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Whois & Analysis for pressherald.com

Dec 3, 2019 6:21 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
September 7, 1995 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
28 years, 7 months, 22 days
• Alexa Rank
#32.293, pressherald.com is in the world's top 50.000 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 October 9, 2020.
Title Tag
The Portland Press Herald - Maine Sunday Telegram
Length: 49 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Features news from the Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. Serves southern Maine from Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Gorham, Falmouth to Lewiston-Auburn.
Length: 152 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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The Portland Press Herald - Maine Sunday Telegram

https://pressherald.com

Features news from the Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. Serves southern Maine from Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Gorham, Falmouth to Lewiston-Auburn.

Mobile Version

https://pressherald.com

The Portland Press Herald - Maine Sunday Telegram

Features news from the Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. Serves southern Maine from Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Gorham, Falmou...

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.

Robots.txt
No robots.txt file was found on this page.
URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

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

They are the main concepts covered by pressherald.com.

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

Topics
Portland Press Herald Confidence: 91% Arrow up

The Portland Press Herald (and Maine Sunday Telegram; collectively known as The Portland Newspapers) publish daily newspapers in the city of Portland, Maine, in the United States.

Serving the state's largest and principal commercial city, as well as much of southern Maine, the Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram form the largest-circulation newsroom in the state.

Cape Elizabeth, Maine Confidence: 87% Arrow up

Cape Elizabeth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.

The town is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.

As of the 2010 census, Cape Elizabeth had a population of 9,015.

Falmouth, Maine Confidence: 85% Arrow up

Falmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.

The population was 11,185 at the 2010 census.

It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.

Gorham, Maine Confidence: 82% Arrow up

Gorham is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.

The population was 16,381 at the 2010 census.

The 2012 estimate of Gorham's population was 16,667.

In addition to its urban village center known as Gorham Village or simply "the Village," the town encompasses a number of smaller, unincorporated villages and hamlets with distinct historical identities, including South Gorham, West Gorham, Little Falls, White Rock, and North Gorham.

Gorham is home to one of the three campuses of the University of Southern Maine.

In 2013, Gorham was voted second best town in Maine after Hampden by a financial website.

Lewiston–Auburn Confidence: 78% Arrow up

Lewiston–Auburn (L–A) are twin cities in Androscoggin County, Maine, USA.

Together, they have a population of 59,647 in a combined.

The cities are commonly called "Cities of the Androscoggin," as they are seated along the banks of the Androscoggin River which separates them.

They share infrastructure and transportation, such as the Lewiston-Auburn CityLink, the Lewiston and Auburn Railroad Company and the Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport.

They also form the Lewiston-Auburn Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Androscoggin County.

The Lewiston–Auburn Economic Growth Council has been promoting the cities as one community for decades in its campaign to promote growth in industry and business.

WEBSITE SPEED

pressherald.com website speed is normal. 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

46%

pressherald.com is faster than approximately 46 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 #32.293 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • pressherald.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 2 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (91.2%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (8.8%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #6.426
Flag for IndiaIndia #116.859

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 44% #f0f0f0
  • 43% #ffffff
  • 3% #302010
  • 1% #403020
  • 1% #fffff0
  • 1% #fff0f0
  • 1% #605040
  • 1% #908070
  • 1% #60b080
  • 0% #f0ffff
  • 0% #d0c0b0
  • 0% #a09080

Text/code ratio

pressherald.com's text/code ratio is 5.01%. 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 5.01%

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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Great, we found headings on this page.

  • <H1> 0
  • <H2> 116
  • <H3> 46
  • <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
New mayor, councilor take office in portland, marking a couple of firsts
Biddeford ‘sting’ reveals drivers largely undeterred by new handheld cellphone law (2)
Second round of winter storm likely to make morning commute ‘a mess’
Maine’s holiday retail season kicks off strong, with online sales really clicking (2)
The race is on for recreational marijuana licenses in maine
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3rd level heading
Related stories
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Portland school board inaugurates new members
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 271 images on this website.
202 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 85 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

For a better readability, only the first 50 images missing a description are shown below.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on pressherald.com https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/themes/mainetoday/assets/images/pph-fixed-icon.png 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on pressherald.com https://i1.wp.com/multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/12889810_20191202_Inauguration... 2
Image with missing alt attribute found on pressherald.com https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif 61
Image with missing alt attribute found on pressherald.com https://i1.wp.com/multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11885075_20191106_Snyder_0063-... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on pressherald.com https://i1.wp.com/multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/12439226_20191120_handsfree_01... 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 202 images on pressherald.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 5.556
  • Likes 731
  • Shares 4.630
  • Comments 195

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC
Registration Date 09/07/1995 28 years, 7 months, 22 days ago
Last Modified 09/08/2018 5 years, 7 months, 21 days ago
Expiration Date 09/06/2023 Expired

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Cloudflare, Inc.
  • IP Address
  • 104.26.1.186
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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