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Whois & Analysis for straight.com

Dec 13, 2019 1:18 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Contact Name
Vancouver Free Press
• Organization
Vancouver Free Press
• Address
1701 West Broadway
• City
Vancouver
• Zip Code
V6J 1Y3
• State
BC
• Country Code
CA
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Vancouver Free Press See more
• Category
Travel  >  Canada
• Online since
December 14, 1994 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
29 years, 10 months, 26 days
• Alexa Rank
#61.026, straight.com is in the world's top 100.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by Sectigo Limited has expired on October 3, 2020.
Title Tag
The Georgia Straight, Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly
Length: 65 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Local Vancouver news and the premier guide for events, music, arts, movies, restaurants, food, dining, nightlife, and things to do in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Length: 156 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

The Georgia Straight, Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly

https://straight.com

Local Vancouver news and the premier guide for events, music, arts, movies, restaurants, food, dining, nightlife, and things to do in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Mobile Version

https://straight.com

The Georgia Straight, Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly

Local Vancouver news and the premier guide for events, music, arts, movies, restaurants, food, dining, nightlife, and things to do...

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.

URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
robots follow, index
expires 0
viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=4

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 straight.com.

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

Topics
Entertainment Weekly Confidence: 88% Arrow up

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Time Inc., that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

The Georgia Straight Confidence: 86% Arrow up

The Georgia Straight is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by the Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corp.

As surveyed by VAC its per-issue circulation average, is 119,971 copies, and its average weekly readership is 804,000.

Its website traffic ranked 47,339 globally and 1,458 within Canada, from Alexa.

Canada Confidence: 75% Arrow up

Canada (French) is a country in the northern half of North America.

Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering, making it the world's second-largest country by total area and the fourth-largest country by land area.

Canada's border with the United States is the world's longest binational land border.

The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer.

Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains.

It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border.

One third of the population lives in the three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Its capital is Ottawa, and other major urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg and Hamilton.

Nightclub Confidence: 64% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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

Get insights to improve your page loading time.

Page Loading Time

1.7s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.7 seconds.

Speed Percentile

52%

straight.com is faster than approximately 52 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 #61.026 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • straight.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 4 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (4.8%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (20.2%)
  • Flag for CanadaCanada (62.9%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (12.1%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #92.070
Flag for PakistanPakistan #31.076
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #56.461
Flag for CanadaCanada #1.901

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 35% #f0f0f0
  • 33% #ffffff
  • 17% #000000
  • 3% #303020
  • 2% #100000
  • 1% #fffff0
  • 1% #fff0f0
  • 1% #201000
  • 1% #f0ffff
  • 1% #f08080
  • 0% #b02050
  • 0% #200000

Text/code ratio

straight.com's text/code ratio is 9.60%. 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 9.60%

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> 1
  • <H2> 17
  • <H3> 79
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Home
<H2>
2nd level heading
Latest stories
Featured
News
Music
Arts
<H3>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H3> tags are shown below.

3rd level heading
The starling effect: of dreams, murmurs, and matters of the heart (3)
After neighbour reports break-and-enter, chilliwack rcmp arrest 40-year-old male suspect from yarrow, b.c. (2)
Vancouver park board prepares for 100th anniversary of polar bear swim in english bay (2)
B.c. first nations call for emergency declaration on fraser river salmon obstacle (2)
Wanted: two warrants issued for 28-year-old man known to frequent metro vancouver and fraser valley (2)
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We found 40 images on this website.
39 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 31 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on straight.com //d2ciprw05cjhos.cloudfront.net/files/v3/styles/gs_feature/public/images/19/12/starling.jpg?itok=Nxw... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on straight.com //d2ciprw05cjhos.cloudfront.net/files/v3/styles/gs_thumbnail/public/images/19/12/nuts.jpg?itok=1vdo_... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on straight.com //d2ciprw05cjhos.cloudfront.net/files/v3/styles/gs_thumbnail/public/images/19/12/good_noise_publicit... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on straight.com //d2ciprw05cjhos.cloudfront.net/files/v3/styles/gs_thumbnail/public/images/18/06/gettyimages-6264267... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on straight.com //d2ciprw05cjhos.cloudfront.net/files/v3/styles/gs_thumbnail/public/images/19/12/anneat13000ft.jpg?i... 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 39 images on straight.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 6.298
  • Likes 1.163
  • Shares 4.415
  • Comments 720

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC
Registration Date 12/14/1994 29 years, 10 months, 26 days ago
Last Modified 03/07/2018 6 years, 8 months, 2 days ago
Expiration Date 12/13/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns9.worldnic.com 207.204.40.105 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns10.worldnic.com 207.204.21.105 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Amazon.com, Inc.
  • IP Address
  • 54.83.203.138
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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