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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner

Private

• Category

News / Weather / Information

• Online since

June 6, 2007 Explore Wayback Machine

• Age

16 years, 10 months, 17 days

• Alexa Rank

#16.822, politifact.com is in the world's top 20.000 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 May 27, 2020.

✅ Title Tag

Fact-checking U.S. politics | PolitiFact
Length: 40 (recommended: 10 to 70)

✅ Meta Description

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.
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Fact-checking U.S. politics | PolitiFact

https://politifact.com

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

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https://politifact.com

Fact-checking U.S. politics | PolitiFact

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

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They are the main concepts covered by politifact.com.

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Topics

PolitiFact.com Confidence: 83%

PolitiFact.com is a project operated by the Tampa Bay Times, in which reporters and editors from the Times and affiliated media fact check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups. They publish original statements and their evaluations on the PolitiFact.com website, and assign each a "Truth-O-Meter" rating. The ratings range from "True" for completely accurate statements to "Pants on Fire" (from the taunt "Liar, liar, pants on fire") for false and ridiculous claims.

Fact checking Confidence: 69%

Fact checking is the act of checking factual assertions in non-fictional text in order to determine the veracity and correctness of the factual statements in the text. This may be done either before (ante hoc) or after (post hoc) the text has been published or otherwise disseminated.

Politics of the United States Confidence: 64%

Truth Confidence: 61%

WEBSITE SPEED

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Page Loading Time

1.3s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.3 seconds.

Speed Percentile

67%

politifact.com is faster than approximately 67 percent of the web. Your website page speed needs to be as fast as you can make it, without compromising the customer experience.

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TRAFFIC

ⓘ This website is ranked #16.822 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

United States of America (86.4%)
Others (13.6%)

Traffic country ranks

Country	Rank
India	#191.194
United States of America	#3.239
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	#16.634
Canada	#14.648

LAYOUT

ⓘ Doctype HTML5

ⓘ Responsive website, mobile-friendly.

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Text/code ratio

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Text / Code Ratio 10.47%

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<H1>

Top level heading
Trump wrongly casts blame on yovanovitch for somalia
ımpeachment and bribery: what you need to know
ıs congress doing anything besides impeachment?
5 key moments from ousted ukraine ambassador's testimony
Offices
State editions (2)
Special editions (2)
Policy (2)
Advertise with us (2)
About us (2)
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The facts
How to contact us
Beyond the truth-o-meter
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After the fact
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<H4>

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The latest from the trump-o-meter
Fact-checking around the web
Donald trump and new york’s veterans day parade
Meme falsely attributes quote to cnn anchor
Trump misrepresents ımpeachment exchange
Fact checking biden’s cnn town hall
Warren’s misleading pitch for her tax on billionaires
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❌ Alt attributes

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LINKS

ⓘ There is a total of 203 links on the homepage of this website.

ⓘ Internal links : 189

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Anchor	Type	URL
No anchor	empty	/truth-o-meter/
No anchor	empty	/truth-o-meter/article/2009/apr/20/politifact-wins-pulitzer/
Read it here	text	/privacy/
No anchor	empty	//www.facebook.com/politifact/
No anchor	empty	//www.twitter.com/politifact/
National	text	/truth-o-meter/
PunditFact	text	/punditfact/
Health Check	text	/health-check/
Facebook Hoaxes	text	/facebook-fact-checks/
California	text	/california/
Florida	text	/florida/
Illinois	text	/illinois/
Missouri	text	/missouri/
New Hampshire	text	/new-hampshire/
New York	text	/new-york/
North Carolina	text	/north-carolina/
Pennsylvania	text	/pennsylvania/
Texas	text	/texas/
Virginia	text	/virginia/
West Virginia	text	/west-virginia/
Vermont	text	/vermont/
Wisconsin	text	/wisconsin/
Truth-O-MeterTM	text	/truth-o-meter/statements/
All	text	/truth-o-meter/statements/
By subject	text	/subjects/
True	text	/truth-o-meter/rulings/true/
Mostly True	text	/truth-o-meter/rulings/mostly-true/
Half True	text	/truth-o-meter/rulings/half-true/
Mostly False	text	/truth-o-meter/rulings/barely-true/
False	text	/truth-o-meter/rulings/false/
Pants on Fire!	text	/truth-o-meter/rulings/pants-fire/
No Flip	text	/truth-o-meter/rulings/no-flip/
Half Flip	text	/truth-o-meter/rulings/half-flip/
Full Flop	text	/truth-o-meter/rulings/full-flop/
People	text	/personalities/
Donald Trump	text	/personalities/donald-trump/
Mike Pence	text	/personalities/mike-pence/
Barack Obama	text	/personalities/barack-obama/
Chain E-mails	text	/personalities/chain-email/
Other people and groups	text	/personalities/
Promises	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/
Trump-O-Meter	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/
All	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/browse/
Top 25 Promises	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/subjects/politifacts-top-promises/
By subject	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/subjects/
Not yet rated	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/not-yet-rated/
In the Works	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/in-the-works/
Stalled	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/stalled/
Promise Kept	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/promise-kept/
Compromise	text	/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/compromise/

ⓘ External links : 14

Anchor	Type	URL
	image	https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?amount=35&installmentperiod=yearly&org_id=pol...
	image	https://www.factcheck.org/
Donald Trump and New York’s Veterans Day Parade	text	https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/donald-trump-and-new-yorks-veterans-day-parade/?platform=hootsuite
FactCheck.org	text	https://www.factcheck.org/
Meme Falsely Attributes Quote to CNN Anchor	text	https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/meme-falsely-attributes-quote-to-cnn-anchor/?platform=hootsuite
Trump Misrepresents Impeachment Exchange	text	https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/trump-misrepresents-impeachment-exchange/
Fact Checking Biden’s CNN Town Hall	text	https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/factchecking-bidens-cnn-town-hall/
	image	https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker
Warren’s misleading pitch for her tax on billionaires	text	https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/15/warrens-misleading-pitch-her-tax-billionaires/
Washington Post FactChecker	text	https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker
Media Kit	text	https://static.politifact.com/files/politifact-mediakit-june2018.pdf
Market info	text	https://static.politifact.com/files/politifact-mediakit-june2018.pdf
Rates & Specs	text	https://static.politifact.com/files/politifact-mediakit-june2018.pdf
As Seen On	text	https://static.politifact.com/files/politifact-mediakit-june2018.pdf

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

ⓘ Domain Registrar	GODADDY.COM, LLC
ⓘ Registration Date	06/06/2007 16 years, 10 months, 17 days ago
ⓘ Last Modified	06/07/2019 4 years, 10 months, 16 days ago
ⓘ Expiration Date	06/06/2020 Expired