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Whois & Analysis for thepointsguy.com

Nov 21, 2019 7:54 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner has chosen to keep his whois contact information private.
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9 criteria passed
2 criteria to solve

PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
Non-Standard Content  >  Adult Content
• Alexa Rank
#5.815, thepointsguy.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 Let's Encrypt has expired on February 10, 2020.
Title Tag
The Points Guy – Maximize your travel.
Length: 40 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Maximize your travel with hands-on travel advice, guides, reviews, deal alerts, and more from The Points Guy. Check out our recommendations so you can travel more often and more comfortably.
Length: 190 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

The Points Guy – Maximize your travel.

https://thepointsguy.com

Maximize your travel with hands-on travel advice, guides, reviews, deal alerts, and more from The Points Guy. Check out our recommendations so you can travel more of...

Mobile Version

https://thepointsguy.com

The Points Guy – Maximize your travel.

Maximize your travel with hands-on travel advice, guides, reviews, deal alerts, and more from The Points Guy. Check out our recomm...

Encoding
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Hreflang Tags
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

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

2.1s

This domain loads at the median speed of 2.1 seconds.

Speed Percentile

40%

thepointsguy.com is faster than approximately 40 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 #5.815 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • thepointsguy.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 7 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (83.9%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (16.1%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #33.324
Flag for SingaporeSingapore #6.191
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #1.150
Flag for AustraliaAustralia #8.338
Flag for South AfricaSouth Africa #3.387

LAYOUT

Doctype HTML5 Arrow Responsive website, mobile-friendly. Arrow

Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 29% #ffffff
  • 29% #f0f0f0
  • 19% #d0e0e0
  • 4% #c0d0e0
  • 3% #f0f0ff
  • 2% #10a070
  • 2% #f0ffff
  • 1% #fffff0
  • 1% #d0e0f0
  • 1% #fff0f0
  • 1% #301010
  • 1% #f0fff0

Text/code ratio

thepointsguy.com's text/code ratio is 3.82%. 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 3.82%

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> 7
  • <H3> 4
  • <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>
2nd level heading
The latest
News
Reviews
Deals
What are points worth?
<H3>
3rd level heading
Top cards today
Our monthly valuations
All stories
Advertiser disclosure
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 43 images on this website.
20 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on thepointsguy.com https://i2.wp.com/thepointsguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Southwest-airlines-plane-exterior-gene... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on thepointsguy.com https://i0.wp.com/thepointsguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/5570d9a0-49b8-11e9-a27b-d7eb75c86209-1... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on thepointsguy.com https://i2.wp.com/thepointsguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/capital-one-venture-rewards-credit-car... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on thepointsguy.com https://i1.wp.com/thepointsguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/the-platinum-card-from-american-expres... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on thepointsguy.com https://i1.wp.com/thepointsguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ink-business-preferred-credit-card-040... 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 20 images on thepointsguy.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.

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  • Total Engagement 8.808
  • Likes 1.969
  • Shares 6.167
  • Comments 672
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