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Whois & Analysis for thestar.com

Dec 14, 2019 2:10 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner has chosen to keep his whois contact information private.
• Contact Name
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• Organization
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• Address
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• City
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• Zip Code
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• State
ON
• Country Code
CA
• Phone Number
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• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
News / Weather / Information  >  Hobbies & Interests  >  Video & Computer Games
• Online since
November 7, 1995 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
28 years, 5 months, 27 days
• Alexa Rank
#6.512, thestar.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 Trustwave Holdings, Inc. has expired on October 19, 2020.
Title Tag
thestar.com | The Star | Canada's largest daily
Length: 47 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
thestar.com is Canada's largest online news site. From national coverage and issues to local headlines and stories across the country, the Star is your home for Canadian news and perspectives. Stay current with sports, business, entertainment stories and more at thestar.com.
Length: 275 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

thestar.com | The Star | Canada's largest daily

https://thestar.com

thestar.com is Canada's largest online news site. From national coverage and issues to local headlines and stories across the country, the Star is your home for Cana...

Mobile Version

https://thestar.com

thestar.com | The Star | Canada's largest daily

thestar.com is Canada's largest online news site. From national coverage and issues to local headlines and stories across the coun...

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, maximum-scale=2.0, user-scalable=yes

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 thestar.com.

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

Topics
Toronto Star Confidence: 78% Arrow up

The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.

It is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper.

It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation.

Canada Confidence: 76% 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.

Online newspaper Confidence: 67% Arrow
News Confidence: 67% Arrow
Newspaper Confidence: 65% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

0.9s

This domain loads at the median speed of 0.9 seconds.

Speed Percentile

84%

thestar.com is faster than approximately 84 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 #6.512 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • thestar.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 6 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (12.7%)
  • Flag for CanadaCanada (74.5%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (12.8%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #41.123
Flag for PhilippinesPhilippines #5.861
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #11.760
Flag for AustraliaAustralia #21.574
Flag for MexicoMexico #16.644

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 49% #f0f0f0
  • 29% #ffffff
  • 2% #a06040
  • 2% #e0b0a0
  • 2% #f0f0ff
  • 1% #d0a090
  • 1% #c09080
  • 1% #a07060
  • 1% #b08070
  • 1% #c08050
  • 1% #f0ffff
  • 1% #e0f0f0

Text/code ratio

thestar.com's text/code ratio is 2.23%. 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 2.23%

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> 3
  • <H3> 13
  • <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
Editor’s picks
Opinion
Recommended for you
<H3>
3rd level heading
Erin o’toole and peter mackay are preparing to enter the race to replace andrew scheer
How these toronto sleuths are exposing the world’s digital spies while risking their own lives
They left somalia for toronto, then their sons were killed in canada. these west-end mothers say they’re now ‘not scared of anything’
Watch the video: what happened inside barry and honey sherman’s home before they were murdered
‘ending up here is a love story.’ american writer john ırving becomes a canadian citizen
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 61 images on this website.
3 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

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 3 images on thestar.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.

Congratulations, your website is highly shared on social media! It's an excellent signal for your overall SEO strategy.

  • Facebook iconFacebook
  • Total Engagement 18.269
  • Likes 5.197
  • Shares 7.002
  • Comments 6.070

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar TUCOWS, INC.
Registration Date 11/07/1995 28 years, 5 months, 27 days ago
Last Modified 01/25/2019 5 years, 3 months, 7 days ago
Expiration Date 11/06/2021 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns-559.awsdns-05.net 205.251.194.47 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-480.awsdns-60.com 205.251.193.224 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-1770.awsdns-29.co.uk 205.251.198.234 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Toronto Star
  • IP Address
  • 192.206.150.106
  • Country
  • Flag for CanadaCanada
  • Region
  • Ontario , Toronto
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 43.6752 : -79.3472
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