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Whois & Analysis for polygon.com

Jan 15, 2020 3:15 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Organization
Vox Media, Inc.
• City
Washington
• Zip Code
20036
• State
DC
• Country Code
US
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Vox Media, Inc. See more
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
• Age
32 years, 3 months, 21 days
• Alexa Rank
#1.328, polygon.com is in the world's top 2.000 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 February 18, 2021.
Title Tag
Polygon
Length: 7 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Polygon is a gaming website in partnership with Vox Media. Our culture focused site covers games, their creators, the fans, trending stories and entertainment news.
Length: 164 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Polygon

https://polygon.com

Polygon is a gaming website in partnership with Vox Media. Our culture focused site covers games, their creators, the fans, trending stories and entertainment news.

Mobile Version

https://polygon.com

Polygon

Polygon is a gaming website in partnership with Vox Media. Our culture focused site covers games, their creators, the fans, trendi...

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URL Resolve

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URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

The results of our semantic analysis are shown below using the website's language.

They are the main concepts covered by polygon.com.

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

Topics
Vox Media Confidence: 91% Arrow up

Vox Media is an American multinational digital media company founded on August 1, 2002 by Jerome Armstrong, Tyler Bleszinsky, and Markos Moulitsas and based in Washington, D.C. and New York City.

It currently runs eight editorial brands: SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Vox, and Recode.

Vox's brands are built on Chorus, its proprietary content management system.

Polygon (website) Confidence: 81% Arrow up

Polygon is an American video game website that publishes news, culture, reviews, and videos that was launched on October 24, 2012.

The site distinguishes itself from competitors by focusing on the stories of the people behind the games instead of the games themselves.

They also produce long-form magazine-style feature articles, video content, and allow review scores to be updated as a game changes.

The 16-person founding staff included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites Joystiq, Kotaku, and The Escapist.

Vox produced a documentary series about the founding of the site.

Video game Confidence: 71% Arrow up

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but as of the 2000s, it implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images.

Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial.

Narrative Confidence: 69% Arrow up

A narrative or story is any report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images, or both.

Fandom Confidence: 67% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

1.3s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.3 seconds.

Speed Percentile

66%

polygon.com is faster than approximately 66 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 #1.328 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • polygon.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 20 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (57.4%)
  • Flag for AustraliaAustralia (3.9%)
  • Flag for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (6.4%)
  • Flag for CanadaCanada (4.3%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (28%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #6.520
Flag for SingaporeSingapore #1.018
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #378
Flag for Hong KongHong Kong #1.473
Flag for IrelandIreland #513

LAYOUT

Doctype HTML5 Arrow Responsive website, mobile-friendly. Arrow

Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 48% #f0f0f0
  • 11% #000000
  • 6% #807070
  • 3% #a02080
  • 3% #ffb070
  • 3% #c01060
  • 3% #f0b070
  • 2% #fff0f0
  • 2% #905050
  • 2% #504030
  • 1% #906060
  • 1% #904040

Text/code ratio

polygon.com's text/code ratio is 1.66%. 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 1.66%

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> 0
  • <H2> 48
  • <H3> 2
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <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>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H2> tags are shown below.

2nd level heading
Follow polygon online:
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Polygon main menu
All the money in the world couldn’t make kinect happen
Playstation wrap-up breaks down your ps4 playtime last year
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3rd level heading
All the money in the world couldn’t make kinect happen
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Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 78 images on this website.
7 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 5 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

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 7 images on polygon.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

This is an overview of your homepage shares on social networks.

You have a relatively high presence on social media, keep going!

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 3.677
  • Likes 384
  • Shares 3.059
  • Comments 234

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registration Date 07/17/1992 32 years, 3 months, 21 days ago
Last Modified 07/12/2019 5 years, 3 months, 26 days ago
Expiration Date 07/16/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
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ns-666.awsdns-19.net 205.251.194.154 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Fastly
  • IP Address
  • 151.101.1.52
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • New Jersey , Newark
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 40.7357 : -74.1724
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