dispute resolution, and it is generally understood that all persons have an ability to bring their claims before a court.

Similarly, the rights of those accused of a crime include the right to present a defense before a court.

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

1.5s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.5 seconds.

Speed Percentile

59%

abovethelaw.com is faster than approximately 59 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 #28.401 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • abovethelaw.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 4 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (5.6%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (75.4%)
  • Flag for CanadaCanada (3.4%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (15.6%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #43.434
Flag for PakistanPakistan #37.711
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #5.654
Flag for CanadaCanada #17.841

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

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  • 49% #ffffff
  • 42% #f0f0f0
  • 2% #a0b0c0
  • 1% #f0ffff
  • 1% #90a0b0
  • 1% #fffff0
  • 1% #8090a0
  • 0% #a0a070
  • 0% #103080
  • 0% #406030
  • 0% #f0f0ff
  • 0% #003080

Text/code ratio

abovethelaw.com's text/code ratio is 4.45%. 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 4.45%

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> 7
  • <H2> 5
  • <H3> 5
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Above the law
Even the bottom of the class at these law schools ıs ımpressive
Federal clerk attacks his law school for celebrating pro bono work
No one seems to want to go to law school here anymore
Biglaw firm goes all punitive with new, stricter hours requirements to get bonus money
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2nd level heading
Law school students want picture of robert e. lee removed from diploma
ın non criminal president news — see also
Morning docket: 11.22.19
Bonus news aplenty — see also
Love atl? let's make it official. sign up for our newsletter.
<H3>
3rd level heading
Above the law ın your inbox
Recent jobs
Sections
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We found 48 images on this website.
34 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 31 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on abovethelaw.com //pubads.g.doubleclick.net/activity;dc_iu=/8788/DFPAudiencePixel/BreakingMedia/AboveTheLaw;dc_seg=66... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on abovethelaw.com //pubads.g.doubleclick.net/activity;dc_iu=/8788/DFPAudiencePixel/BreakingMedia/AboveTheLaw;dc_seg=66... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on abovethelaw.com https://abovethelaw.com/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-21-at-4.39.42-PM.png 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on abovethelaw.com https://abovethelaw.com/uploads/2017/12/bonus-money-case-100-dollar-bills-benjamins-300x200-300x200.... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on abovethelaw.com https://abovethelaw.com/uploads/2017/09/ATL_SEPT_Diversity_CLE_610x400-1-300x197.jpg 1

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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 34 images on abovethelaw.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

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  • Total Engagement 1.640
  • Likes 451
  • Shares 885
  • Comments 304

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar GODADDY.COM, LLC
Registration Date 08/18/1997 26 years, 8 months, 4 days ago
Last Modified 02/11/2016 8 years, 2 months, 7 days ago
Expiration Date 08/17/2021 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
duke.ns.cloudflare.com 173.245.59.110 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ivy.ns.cloudflare.com 173.245.58.120 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Cloudflare, Inc.
  • IP Address
  • 104.26.5.58
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • New Jersey , Newark
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 40.7357 : -74.1724
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