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Whois & Analysis for vox.com

Dec 29, 2019 10:13 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Organization
Vox Media, Inc.
• City
Washington
• Zip Code
20036
• State
DC
• Country Code
US
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Vox Media, Inc. See more
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
September 30, 1994 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
29 years, 6 months, 28 days
• Alexa Rank
#1.372, vox.com is in the world's top 2.000 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 February 18, 2021.
Title Tag
Vox - Understand the News
Length: 25 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission is simple: Explain the news. Politics, public policy, world affairs, pop culture, science, business, food, sports, and everything else that matters are part of our editorial ambit. Our goal is to move people from curiosity to understanding.
Length: 310 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Vox - Understand the News

https://vox.com

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission is simple: Explain the news. Politics, public policy, world affairs, pop culture, science, busi...

Mobile Version

https://vox.com

Vox - Understand the News

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission is simple: Explain the news. Politics, public policy, world...

Encoding
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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, shrink-to-fit=no

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

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

They are the main concepts covered by vox.com.

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

Topics
Popular culture Confidence: 69% Arrow up

Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century.

Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.

The most common pop culture categories are: entertainment (movies, music, television, games), sports, news (as in people/places in news), politics, fashion/clothes, technology, and slang.

Popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics.

Public policy Confidence: 69% Arrow up

Public policy is the principled guide to action taken by the administrative executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues, in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs.

The foundation of public policy is composed of national constitutional laws and regulations.

Further substrates include both judicial interpretations and regulations which are generally authorized by legislation.

Public policy is considered strong when it solves problems efficiently and effectively, serves justice, supports governmental institutions and policies, and encourages active citizenship.

Science Confidence: 68% Arrow up

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Politics Confidence: 68% Arrow up

Politics (from Greek Politiká: Politika, definition "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions applying to all members of each group.

More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance — organized control over a human community, particularly a state.

Furthermore, politics is the study or practice of the distribution of power and resources within a given community (this is usually a hierarchically organized population) as well as the interrelationship(s) between communities.

Business Confidence: 65% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

1.5s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.5 seconds.

Speed Percentile

59%

vox.com is faster than approximately 59 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 #1.372 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • vox.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 14 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (5.2%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (64.4%)
  • Flag for CanadaCanada (4.9%)
  • Flag for JapanJapan (12.6%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (14.4%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #2.586
Flag for SingaporeSingapore #1.369
Flag for PakistanPakistan #2.004
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #409
Flag for IrelandIreland #985

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

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

Main colors used

These are the main HTML color codes used by this website. Arrow
  • 49% #f0f0f0
  • 42% #ffffff
  • 3% #fffff0
  • 1% #203040
  • 1% #f0f0c0
  • 1% #000000
  • 0% #f0ffff
  • 0% #fff010
  • 0% #b08070
  • 0% #604020
  • 0% #d06050
  • 0% #f0f010

Text/code ratio

vox.com's text/code ratio is 2.90%. 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 2.90%

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> 59
  • <H3> 3
  • <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>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H2> tags are shown below.

2nd level heading
Follow vox online:
Site search
Vox main menu
Top stories
A new government study shows how trump’s tariffs have backfired
<H3>
3rd level heading
Video
Explainers
Podcasts
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 93 images on this website.
55 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 32 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on vox.com https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/P6yFcJwOPATfetWoemn2lwb-10c=/0x0:3000x2000/1200x800/filters:focal(20... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on vox.com https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/kd7dpCu6qlNuiOM0KoA9TDve0Aw=/0x0:5568x3712/1200x800/filters:focal(13... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on vox.com https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Vqn_kHWilS3mNFsQHyv8ql2k-eI=/0x0:3500x2412/1200x800/filters:focal(13... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on vox.com https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/oojCS_CRC-YKaNQTeebXIn_CLJc=/0x0:2000x887/1200x800/filters:focal(103... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on vox.com https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/10242919/vox-todayexplained-cover2.0.png 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 55 images on vox.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 62.788
  • Likes 9.786
  • Shares 46.493
  • Comments 6.509

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registration Date 09/30/1994 29 years, 6 months, 28 days ago
Last Modified 09/25/2019 4 years, 7 months, 2 days ago
Expiration Date 09/29/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns-221.awsdns-27.com 205.251.192.221 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-1283.awsdns-32.org 205.251.197.3 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-1679.awsdns-17.co.uk 205.251.198.143 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Fastly
  • IP Address
  • 151.101.193.52
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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