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Whois & Analysis for theonion.com

Dec 5, 2019 3:13 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Organization
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
• Address
251 Little Falls Drive
• City
Wilmington
• Zip Code
19808
• State
DE
• Country Code
US
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. See more
• Category
Humor  >  Arts & Entertainment
• Online since
March 21, 1995 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
29 years, 28 days
• Alexa Rank
#7.563, theonion.com is in the world's top 10.000 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 July 12, 2020.
Title Tag
The Onion | America's Finest News Source.
Length: 41 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.
Length: 112 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

The Onion | America's Finest News Source.

https://theonion.com

The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.

Mobile Version

https://theonion.com

The Onion | America's Finest News Source.

The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.

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
viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=10.0
robots INDEX, FOLLOW

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 theonion.com.

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

Topics
The Onion Confidence: 76% Arrow up

The Onion is an American digital media company and news satire organization that publishes articles on international, national, and local news.

Based in Chicago, the company originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin.

In the spring of 1996 The Onion began publishing online.

In 2007, the organization began publishing satirical news audio and video online, as the Onion News Network.

In 2013, The Onion ceased publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency.

Source (journalism) Confidence: 66% Arrow up

In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or other record or document that gives timely information.

Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as "news sources".

Examples of sources include official records, publications or broadcasts, officials in government or business, organizations or corporations, witnesses of crime, accidents or other events, and people involved with or affected by a news event or issue.

Photograph Confidence: 61% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

theonion.com website speed is fast. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

1s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1 seconds.

Speed Percentile

79%

theonion.com is faster than approximately 79 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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Lighthouse Results

TRAFFIC

This website is ranked #7.563 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • theonion.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 6 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (73.1%)
  • Flag for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (3.2%)
  • Flag for CanadaCanada (7.1%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (16.6%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #28.477
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #1.719
Flag for Hong KongHong Kong #6.572
Flag for AustraliaAustralia #8.548
Flag for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland #5.361

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 45% #ffffff
  • 36% #f0f0f0
  • 9% #000000
  • 2% #c0b0a0
  • 2% #f0ffff
  • 1% #fffff0
  • 1% #90b0a0
  • 1% #b0a090
  • 0% #a09080
  • 0% #f0f0ff
  • 0% #fff0f0
  • 0% #d0c0b0

Text/code ratio

theonion.com's text/code ratio is 0.88%. 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 0.88%

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> 22
  • <H3> 1
  • <H4> 6
  • <H5> 5
  • <H6> 2

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
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<H3>
3rd level heading
Jilted trump announces formation of cooler, way more powerful nato with his new best friends oman, macedonia, and suriname
<H4>
4th level heading
Jilted trump announces formation of cooler, way more powerful nato with his new best friends oman, macedonia, and suriname
One-eyed man who kamala harris locked up 25 years ago quietly removes tulsi gabbard mask
Relax, people: yes, the weird kid got hot, but he’s still weird
5 things to know about ‘playmobil: the movie’
Tips for moving out of the country
<H5>
5th level heading
More from the onion
Pros and cons of talking politics at work
Man’s life spent occasionally eating barbecue ın between doing things he hates
Trump announces plan to replace food stamps with new low-ıncome foraging program
Loved ones located all the way on other side of heaven
<H6>
6th level heading
Mom scolds child for pointing at homeless man ınstead of ıgnoring his very existence
Report: would’ve been nice ıf dad had loved original family this much
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 34 images on this website.
25 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 1 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

Image Image URL Occurrences
- data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw== 25

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 25 images on theonion.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 9.047
  • Likes 1.876
  • Shares 6.201
  • Comments 970

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registration Date 03/21/1995 29 years, 28 days ago
Last Modified 07/17/2018 5 years, 9 months, 5 days ago
Expiration Date 03/22/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns-1231.awsdns-25.org 205.251.196.207 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-1854.awsdns-39.co.uk 205.251.199.62 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-900.awsdns-48.net 205.251.195.132 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Fastly
  • IP Address
  • 151.101.2.166
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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