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Whois & Analysis for wgal.com

Nov 17, 2019 1:07 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

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

• Domain Owner
Hearst Properties Inc. See more
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
August 30, 1995 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
28 years, 8 months, 14 days
• Alexa Rank
#97.842, wgal.com is in the world's top 100.000 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
York, Lancaster and Harrisburg PA News, Weather and Sports - WGAL Channel 8
Length: 75 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Stay in the know with the top stories of the day. Get all the latest Harrisburg, Lancaster and York news, weather and sports from the WGAL News Team.
Length: 149 (recommended: 50 to 160)
Google preview
Desktop Version

York, Lancaster and Harrisburg PA News, Weather and Sports - WGAL Chan...

https://wgal.com

Stay in the know with the top stories of the day. Get all the latest Harrisburg, Lancaster and York news, weather and sports from the WGAL News Team.

Mobile Version

https://wgal.com

York, Lancaster and Harrisburg PA News, Weather and Sports - WGAL Chan...

Stay in the know with the top stories of the day. Get all the latest Harrisburg, Lancaster and York news, weather and sports from...

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,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 wgal.com.

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

Topics
WGAL Confidence: 85% Arrow up

WGAL, virtual channel and VHF digital channel 8, is an NBC-affiliated television station serving the Susquehanna Valley area, including Harrisburg, York, Lebanon and its city of license Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States since 1949.

The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation.

WGAL maintains studio facilities located on Columbia Avenue (PA 462) in Lancaster, and its transmitter is located near U.S. 30 north of Hallam (the site and tower is shared with radio partner, WROZ, 101.3 FM – which once had the WGAL-FM call sign).

On cable television, the station is available on Comcast Xfinity in standard definition on channel 3 and in high definition on digital channel 808.

Press Association Confidence: 80% Arrow up

The Press Association (PA) is a multimedia news agency operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

PA is part of PA Group Limited, a private company with 26 shareholders, most of whom are national and regional newspaper publishers.

The biggest shareholders include the, and.

PA Group also encompasses Globelynx, which provides TV-ready remotely monitored camera systems for corporate clients to connect with TV news broadcasters in the UK and worldwide; TNR, a specialist communications consultancy; and Sticky Content, the UK's leading digital copywriting and content strategy agency.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania Confidence: 72% Arrow up

Lancaster; is a city located in South Central Pennsylvania which serves as the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County and one of the oldest inland towns in the United States (along with Hartford, Connecticut; Springfield, Massachusetts; Petersburg, Virginia; Albany, New York; Schenectady, New York, and several other early settlements).

With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities.

The Lancaster metropolitan area population is 507,766, making it the 101st largest metropolitan area in the US and 2nd largest in the South Central Pennsylvania area.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Confidence: 67% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

0.5s

This domain loads at the median speed of 0.5 seconds.

Speed Percentile

94%

wgal.com is faster than approximately 94 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 #97.842 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • wgal.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 1 country
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (98.1%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (3.8%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #14.238

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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

Main colors used

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  • 73% #606060
  • 16% #0060d0
  • 3% #204060
  • 3% #1060c0
  • 1% #4080d0
  • 1% #e0e0e0
  • 1% #4090e0
  • 1% #50a0f0
  • 1% #0060c0
  • 0% #2070c0
  • 0% #d0d050
  • 0% #c0d0f0

Text/code ratio

wgal.com's text/code ratio is 2.00%. 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 2.00%

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> 38
  • <H3> 1
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Search location by zıp code
Wgal news 8 and weather
<H2>

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

2nd level heading
Current location
Update: rowhomes damaged by fire in harrisburg
Clouds return overnight; winter chill lingers for sunday
Hockey fights cancer at the hershey bears' unity night
Should young children play tackle football?
<H3>
3rd level heading
Wgal news 8 local pennsylvania
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 28 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 wgal.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 10.337
  • Likes 290
  • Shares 10.004
  • Comments 43

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registration Date 08/30/1995 28 years, 8 months, 14 days ago
Last Modified 08/25/2019 4 years, 8 months, 19 days ago
Expiration Date 08/29/2020 Expired
Nameservers Arrow up
Host IP Address Country
ns-750.awsdns-29.net 205.251.194.238 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-1932.awsdns-49.co.uk 205.251.199.140 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns-105.awsdns-13.com 205.251.192.105 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Fastly
  • IP Address
  • 151.101.193.114
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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