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Whois & Analysis for wtap.com

Dec 14, 2019 3:14 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner has chosen to keep his whois contact information private.
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
September 4, 1996 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
28 years, 2 months, 14 days
• Alexa Rank
#172.501, wtap.com is in the world's top 1 million websites

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by GoDaddy.com, Inc. has expired on May 26, 2021.
Title Tag
Parkersburg, West Virginia News, Weather & Sports | WTAP
Length: 60 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
WTAP - Parkersburg, Marietta and the entire Mid-Ohio Valley’s Online News Leader for Breaking News, Sports, and Weather in Parkersburg, Marietta, and the surrounding areas.
Length: 174 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

Parkersburg, West Virginia News, Weather & Sports | WTAP

https://wtap.com

WTAP - Parkersburg, Marietta and the entire Mid-Ohio Valley’s Online News Leader for Breaking News, Sports, and Weather in Parkersburg, Marietta, and the surrounding...

Mobile Version

https://wtap.com

Parkersburg, West Virginia News, Weather & Sports | WTAP

WTAP - Parkersburg, Marietta and the entire Mid-Ohio Valley’s Online News Leader for Breaking News, Sports, and Weather in Parkers...

Encoding
Great, language/character encoding is specified: utf-8
URL Resolve

No 301 redirects are in place to redirect traffic to your preferred domain. Pages that load successfully both with and without www. are treated as duplicate content! Not 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
language english
author WTAP

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 wtap.com.

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

Topics
Parkersburg, West Virginia Confidence: 86% Arrow up

Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States.

Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's third-largest city and the largest city in the Parkersburg–Marietta–Vienna Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The population was 31,492 at the 2010 census.

Its peak of population was more than 44,000 in 1960.

The city is about 14 miles south of Marietta, Ohio.

WTAP-TV Confidence: 79% Arrow up

WTAP-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Mid–Ohio Valley that is licensed to Parkersburg, West Virginia.

It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 (or virtual channel 15.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Independence Township, Ohio.

The station can also be seen on Suddenlink channel 4 and CAS Cable channel 3.

There's a high definition feed offered on Suddenlink digital channel 104 and CAS Cable digital channel 384.

Owned by Gray Television, WTAP is sister to low-powered Fox affiliate WOVA-LD and low-powered CBS outlet WIYE-LD.

The three television stations share studios on Market Street (official address is One Television Plaza) in downtown Parkersburg.

Marietta, Ohio Confidence: 73% Arrow up

Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Ohio, United States.

located in southeastern Ohio at the mouth of the Muskingum River at its confluence with the Ohio River.It is the second-largest city in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, West Virginia-Ohio (part) Metropolitan Statistical Area with a population of 14,085 at the 2010 census.

Ohio River Confidence: 71% Arrow up

The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

At the confluence, the Ohio is considerably bigger than the Mississippi (Ohio at Cairo: 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m3/s); Mississippi at Thebes: 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m3/s)) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, in no small part because its flow includes the mountain stream-fed tributaries along both banks of the Monongahela River and the Allegheny River as well as the tributaries of the Ohio itself.

Breaking news Confidence: 67% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

wtap.com website speed is slow. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

2.8s

This domain loads at the median speed of 2.8 seconds.

Speed Percentile

37%

wtap.com is faster than approximately 37 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 #172.501 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • wtap.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 1 country
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (75.3%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (24.7%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #161.811

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

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How wtap.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
  • 27% #f0f0f0
  • 15% #ffffff
  • 10% #003070
  • 7% #002050
  • 3% #f0f0e0
  • 3% #f0ffff
  • 3% #001030
  • 2% #a0b0d0
  • 2% #90a0c0
  • 2% #000020
  • 2% #fffff0
  • 2% #c0d0e0

Text/code ratio

wtap.com's text/code ratio is 4.98%. 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 4.98%

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> 1
  • <H2> 2
  • <H3> 31
  • <H4> 8
  • <H5> 17
  • <H6> 25
<H1>
Top level heading
Parkersburg, west virginia news, weather & sports | wtap
<H2>
2nd level heading
Your event here!
Nbc news headlines
<H3>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H3> tags are shown below.

3rd level heading
This ıs home: the castle and henderson hall at christmas
Stuffed animals collected for annual wmoa christmas zoo
Authorities break up alleged theft ring in jackson county
Panel vote sends trump impeachment charges to full house
Wtap 6 - this is home: the castle in marietta
<H4>
4th level heading
View election results
Ohio national guard opens marietta recruiting office
Early signs and symptoms of mild plaque psoriasis. search for psoriasis treatment options
31 indicted by the washington county grand jury
Veterans museum board to discuss closing 7th street location
<H5>
5th level heading
News
Livestream 2
Video
Obituaries
Wova live
<H6>

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6th level heading
Contact us
Advertise with wtap
Wtap-nbc
Wıye-cbs 26
Wova-fox
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 99 images on this website.
94 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 65 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

For a better readability, only the first 50 images missing a description are shown below.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on wtap.com https://media.graytvinc.com/designimages/Home_Nav_Icon.png 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on wtap.com https://media.graytvinc.com/designimages/Weather_Nav_Icon.png 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on wtap.com https://media.graytvinc.com/designimages/Sports_Nav_Icon.png 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on wtap.com https://media.graytvinc.com/designimages/Livestream_Nav_Icon.png 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on wtap.com https://media.graytvinc.com/designimages/GDM_CW_Nav_Logo.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 94 images on wtap.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!

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  • Facebook iconFacebook
  • Total Engagement 3.420
  • Likes 179
  • Shares 3.200
  • Comments 41

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar GODADDY.COM, LLC
Registration Date 09/04/1996 28 years, 2 months, 14 days ago
Last Modified 06/03/2019 5 years, 5 months, 17 days ago
Expiration Date 09/03/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
edns02.gray.tv 12.31.250.74 Flag for United StatesUnited States
edns04.gray.tv 207.86.105.29 Flag for United StatesUnited States
edns01.graydns.com 64.94.11.243 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Amazon.com, Inc.
  • IP Address
  • 52.44.42.61
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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