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Whois & Analysis for joelonsoftware.com

Jan 15, 2020 12:19 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Contact Name
Whois Agent
• Organization
Domain Protection Services, Inc.
• Address
PO Box 1769
• City
Denver
• Zip Code
80201
• State
CO
• Country Code
US
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Domain Protection Services, Inc. See more
• Category
Business  >  Business Software
• Online since
• Age
23 years, 8 months, 25 days
• Alexa Rank
#158.377, joelonsoftware.com is in the world's top 1 million 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 March 22, 2020.
Title Tag
Joel on Software
Length: 16 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies.
Length: 103 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Joel on Software

https://joelonsoftware.com

A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies.

Mobile Version

https://joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software

A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies.

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URL Resolve

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URL Parameters
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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 joelonsoftware.com.

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

Topics
Joel Spolsky Confidence: 90% Arrow up

Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer.

He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software Trello.

He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994.

He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog.

In 2008, he launched the Stack Overflow programmer Q&A site in collaboration with Jeff Atwood.

Using the Stack Exchange software product which powers Stack Overflow, the Stack Exchange Network now hosts over 100 Q&A sites.

New York City Confidence: 82% Arrow up

The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of about, New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States.

Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.

A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term .

Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.

Blog Confidence: 78% Arrow up

A blog (a truncation of the expression weblog) is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.

Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic.

In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and sometimes professionally edited.

MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic.

The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media.

Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Programmer Confidence: 74% Arrow up

A programmer, computer programmer, developer, dev, coder, or software engineer is a person who writes computer software.

The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software.

One who practices or professes a formal approach to programming may also be known as a programmer analyst.

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

1.1s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.1 seconds.

Speed Percentile

76%

joelonsoftware.com is faster than approximately 76 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 #158.377 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • joelonsoftware.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 2 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (23.1%)
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (12.4%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (64.5%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #126.391
Flag for IndiaIndia #135.114

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

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  • 60% #ffffff
  • 38% #f0f0f0
  • 1% #000000
  • 0% #fff0f0
  • 0% #fffff0
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Text/code ratio

joelonsoftware.com's text/code ratio is 15.73%. 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 15.73%

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> 1
  • <H2> 9
  • <H3> 11
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Joel on software
<H2>
2nd level heading
Your host
Careers
Twitter! twitter!
What’s new?
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
<H3>
3rd level heading
Top 10
Stack overflow
New developer
Rock star developer
Tech lead
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 7 images on this website.
5 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 5 images on joelonsoftware.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 1.052
  • Likes 226
  • Shares 611
  • Comments 215

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar NAME.COM, INC.
Registration Date 07/29/2000 23 years, 8 months, 25 days ago
Last Modified 09/30/2019 4 years, 6 months, 23 days ago
Expiration Date 06/01/2027 3 years, 1 month, 11 days from now
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Host IP Address Country
ns1mtw.name.com 162.88.61.47 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns2nsw.name.com 162.88.60.47 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns3flt.name.com 162.88.61.49 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Automattic, Inc
  • IP Address
  • 199.16.173.181
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Texas , Dallas
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 32.7767 : -96.797
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