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Whois & Analysis for desertsun.com

Jan 17, 2020 6:37 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 14, 2001 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
23 years, 1 month, 13 days
• Alexa Rank
#71.234, desertsun.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 DigiCert Inc has expired on May 17, 2020.
Title Tag
The Desert Sun | Palm Springs and Coachella Valley news
Length: 55 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
The latest Palm Springs area news from The Desert Sun newspaper in the California desert. Coachella Valley photos, obituaries and events calendar.
Length: 146 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

The Desert Sun | Palm Springs and Coachella Valley news

https://desertsun.com

The latest Palm Springs area news from The Desert Sun newspaper in the California desert. Coachella Valley photos, obituaries and events calendar.

Mobile Version

https://desertsun.com

The Desert Sun | Palm Springs and Coachella Valley news

The latest Palm Springs area news from The Desert Sun newspaper in the California desert. Coachella Valley photos, obituaries and...

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No language/character encoding is specified
URL Resolve

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URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
content-type text/html; charset=UTF-8
robots NOODP, NOYDIR
viewport width=1070

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 desertsun.com.

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

Topics
Coachella Valley Confidence: 81% Arrow up

The Coachella Valley is a desert valley in Southern California which extends for approximately in Riverside County southeast from the San Bernardino Mountains to the northern shore of the Salton Sea.

It is the northernmost extent of the vast trough which includes the Salton Sea, the Imperial Valley and the Gulf of California.

It is approximately wide along most of its length, bounded on the west by the San Jacinto Mountains and the Santa Rosa Mountains and on the north and east by the Little San Bernardino Mountains.

The San Andreas Fault crosses the valley from the Chocolate Mountains in the southeast corner and along the centerline of the Little San Bernardinos.

The fault is easily visible along its northern length as a strip of greenery against an otherwise bare mountain.

Palm Springs, California Confidence: 76% Arrow up

Palm Springs is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Coachella Valley.

It is located approximately east of San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles, northeast of San Diego, and west of Phoenix, Arizona.

The population was 44,552 as of the 2010 census.

Palm Springs covers approximately, making it the largest city in the county by land area.

The Desert Sun Confidence: 73% Arrow up

The Desert Sun is a local daily newspaper serving Palm Springs and the surrounding Coachella Valley in Southern California.

Los Angeles Daily News Confidence: 70% Arrow up

The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California.

It is the flagship of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, a branch of Colorado-based Digital First Media.

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

1.4s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.4 seconds.

Speed Percentile

62%

desertsun.com is faster than approximately 62 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 #71.234 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • desertsun.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 1 country
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (85.7%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (14.3%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #17.745

LAYOUT

Doctype HTML5 Arrow Responsive website, mobile-friendly. Arrow

Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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Main colors used

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  • 31% #c0e0f0
  • 22% #ffffff
  • 16% #f0f0f0
  • 6% #505040
  • 4% #c0d0e0
  • 3% #1080d0
  • 2% #706040
  • 2% #1090e0
  • 2% #3080b0
  • 1% #90b0c0
  • 1% #a0c0d0
  • 1% #f0ffff

Text/code ratio

desertsun.com's text/code ratio is 1.06%. 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 1.06%

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> 63
  • <H2> 0
  • <H3> 2
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 19
<H1>

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Top level heading
Phil mickelson fires uneven 70 in 2020 debut
Jesse hughes heals after paris attacks
ındio supports plan for homes, horses in portion of city
Nonprofit: 2,000 affordable housing units coming to valley (2)
Jtnp hiker’s widow: ‘ıt’s been a tough journey’ (2)
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3rd level heading
Services
Our partners
<H6>
6th level heading
Quick links
Marketplace
Palm springs
Ad content
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Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 74 images on this website.
67 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 67 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

For a better readability, only the first 50 images missing a description are shown below.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on desertsun.com https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/01/16/PPAS/cf992bfb-2a39-4629-a702-1be01825b591-amex_golf_20... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on desertsun.com https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/01/06/PPAS/ac51ac7b-e3f7-4c2d-a99b-9dc089261820-DSC_6933.jpg... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on desertsun.com https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/12eaa7501db1f26193ca1db4840af9d2a2d92770/c=0-38-400-263/local/-/med... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on desertsun.com https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/01/16/USAT/3dca3940-4d8e-499f-8563-8a94ee6821e5-_38A2297.jpg... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on desertsun.com https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/01/16/PPAS/fc29f637-e173-40eb-a246-eedddab03505-PalmDesertEl... 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 67 images on desertsun.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 0
  • Likes 0
  • Shares 0
  • Comments 0

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar MARKMONITOR, INC.
Registration Date 03/14/2001 23 years, 1 month, 13 days ago
Last Modified 02/10/2019 5 years, 2 months, 15 days ago
Expiration Date 03/14/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns02.gannett-dns.com 45.54.66.65 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns04.gannett-dns.com 45.54.66.193 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns01.gannett-dns.com 45.54.66.1 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Gannett Media Technologies International
  • IP Address
  • 209.97.50.225
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Norfolk
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 36.8648 : -76.2312
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