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SEO audit: www.washingtonpost.com

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Mobile view
This website is optimal for mobile devices!
Tablet view
This website is optimal for tablet devices!
Mobile appearance
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Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis ...

www.washingtonpost.com/
Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world national news, entertainment more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic ...

Domain / URL audit

URL
Domain : www.washingtonpost.com/
Length (characters) : 23
Alexa
Alexa global rank: 199
Alexa rank (United States): 52
IP checking
The 192.33.31.66 ip address is not on the spam list.
Visitors position
CountryPercentage
United States76.8%
Canada2.5%
India2.3%
United Kingdom1.7%
Mexico0.9%
Australia0.9%
China0.6%
Korea, Republic of0.6%
France0.6%
Brazil0.6%
South Africa0.6%
Other11.8%
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Meta data

Keywords (meta keywords)
washington d.c. news,dc news,virginia news,maryland news,breaking news video,photos,world news,local news,national news,us news,foreign news,dc traffic;dc weather,Obama,government,federal government,W

Error! Using “meta keywords” is meaningless! Google does not use it for ranking websites since 2009.
Description (meta description)
Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world national news, entertainment more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more.

Length (characters) : 211

Suggestion! The length of the meta description should be between 70 and 160 characters.
Open Graph Protocol
Excellent! The OG (Open Graph) protocol is set on this website.

description: Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world national news, entertainment more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more.
site_name: Washington Post
image: https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/resources/img/twp-3000x1568.jpg
title: Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
url: http://www.washingtonpost.com

Dublin Core
Error! The website does not use the Dublin Core schema.

SEO audit: Content analysis

Language
Error! No language localisation is found.
Title
Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis - The Washington Post

Length (characters) : 87

Improve! The website address (title) should be between 10 and 70 characters in length.
Text / HTML ratio
Ratio : 6%

Error! The text / HTML code ratio is under 15 percent on this website. This value shows that the website has relatively few text content.
Flash
Excellent! The website does not have any flash contents.
Frame
Excellent! The website does not use iFrame solutions.
Keywords cloud
world  student  privacy  security  live  sports  business  football  hours  years  lifestyle  service  stories  national  man  bye  cancer  thought  products  million  entertainment  bernardino  investigation  politics  washington  photos  clemson  faith  college  baffling  san  playoff  said  shooting  after  post  federal  president  policy  top  digital  journey  ago  now  state  sale  opinions  life  video  local  own  terms  home  donald  terrorist  tashfeen  next  pharmacy  play  malik 
Keywords consistency
Keyword Content Title Description (meta description) Headings (headings)
post 15
ago 14
washington 13
terms 11
san 10
bernardino 10
Keywords (2 words) Content Title Description (meta description) Headings (headings)
san bernardino 7
hours ago 6
pharmacy student 4
washington post 3
michigan state 3
terms of service 3
Keywords (3 words) Content Title Description (meta description) Headings (headings)
let’s teach muslims 2
man thought to have 2
discussion policy rss 2
they ever show 2
jimmy carter just 2
republican presidential debate 2
Headings (headings)
Error! The website does not use (H) tags.
Images
We found 66 images on this web page.

Alternate attributes for the following 63 images are missing. Search engines use "alt" tags to understand image content efficiently. We strongly recommend fixing this issue.

SEO audit: technology

Redirection (www / not www)
Excellent! The web address is accessible only in one version. The version without www is redirected to the version with www.
Favicon
Excellent! The website uses favicon.
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Perfect! The character encoding is set: UTF-8.
Deprecated HTML
Excellent! No deprecated HTML tags are detected.
Printability
Suggestion! Unfortunately, no printer-friendly CSS found.
404 Page
The website has a 404 error page.
Checking the robots.txt file
There is robots.txt file.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/robots.txt
User-agentDisallow (parts which have been disallowed for the search engines)
*
  • /*_print.html
  • /*_email.html
  • /*_singlePage.html
  • /*_allComments.html
  • /*_jsn.json
  • /*_jsonpStatic.js
  • /*_nitf.xml
  • /*_newsml.html
  • /*_qa.html
  • /*_meta.xml
  • /*_jsnp.js
  • /*_json.json
  • /*_search.html
  • /*_jsonp.js
  • /*_jsnpStatic.js
  • /*_rss.xml
  • /*_mobile.mobile
  • /*_mobile.xml
  • /*_allCommentsClassicBlog.html
  • /*_seo.html
  • /*_nimbusJson.json
  • /*_nimbusJsonp.js
  • /*_nimbusJsonpStatic.js
  • /*_modal.html
  • /todays_paper/
  • /rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Epaper/
  • /ac2/
  • /blogs/slow-ride/
  • /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-story-tanked
  • /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-story-achenblog
  • /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-stream-tanked
  • /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-front
  • /utils
  • /jobs/JS_JobSearchResult
  • /jobs/UpdateJobEmployerCounterServlet
  • /jobs/JS_Login
  • /jobs/EU_UpdateJobEmployerCounter
  • /blogs/nationals-journal-beta/
  • /blogs/test/
  • /posttv-beta/
  • /posttv/sponsored-video/
  • /posttv/c/trendex/
  • /posttv/c/video_search/
  • /posttv/posttv/trendex
  • /rweb/
  • /wp-stat/vrroom/
  • /classic-apps/
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Twitterbot
Googlebot-News
  • /sf/brand-connect/wp/
  • /posttv/sponsored-video/
  • /posttv/c/trendex/
  • /posttv/posttv/trendex
ia_archiver
  • All subpages are denied


Sitemap
Excellent! Sitemap is used on this website.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/web-sitemap-index.xml
Google Analytics
The Google Analytics tracking code is missing.
Google Tag Manager
Suggestion! The website does not use the Google Tag Manager.
Email encryption
Warning! The website contains at least one unencrypted email address.
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