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Whois & Analysis for news24.com

Nov 18, 2019 1:04 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Contact Name
Media24 (Pty) Ltd
• Organization
Media24 (Pty) Ltd
• City
Cape Town
• Zip Code
8000
• State
Western Cape
• Country Code
ZA
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Media24 (Pty) Ltd See more
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
October 30, 1997 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
27 years, 4 days
• Alexa Rank
#3.227, news24.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 CloudFlare, Inc. has expired on January 31, 2020.
Title Tag
News24 | South Africa's leading source of breaking news, opinion and insight
Length: 76 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
News24, South Africa's premier news source, provides breaking news on national, world, Africa, sport, entertainment, technology & more.
Length: 139 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

News24 | South Africa's leading source of breaking news, opinion and...

https://news24.com

News24, South Africa's premier news source, provides breaking news on national, world, Africa, sport, entertainment, technology & more.

Mobile Version

https://news24.com

News24 | South Africa's leading source of breaking news, opinion and...

News24, South Africa's premier news source, provides breaking news on national, world, Africa, sport, entertainment, technology &a...

Encoding
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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=device-width,initial-scale=1

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 news24.com.

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

Topics
South Africa Confidence: 81% Arrow up

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

It is bounded on the south by of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, on the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, and on the east and northeast by Mozambique and Swaziland, and surrounding the kingdom of Lesotho.

South Africa is the 25th-largest country in the world by land area, and with close to 56 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation.

It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere.

About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different Bantu languages, nine of which have official status.

The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European (white), Asian (Indian), and multiracial (coloured) ancestry.

News24 Confidence: 76% Arrow up

News24.com is an English-language South African online news publication created in October 1998 by the multinational media company, Naspers.

Also known as South Africa’s largest digital publisher, News24 covers local and international news, politics, business, entertainment, technology, sport, and much more.

Breaking news Confidence: 68% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

news24.com website speed is normal. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

1.7s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.7 seconds.

Speed Percentile

53%

news24.com is faster than approximately 53 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 #3.227 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • news24.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 9 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (6.2%)
  • Flag for South AfricaSouth Africa (78.3%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (15.5%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #25.834
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #11.692
Flag for BotswanaBotswana #277
Flag for AustraliaAustralia #5.014
Flag for NigeriaNigeria #2.993

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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How news24.com looks like on a mobile device such as an iPhone.

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How news24.com looks like on a tablet such as an iPad.

Main colors used

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  • 38% #f0f0f0
  • 34% #e0e0e0
  • 11% #ffffff
  • 3% #d0e0f0
  • 2% #e0e0f0
  • 1% #f0f0ff
  • 1% #f0e0d0
  • 1% #808040
  • 1% #304080
  • 1% #103080
  • 1% #f0ffff
  • 1% #b0d070

Text/code ratio

news24.com's text/code ratio is 10.83%. 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 10.83%

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> 6
  • <H3> 32
  • <H4> 48
  • <H5> 41
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
News24 news. breaking news. first
<H2>
2nd level heading
Monday 13-18°c
Voting booth
Special focus
İnside news24
Hello (2)
<H3>

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3rd level heading
How the boks could come undone
South africa
Africa
Video
World
<H4>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H4> tags are shown below.

4th level heading
Convicted #feesmustfall activist kanya cekeshe admitted to hospital
Safety is our top priority, strike-laden saa insists
The da has a new pilot, put on your helmet it's time for take off - new interim federal chair
Gauteng police arrest over 900 suspects during weekend operations for various crimes
Harsh action to be taken against kzn education officials after grade 1 pupils go without teacher since may
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5th level heading
More in this section (22)
More voices
Health news
What's new on wheels24
W24 - your life. your style
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We found 124 images on this website.
113 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 49 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on news24.com https://d5nxst8fruw4z.cloudfront.net/atrk.gif?account=wI6gl1asWhy36C 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on news24.com https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1106253262752192&ev=PageView&noscript=1 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on news24.com https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=0&sz=1&c=234 16
Image with missing alt attribute found on news24.com https://analytics.twitter.com/i/adsct?txn_id=l4nol&p_id=Twitter 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on news24.com //t.co/i/adsct?txn_id=l4nol&p_id=Twitter 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 113 images on news24.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 34.926
  • Likes 5.373
  • Shares 25.068
  • Comments 4.485

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registration Date 10/30/1997 27 years, 4 days ago
Last Modified 10/25/2019 5 years, 9 days ago
Expiration Date 10/29/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
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hope.ns.cloudflare.com 173.245.58.163 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Cloudflare, Inc.
  • IP Address
  • 104.16.252.81
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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