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Whois & Analysis for wbal.com

Dec 1, 2019 4:47 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Organization
The Hearst Corporation
• City
New York
• Zip Code
10019
• State
NY
• Country Code
US
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
The Hearst Corporation See more
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
• Age
29 years, 3 months, 27 days
• Alexa Rank
#150.578, wbal.com is in the world's top 1 million websites

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

SSL Certificate
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Title Tag
Baltimore News | Baltimore Weather, Traffic | WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5
Length: 74 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
WBAL.com offers News, Weather & Traffic updates in Baltimore, Maryland. Listen to WBAL on 1090 AM for the latest Baltimore news, weather and traffic coverage.
Length: 162 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

Baltimore News | Baltimore Weather, Traffic | WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 1...

http://wbal.com

WBAL.com offers News, Weather & Traffic updates in Baltimore, Maryland. Listen to WBAL on 1090 AM for the latest Baltimore news, weather and traffic coverage.

Mobile Version

http://wbal.com

Baltimore News | Baltimore Weather, Traffic | WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 1...

WBAL.com offers News, Weather & Traffic updates in Baltimore, Maryland. Listen to WBAL on 1090 AM for the latest Baltimore new...

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, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=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 wbal.com.

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

Topics
Baltimore Confidence: 82% Arrow up

Baltimore (locally) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 29th-most populous city in the country.

It was established by the Constitution of Maryland and is not part of any county; thus, it is the largest independent city in the United States, with a population of 621,849 as of 2015.

As of 2010, the population of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area was 2.7 million, making it the 21st largest in the country.

WBAL-TV Confidence: 79% Arrow up

WBAL-TV, channel 11, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

WBAL-TV is one of three flagship television stations of Hearst Television, and is co-owned with radio stations WBAL (1090 AM) and WIYY (97.9 FM).

The three stations share a studio and office facility on Television Hill in the Woodberry section of Baltimore, near the transmitting tower that WBAL-TV shares with WIYY and four other Baltimore television stations.

Baltimore News-American Confidence: 73% Arrow up

The Baltimore News-American was a Baltimore broadsheet newspaper with a continuous lineage (in various forms) of more than 200 years of Baltimore newspapers.

For much of the mid-20th century, it had the largest circulation in the city.

Its final edition was published on May 27, 1986.

Weather Confidence: 62% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

2.2s

This domain loads at the median speed of 2.2 seconds.

Speed Percentile

38%

wbal.com is faster than approximately 38 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 #150.578 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • wbal.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 1 country
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (97.7%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (4.6%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #36.022

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

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How wbal.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
  • 36% #ffffff
  • 32% #000000
  • 4% #f0f0f0
  • 3% #e0c0c0
  • 2% #600000
  • 2% #fff0f0
  • 2% #d0b0b0
  • 2% #e0e0f0
  • 1% #703030
  • 1% #f0ffff
  • 1% #702020
  • 1% #fffff0

Text/code ratio

wbal.com's text/code ratio is 7.79%. 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 7.79%

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> 5
  • <H3> 5
  • <H4> 29
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 1

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 3 things you need to know
Sponsors (2)
Continuing coverage: president trump
Project communıty
<H3>
3rd level heading
49ers next team up to try slowing jackson and ravens
More headlines
Latest podcasts
Videos
Shows on wbal
<H4>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H4> tags are shown below.

4th level heading
Mother killed, toddler ınjured ın accident ın middle river (2)
Police ınvestigate multiple atm thefts throughout baltimore (2)
Wbal news now with bryan nehman
The c4 show
The yuripzy morgan show
<H6>
6th level heading
Wbal newsradio 1090, fm 101.5 and the wbal mobile app. all day, every day: news, weather and traffic. also, insight and analysis, and your home for ravens and navy football.
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 47 images on this website.
28 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 27 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on wbal.com /content/weather/icons/small/rain.png 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on wbal.com /Content/play-button.svg 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on wbal.com https://cdn.s3-media.wbal.com/Media/2019/11/27/66713b87-ac9a-4524-9f6a-7722f04ad504/original.jpg 2
Image with missing alt attribute found on wbal.com https://img.youtube.com/vi/qi4r6WZsPkE/hqdefault.jpg 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on wbal.com https://img.youtube.com/vi/yVRXSoVphu4/hqdefault.jpg 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 28 images on wbal.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 6.047
  • Likes 126
  • Shares 5.876
  • Comments 45

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registration Date 07/26/1995 29 years, 3 months, 27 days ago
Last Modified 07/21/2019 5 years, 4 months, 1 day ago
Expiration Date 07/25/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns-1107.awsdns-10.org 205.251.196.83 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-821.awsdns-38.net 205.251.195.53 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-1670.awsdns-16.co.uk 205.251.198.134 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Amazon.com, Inc.
  • IP Address
  • 52.216.107.195
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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