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Dec 18, 2019 2:37 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
January 22, 1997 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
27 years, 3 months, 3 days
• Alexa Rank
#68.093, thegazette.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 Let's Encrypt has expired on February 4, 2020.
Title Tag
The Gazette | Local Iowa News, Sports, Obituaries, and Headlines - Cedar Rapids, Iowa City
Length: 90 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Local news, sports, hawkeyes, obituaries, events and more for Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the Corridor. Subscribe to The Gazette's daily newsletter.
Length: 148 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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The Gazette | Local Iowa News, Sports, Obituaries, and Headlines -...

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Local news, sports, hawkeyes, obituaries, events and more for Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the Corridor. Subscribe to The Gazette's daily newsletter.

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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

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

They are the main concepts covered by thegazette.com.

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

Topics
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Confidence: 89% Arrow up

Cedar Rapids is the second largest city in Iowa and is the county seat of Linn County.

The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, north of Iowa City and northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city.

It is a part of the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Corridor of Linn, Benton, Cedar, Jones, Johnson, and Washington counties.

Until massive flooding in 2008, the city's government was headquartered in the Veterans Memorial Building, near the Linn County Courthouse and jail on Mays Island in the Cedar River; Cedar Rapids was one of a few cities in the world, along with Paris, France, with governmental offices on a municipal island.

Iowa City, Iowa Confidence: 77% Arrow up

Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.

It is the only City of Literature in North America, as awarded by UNESCO in 2008.

As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of about 67,862.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the 2015 population at 74,220, making it the fifth-largest city in the state.

Iowa City is the county seat of Johnson County and home to the University of Iowa.

Iowa City is the principal city of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Johnson County and Washington County and has a population of over 164,000.

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Newspaper Confidence: 65% Arrow
Iowa Hawkeyes Confidence: 62% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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Page Loading Time

1.1s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.1 seconds.

Speed Percentile

76%

thegazette.com is faster than approximately 76 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 #68.093 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • thegazette.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 2 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (86.8%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (13.2%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #15.190
Flag for IndiaIndia #192.637

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

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  • 40% #000000
  • 37% #ffffff
  • 9% #f0f0f0
  • 2% #908070
  • 1% #f0ffff
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  • 1% #a09070
  • 1% #605040

Text/code ratio

thegazette.com's text/code ratio is 5.42%. 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 5.42%

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> 34
  • <H3> 49
  • <H4> 4
  • <H5> 2
  • <H6> 0
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Top storıes on the gazette
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2nd level heading
Hayden fry, coach who made ıowa hawkeyes winners, dies
Hayden fry brought the sizzle and the steak to ıowa
After 2 years of trying, cargill wins cedar rapids approval for rail yard in ...
Swisher community library aims to help patrons be informed about news websites
Outside political action committee prods for ernst vulnerability with poll
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3rd level heading
Creating a world of good: how state farm ıs helping...
Christmas cavaliers
Beautiful english bull dog/ dalmatian puppy
Siberian husky puppies
Childcare openings cca accepted
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4th level heading
Recommended
This week's hot deals
Obıtuary e-newsletter
Thank you!
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5th level heading
More lınks
Obits submitted to the gazette are published online and in the newspaper the next day.
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We found 17 images on this website.
12 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

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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 12 images on thegazette.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 1.727
  • Likes 69
  • Shares 1.623
  • Comments 35

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar GODADDY.COM, LLC
Registration Date 01/22/1997 27 years, 3 months, 3 days ago
Last Modified 01/18/2019 5 years, 3 months, 7 days ago
Expiration Date 01/23/2024 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
pdns03.domaincontrol.com 97.74.111.51 Flag for United StatesUnited States
pdns04.domaincontrol.com 173.201.79.51 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Google LLC
  • IP Address
  • 107.178.215.154
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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