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Whois & Analysis for theindependent.com

Nov 23, 2019 9:11 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
March 21, 1996 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
28 years, 8 months, 1 day
• Alexa Rank
#386.517, theindependent.com is in the world's top 1 million 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 2, 2020.
Title Tag
theindependent.com | Central Nebraska's Comprehensive News Authority
Length: 68 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
The Grand Island Independent is Central Nebraska's Comprehensive News Authority
Length: 79 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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theindependent.com | Central Nebraska's Comprehensive News Authority

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The Grand Island Independent is Central Nebraska's Comprehensive News Authority

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theindependent.com | Central Nebraska's Comprehensive News Authority

The Grand Island Independent is Central Nebraska's Comprehensive News Authority

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author The Grand Island Independent
viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0, shrink-to-fit=no

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 theindependent.com.

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

Topics
Grand Island Independent Confidence: 87% Arrow up

The Grand Island Independent is a newspaper published in Grand Island, Nebraska.

The Independent is published every day of the year but Christmas Day.

Nebraska Confidence: 80% Arrow up

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

The state is bordered by South Dakota to the north, Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River, Kansas to the south, Colorado to the southwest and Wyoming to the west.

Its area is just over 77,220 sq mi (200,000 km2) with almost 1.9 million people.

Its state capital is Lincoln.

Its largest city is Omaha, which is on the Missouri River.

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

2.5s

This domain loads at the median speed of 2.5 seconds.

Speed Percentile

34%

theindependent.com is faster than approximately 34 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.

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TRAFFIC

This website is ranked #386.517 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • theindependent.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 1 country
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (61.8%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (38.2%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #119.671

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

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  • 26% #ffffff
  • 16% #403030
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Text/code ratio

theindependent.com's text/code ratio is 2.00%. 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 2.00%

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> 2
  • <H3> 22
  • <H4> 87
  • <H5> 8
  • <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.

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2nd level heading
State fair passes 2020 budget but not before its chief of finance resigns
Photos for publication on saturday, november 23, 2019
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3rd level heading
The latest
Top stories
Fun, excitement and nostalgia downtown; tree moves from city hall to railside plaza
Photos: discovery day at centura public schools
Huskers hope to keep running game going against maryland
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4th level heading
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David reazola, noah okraska lead harvard to six man championship (2)
Saturday salute: farmers make our holiday feast possible (2)
’tis the season to be anxious (2)
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Today
Tonight
14-year-old accused of attempted murder
Grand ısland area chamber of commerce announces 2020 ‘top 35 under 35’
Hall county supervisor cited, three transported following injury accident monday afternoon
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We found 83 images on this website.
5 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Alternative text allows you to add a description to an image.

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SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

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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.

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  • Total Engagement 4.337
  • Likes 203
  • Shares 3.756
  • Comments 378

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar GODADDY.COM, LLC
Registration Date 03/21/1996 28 years, 8 months, 1 day ago
Last Modified 03/22/2019 5 years, 8 months ago
Expiration Date 03/22/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns51.domaincontrol.com 97.74.105.26 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns52.domaincontrol.com 173.201.73.26 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Lee Enterprises
  • IP Address
  • 192.104.182.109
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Illinois , Chicago
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 41.8781 : -87.6298
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