irishtimes.com Domain Owner Whois and Analysis

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

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SEO SCORE

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner

Private

• Category

News / Weather / Information

• Online since

July 3, 1997 Explore Wayback Machine

• Age

27 years, 4 months, 5 days

• Alexa Rank

#4.492, irishtimes.com is in the world's top 5.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

❌ SSL Certificate

This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa has expired on January 5, 2020.

✅ Title Tag

Breaking News | Irish & International Headlines | The Irish Times
Length: 69 (recommended: 10 to 70)

✅ Meta Description

The Irish Times online. Latest news including sport, analysis, business, weather and more from the definitive brand of quality news in Ireland.
Length: 143 (recommended: 50 to 160)

ⓘ Google preview

Desktop Version

Breaking News | Irish & International Headlines | The Irish Times

https://irishtimes.com

The Irish Times online. Latest news including sport, analysis, business, weather and more from the definitive brand of quality news in Ireland.

Mobile Version

https://irishtimes.com

Breaking News | Irish & International Headlines | The Irish Times

The Irish Times online. Latest news including sport, analysis, business, weather and more from the definitive brand of quality new...

✅ 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	Resolved URL
http://irishtimes.com	https://www.irishtimes.com/
https://irishtimes.com	https://www.irishtimes.com/
http://www.irishtimes.com	https://www.irishtimes.com/
https://www.irishtimes.com	https://www.irishtimes.com/

✅ Robots.txt

https://www.irishtimes.com/robots.txt

✅ URL Parameters

Great, the domain URLs look clean.

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ⓘ viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=2.0, user-scalable=yes, target-densitydpi=medium...
ⓘ robots	all

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 irishtimes.com.

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

Topics

The Irish Times Confidence: 86%

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Denis Staunton. The Irish Times is published every day except Sundays. It employs 420 people.

Ireland Confidence: 72%

Ireland (Ulster-Scots) is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.

Breaking news Confidence: 72%

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.

The Times Confidence: 69%

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England. It began in 1785 under the title, adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by News Corp. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967.

WEBSITE SPEED

❌ irishtimes.com website speed is slow. 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%

irishtimes.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

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TRAFFIC

ⓘ This website is ranked #4.492 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

India (4.6%)
United States of America (19.3%)
Ireland (36.5%)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (5.2%)
France (11.3%)
Canada (3.3%)
Others (19.8%)

Traffic country ranks

Country	Rank
India	#9.441
Pakistan	#12.159
United States of America	#4.489
Ireland	#29
Australia	#4.549
Nigeria	#5.496
Sweden	#2.142
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	#2.025
France	#763
Brazil	#26.324
Canada	#3.169

LAYOUT

ⓘ Doctype HTML5

ⓘ Responsive website, mobile-friendly.

Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

ⓘ These are the main HTML color codes used by this website.

43% #f0f0f0
41% #ffffff
5% #000000
1% #fff0f0
1% #fffff0
1% #807060
1% #f0ffff
1% #f0d0d0
1% #a09080
1% #806040
1% #907060
1% #706050

Text/code ratio

ⓘ irishtimes.com's text/code ratio is 3.93%. 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 3.93%

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

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<H1> 0
<H2> 7
<H3> 18
<H4> 1
<H5> 7
<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>

2^nd level heading
Latest news
Most read
Film reviews
Columnists
Video
Connect with the ırish times
Most discussed

<H3>

3^rd level heading
Byelections
Sport
Life & style
Culture
Tv reviewers the world over owe debt to clive james
David mcwilliams: a swift lesson in ırish economics
Pat leahy: fine gael should learn a lesson from bertie on humility
Cliff taylor: ıt is time for us to take the corporate tax medicine
Business
Subscriber only
Opinion
Highlights
Brexit
ırish times video
Abroad
Sponsored
Podcasts
Galleries

<H4>

4^th level heading
Sign ın

<H5>

5^th level heading
Subscribe (2)
About us (2)
Policy & terms
ırish times products & services
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❌ Alt attributes

We found 76 images on this website.
9 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Image	Image URL	Occurrences
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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 9 images on irishtimes.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

LINKS

ⓘ There is a total of 337 links on the homepage of this website.

ⓘ Internal links : 321

For a better readability, only the first 50 internal links are shown below.

Anchor	Type	URL
Newsletters	text	/newsletters
Crossword	text	/games/crosswords
Subscribe	text	/digital-subscriptions
The Irish Times	text	/
2°c Dublin	text	/weather/
News	text	/news
Sport	text	/sport
Business	text	/business
Opinion	text	/opinion
Life & Style	text	/life-and-style
Culture	text	/culture
More	text	/more
Video	text	/video
Podcasts	text	/podcasts
UK Election	text	/news/world/uk/uk-election
Ireland	text	/news/ireland
World	text	/news/world
Politics	text	/news/politics
Crime & Law	text	/news/crime-and-law
Health	text	/news/health
Education	text	/news/education
Subscriber Only	text	/your-subscription/subscriber-only-articles
No Child 2020	text	/nochild2020
Brexit	text	/news/world/brexit
Irish News	text	/news/ireland/irish-news
UK	text	/news/world/uk
Europe	text	/news/world/europe
US	text	/news/world/us
Africa	text	/news/world/africa
Middle East	text	/news/world/middle-east
Asia-Pacific	text	/news/world/asia-pacific
Oireachtas	text	/news/politics/oireachtas
Poll	text	/news/politics/poll
MacGill	text	/news/politics/macgill-summer-school
European Election	text	/news/politics/european-election
Local Elections	text	/news/politics/local-elections
Divorce Referendum	text	/news/politics/divorce-referendum
Elections	text	/news/elections
Social Affairs	text	/news/social-affairs
Religion & Beliefs	text	/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs
Student Hub	text	/student-hub
2nd Level Hub	text	/student-hub/2nd-level-student-hub
Parents	text	/news/education/parents
Courts	text	/news/crime-and-law/courts
Environment	text	/news/environment
Climate Change	text	/news/environment/climate-change
Heritage & Habitat	text	/news/environment/heritage-habitat
Science	text	/news/science
Space	text	/news/science/space
Consumer	text	/news/consumer

ⓘ External links : 16

Anchor	Type	URL
Notices	text	http://notices.irishtimes.com/
Executive Jobs	text	https://execjobs.irishtimes.com/
Home Delivery	text	http://www.newsdelivery.ie
Executive Jobs	text	http://execjobs.irishtimes.com/
	image	https://itunes.apple.com/ie/artist/the-irish-times-ltd/id365544597
	image	https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=the+ırish+times+ltd
Rewarding Times	text	https://www.rewardingtimes.ie
MyHome.ie	text	https://www.myhome.ie
Irish Racing	text	https://www.irishracing.com
Top 1000	text	https://www.top1000.ie
MyAntiques.ie	text	http://www.myantiques.ie
The Gloss	text	https://www.thegloss.ie
Irish Times Training	text	https://www.irishtimestraining.com/
Jobs	text	https://execjobs.irishtimes.com/
Family Notices	text	http://notices.irishtimes.com/
Notices	text	http://notices.irishtimes.com

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

ⓘ Domain Registrar	NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC
ⓘ Registration Date	07/03/1997 27 years, 4 months, 5 days ago
ⓘ Last Modified	05/21/2018 6 years, 5 months, 18 days ago
ⓘ Expiration Date	07/02/2027 2 years, 7 months, 28 days from now

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