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Whois & Analysis for dcist.com

Dec 20, 2019 1:51 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
March 18, 2004 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
20 years, 1 month, 9 days
• Alexa Rank
#99.484, dcist.com is in the world's top 100.000 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 July 6, 2020.
Title Tag
DCist: News, Food, Arts, Events in DC
Length: 37 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
DCist covers news, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C. The site is owned by WAMU 88.5.
Length: 124 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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DCist: News, Food, Arts, Events in DC

https://dcist.com

DCist covers news, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C. The site is owned by WAMU 88.5.

Mobile Version

https://dcist.com

DCist: News, Food, Arts, Events in DC

DCist covers news, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C. The site is owned by WAMU 88.5.

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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 dcist.com.

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

Topics
Gothamist Confidence: 83% Arrow up

Gothamist LLC is the operator, or in some cases franchisor, of eight city-centric websites worldwide that focus on news, events, food, culture, and other local coverage.

Washington, D.C. Confidence: 80% Arrow up

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States.

WAMU Confidence: 79% Arrow up

WAMU is a public radio station that services the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

The station broadcasts 24 hours a day on 88.5 FM, online at wamu.org, and on HD Radio at 88.5-HD1 and HD2.

It is owned by American University, and its studios are located near the campus in northwest Washington.

Culture Confidence: 68% Arrow up

Culture can be defined in numerous ways.

In the words of anthropologist E.B. Tylor, it is "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Alternatively, in a contemporary variant, "Culture is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses and material expressions, which, over time, express the continuities and discontinuities of social meaning of a life held in common.".

Politics Confidence: 68% Arrow up

Politics (from Greek Politiká: Politika, definition "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions applying to all members of each group.

More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance — organized control over a human community, particularly a state.

Furthermore, politics is the study or practice of the distribution of power and resources within a given community (this is usually a hierarchically organized population) as well as the interrelationship(s) between communities.

WEBSITE SPEED

dcist.com website speed is very slow. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

2.6s

This domain loads at the median speed of 2.6 seconds.

Speed Percentile

28%

dcist.com is faster than approximately 28 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 #99.484 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • dcist.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 1 country
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (95.1%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (4.9%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #21.320

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 40% #000000
  • 27% #b0b0b0
  • 26% #102020
  • 2% #100000
  • 1% #902030
  • 1% #b07080
  • 1% #b06070
  • 1% #602020
  • 0% #80a0b0
  • 0% #b05060
  • 0% #a04050
  • 0% #908070

Main HTML tags

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Great, we found headings on this page.

  • <H1> 0
  • <H2> 27
  • <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>

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2nd level heading
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The takoma solar panel application that started an uproar has been approved (2)
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These are the most popular books of 2019, at least at the d.c. public library (2)
Ring ın 2020 at one of these 28 new year’s eve parties
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We found 30 images on this website.
29 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on dcist.com /wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/12/Colochita-featured-image-1500x1125.jpg 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on dcist.com /wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/12/solarpanels_web-600x342.png 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on dcist.com /wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/bijanprotest-600x450.jpg 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on dcist.com /wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/12/library-600x450.jpg 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on dcist.com /wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/12/billy-huynh-saS98jKhVjA-unsplash-600x450.jpg 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 29 images on dcist.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 1.314
  • Likes 119
  • Shares 1.167
  • Comments 28

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar GODADDY.COM, LLC
Registration Date 03/18/2004 20 years, 1 month, 9 days ago
Last Modified 06/22/2018 5 years, 10 months, 8 days ago
Expiration Date 03/18/2021 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns-684.awsdns-21.net 205.251.194.172 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-1766.awsdns-28.co.uk 205.251.198.230 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-5.awsdns-00.com 205.251.192.5 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Amazon.com, Inc.
  • IP Address
  • 52.205.171.185
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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