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Whois & Analysis for chron.com

Nov 28, 2019 3:52 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Organization
The Hearst Corporation
• City
New York
• Zip Code
10019
• State
NY
• Country Code
US
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
The Hearst Corporation See more
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
April 25, 1990 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
34 years, 1 day
• Alexa Rank
#594, chron.com is in the world's top 1.000 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 February 5, 2020.
Title Tag
Houston Local News, Weather, Headlines, Sports, Business, and Entertainment - The Houston Chronicle at Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Length: 132 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Breaking news headlines and Houston weather on Chron.com. Houston news, events, plus Astros and Rockets from the online home of the Houston Chronicle.
Length: 150 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

Houston Local News, Weather, Headlines, Sports, Business, and Entertai...

https://chron.com

Breaking news headlines and Houston weather on Chron.com. Houston news, events, plus Astros and Rockets from the online home of the Houston Chronicle.

Mobile Version

https://chron.com

Houston Local News, Weather, Headlines, Sports, Business, and Entertai...

Breaking news headlines and Houston weather on Chron.com. Houston news, events, plus Astros and Rockets from the online home of th...

Encoding
Great, language/character encoding is specified: utf-8
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 Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
viewport width=1024, initial-scale=0.78125, minimum-scale=0.78125, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=yes

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

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

They are the main concepts covered by chron.com.

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

Topics
Houston Chronicle Confidence: 92% Arrow up

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States., it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States.

With its 1995 buy-out of long-time rival the Houston Post, the Chronicle became Houston's primary newspaper.

Breaking news Confidence: 74% 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.

Houston Astros Confidence: 73% Arrow up

The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston, Texas.

The Astros are members of the American League (AL) West division in Major League Baseball (MLB), having moved to the division in 2013 after spending their first 51 seasons in the National League (NL).

The Astros have played their home games at Minute Maid Park since 2000.

Weather forecasting Confidence: 64% Arrow
Sport Confidence: 64% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

1.9s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.9 seconds.

Speed Percentile

44%

chron.com is faster than approximately 44 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

Page on which speed is tested live:

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TRAFFIC

This website is ranked #594 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • chron.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 20 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (14.9%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (39.3%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (45.8%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #405
Flag for EgyptEgypt #1.036
Flag for SingaporeSingapore #459
Flag for BangladeshBangladesh #553
Flag for TurkeyTurkey #2.257

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 28% #d0d0d0
  • 26% #000000
  • 18% #ffffff
  • 5% #e0e0e0
  • 4% #f0f0f0
  • 2% #e05050
  • 2% #f03030
  • 2% #e08070
  • 1% #fffff0
  • 1% #f0c0c0
  • 1% #e0b0b0
  • 1% #e06060

Text/code ratio

chron.com's text/code ratio is 2.26%. 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 2.26%

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.

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>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H2> tags are shown below.

2nd level heading
Thanksgiving day 2019
Trending now
The lead
Latest
Sponsored content (3)
<H3>

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3rd level heading
Minimum salary you need to be happy in houston
ıntroducing the all-new mazda3: the car that ıs as beautiful as ıt ıs powerful
Legal aid for low-income texans ‘really dire’ (4)
Q&a: united ceo oscar munoz talks boeing 737 max and biometrics (2)
Power regulators weighing whether financial ties must be... (2)
<H4>

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4th level heading
3 hurt at texas chemical plant hit by 2 massive explosions
The latest: officials say no clear end yet to plant fire
Houstonians line up for pies from flying saucer pie company
Revamped toys r us store set to open sunday in houston galleria
Two 16-year-olds shot while sitting in parked car in baytown
<H5>

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5th level heading
Man shot at south houston burger joint during fight
15-year-old shot, killed in east houston
Don’t book your travel without checking out this site... by: rakuten
Port neches blaze expected to continue for a few more hours
Wildly cheap houston flights for under $50 (3)
<H6>
6th level heading
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Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 128 images on this website.
25 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 14 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

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

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

This is an overview of your homepage shares on social networks.

Congratulations, your website is highly shared on social media! It's an excellent signal for your overall SEO strategy.

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  • Total Engagement 12.621
  • Likes 2.312
  • Shares 9.505
  • Comments 804

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registration Date 04/25/1990 34 years, 1 day ago
Last Modified 04/22/2019 5 years, 4 days ago
Expiration Date 04/26/2020 Expired
Nameservers Arrow up
Host IP Address Country
ns4.hearstnp.com 34.192.165.114 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns5.hearstnp.com 52.36.105.169 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns6.hearstnp.com 34.217.162.58 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • IP Address
  • 98.129.228.59
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Texas , San Antonio
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 29.5074 : -98.3934
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