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Whois & Analysis for bostonherald.com

Nov 29, 2019 10:26 pm 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
28 years, 11 months, 14 days
• Alexa Rank
#23.940, bostonherald.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 8, 2020.
Title Tag
Boston Herald - Boston news, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment, weather and obituaries
Length: 93 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
The Boston Herald is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, politics, entertainment, opinion and weather in Boston, Massachusetts.
Length: 148 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

Boston Herald - Boston news, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment,...

https://bostonherald.com

The Boston Herald is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, politics, entertainment, opinion and weather in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mobile Version

https://bostonherald.com

Boston Herald - Boston news, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment,...

The Boston Herald is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, politics, entertainment, opinion and weather in Bost...

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

They are the main concepts covered by bostonherald.com.

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

Topics
Boston Herald Confidence: 87% Arrow up

The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding area.

It was founded in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States.

It has been awarded eight Pulitzer Prizes in its history, including four for editorial writing and three for photography before it was converted to tabloid format in 1981.

The Herald was named one of the "10 Newspapers That 'Do It Right' in 2012 by Editor & Publisher.

Boston Confidence: 81% Arrow up

Boston (pronounced) is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999.

The city proper covers with an estimated population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England and the 23rd most populous city in the United States.

The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.7 million people in 2014 and ranking as the tenth-largest such area in the country.

Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area (CSA), this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, making it the sixth-largest as such in the United States.

Breaking news Confidence: 79% 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.

Opinion journalism Confidence: 75% Arrow up

Opinion journalism is journalism that makes no claim of objectivity.

Although distinguished from advocacy journalism in several ways, both forms feature a subjective viewpoint, usually with some social or political purpose.

Common examples include newspaper columns, editorials, editorial cartoons, and punditry.

Source (journalism) Confidence: 74% Arrow up

In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or other record or document that gives timely information.

Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as "news sources".

Examples of sources include official records, publications or broadcasts, officials in government or business, organizations or corporations, witnesses of crime, accidents or other events, and people involved with or affected by a news event or issue.

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

1.7s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.7 seconds.

Speed Percentile

52%

bostonherald.com is faster than approximately 52 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 #23.940 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • bostonherald.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 3 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (82.8%)
  • Flag for CanadaCanada (4.7%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (12.5%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #5.074
Flag for CanadaCanada #12.009
Flag for IndiaIndia #90.478

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

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Main colors used

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  • 54% #f0f0f0
  • 19% #ffffff
  • 3% #fffff0
  • 3% #f0ffff
  • 1% #706050
  • 1% #f0fff0
  • 1% #fff0f0
  • 1% #f0e0d0
  • 1% #d0f0e0
  • 1% #f0f070
  • 1% #b0d0c0
  • 1% #f0f0ff

Text/code ratio

bostonherald.com's text/code ratio is 2.63%. 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 2.63%

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 Arrow up

Great, we found headings on this page.

  • <H1> 0
  • <H2> 15
  • <H3> 3
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 16
  • <H6> 26

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
Breaking news
The latest: police: 2 killed in london stabbing attack
Latest headlines
Sports
James guy, st. john’s prep exact revenge on xaverian
<H3>
3rd level heading
Us stocks close out half-day session with broad losses
How to keep the holiday mood going
Melania trump meets boos with grace
<H5>
5th level heading
Sunday snow forecast could impact thanksgiving travelers
Medicare patients in deadly ‘donut hole’ struggle to pay for medication
Howie carr: a lot stinks with this rmv report dump
Wellesley-needham football game ends early in on-field brawl
Stoneham rumbles past reading (2)
<H6>

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6th level heading
Dutch police: 3 people wounded in hague stabbing
Two-alarm fire breaks out at harvard’s emerson hall, no injuries
Closed churches become condos, dollar tree, hockey rinks
Trump thanks troops in afghanistan, says taliban want a deal
Pine street ınn shares thanksgiving feast: ‘ıf you’re here, you don’t have any place to go’
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 34 images on this website.
7 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 7 images on bostonherald.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

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  • Facebook iconFacebook
  • Total Engagement 95
  • Likes 35
  • Shares 26
  • Comments 34

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC
Registration Date 05/18/1995 28 years, 11 months, 14 days ago
Last Modified 02/27/2018 6 years, 1 month, 28 days ago
Expiration Date 05/19/2023 Expired

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Automattic, Inc
  • IP Address
  • 192.0.66.2
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • California , San Francisco
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 37.7441 : -122.422
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