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Whois & Analysis for wcvb.com

Dec 3, 2019 4:33 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

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

• Domain Owner
Hearst Stations Inc. See more
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
April 18, 1995 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
29 years, 9 days
• Alexa Rank
#28.019, wcvb.com is in the world's top 50.000 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 April 23, 2020.
Title Tag
Boston News, Weather and Sports - Massachusetts News - WCVB Channel 5
Length: 69 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Get the latest Boston news, weather and sports online, anytime. Stay in the know with Boston’s news leader – WCVB.
Length: 118 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

Boston News, Weather and Sports - Massachusetts News - WCVB Channel 5

https://wcvb.com

Get the latest Boston news, weather and sports online, anytime. Stay in the know with Boston’s news leader – WCVB.

Mobile Version

https://wcvb.com

Boston News, Weather and Sports - Massachusetts News - WCVB Channel 5

Get the latest Boston news, weather and sports online, anytime. Stay in the know with Boston’s news leader – WCVB.

Encoding
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URL Resolve

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URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=5

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 wcvb.com.

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

Topics
Channel 5 (UK) Confidence: 80% Arrow up

Channel 5 is a British commercial television network.

It was launched in 1997, and was the fifth national terrestrial analogue network in the United Kingdom after BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, and Channel 4.

It is generally the fifth-placed network in the country in audience share, and has been since its inception.

Boston Confidence: 75% Arrow up

Boston (pronounced) is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999.

The city proper covers with an estimated population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England and the 23rd most populous city in the United States.

The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.7 million people in 2014 and ranking as the tenth-largest such area in the country.

Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area (CSA), this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, making it the sixth-largest as such in the United States.

Massachusetts Confidence: 73% Arrow up

Massachusetts or; officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York to the west.

The state is named for the Massachusett tribe, which once inhabited the area.

The capital of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England is Boston.

Over 80% of Massachusetts' population lives in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, a region influential upon American history, academia, and industry.

Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution.

During the 20th century, Massachusetts' economy shifted from manufacturing to services.

Modern Massachusetts is a global leader in biotechnology, engineering, higher education, finance, and maritime trade.

WCVB-TV Confidence: 73% Arrow up

WCVB-TV, channel 5, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

It is one of three flagship television stations of Hearst Television along with WBAL-TV and WTAE-TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation.

WCVB-TV maintains studio and transmitter facilities located separately in Needham, Massachusetts.

Springfield News-Leader Confidence: 62% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

wcvb.com website speed is fast. 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

83%

wcvb.com is faster than approximately 83 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 #28.019 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • wcvb.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 1 country
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (94.5%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (5.5%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #6.365

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 69% #606060
  • 16% #0060d0
  • 3% #304050
  • 3% #602020
  • 2% #1060c0
  • 1% #4080d0
  • 1% #e0e0e0
  • 1% #50a0f0
  • 1% #305080
  • 1% #4090e0
  • 1% #0060c0
  • 0% #d0d050

Text/code ratio

wcvb.com's text/code ratio is 2.37%. 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 2.37%

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> 2
  • <H2> 49
  • <H3> 1
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Search location by zıp code
Wcvb newscenter 5
<H2>

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

2nd level heading
Current location
Boston schools closed tuesday as round 2 of winter storm arrives
Video: here's what you'll wake up to tuesday morning
New charges issued in foster family abuse case
Patriots cut kicker after 1 game to make room for rookie defensive lineman
<H3>
3rd level heading
Wcvb boston
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 30 images on this website.
1 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Image Image URL Occurrences

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 1 images on wcvb.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 11.905
  • Likes 400
  • Shares 11.270
  • Comments 235

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registration Date 04/18/1995 29 years, 9 days ago
Last Modified 04/15/2019 5 years, 12 days ago
Expiration Date 04/19/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns-1932.awsdns-49.co.uk 205.251.199.140 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-750.awsdns-29.net 205.251.194.238 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-1154.awsdns-16.org 205.251.196.130 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Fastly
  • IP Address
  • 151.101.1.114
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • New Jersey , Newark
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 40.7357 : -74.1724
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