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qth.com Website Information

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Daily Page Views: 46,605

Income Per Day: $117

Estimated Value: $70,200

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The highest website qth.com position in Alexa rank database was 33655 and the lowest rank position was 861458. Current position of qth.com in Alexa rank database is 146178.

Desktop speed score of qth.com (84/100) is better than the results of 78.07% of other sites and shows that the page is performing great on desktop computers.

Mobile usability score of qth.com (60/100) is better than the results of 3.95% of other sites and means that the page is not mobile-friendly.

Mobile speed score of qth.com (66/100) is better than the results of 68.49% of other sites and shows that the landing page performance on mobile devices is poor and can be improved.

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qth.com Alexa Rank

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Domain Name: QTH.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1073384_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com
Registrar URL: http://www.enomdomains.com
Updated Date: 2022-05-24T12:43:26Z
Creation Date: 1996-06-01T04:00:00Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2027-05-31T04:00:00Z
Registrar: eNom, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 48
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Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: NS11.QTH.COM
Name Server: NS12.QTH.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of whois database: 2024-09-20T16:56:24Z

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qth.com desktop page speed rank

Last tested: 2017-05-19

Desktop Speed Medium
84/100

qth.com Desktop Speed Test Quick Summary


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Number of Hosts11
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JavaScript Resources15
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qth.com mobile page speed rank

Last tested: 2017-05-15

Mobile Speed Medium
66/100

qth.com Mobile Speed Test Quick Summary


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qth.com mobile page usability

Last tested: 2017-05-15

Mobile Usability Bad
60/100

qth.com Mobile Usability Test Quick Summary


priority - 35Use legible font sizes

The following text on your page renders in a way that may be difficult for some of your visitors to read. Use legible font sizes to provide a better user experience.

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View All Banners and 1 others render only 5 pixels tall (13 CSS pixels).

Home renders only 5 pixels tall (12 CSS pixels).

Ham Radio Info and 4 others render only 5 pixels tall (12 CSS pixels).

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Recent Ads fro…m Classifieds! and 1 others render only 6 pixels tall (16 CSS pixels).

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priority - 3Size content to viewport

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qth.com HTML validation

Errors

Almost standards mode doctype. Expected “<!DOCTYPE html>”.

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"... <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html..."

Bad value “//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” for the attribute “xmlns” (only “http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” permitted here).

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"...onal.dtd"> <html dir="ltr" xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head..."

Internal encoding declaration “iso-8859-1” disagrees with the actual encoding of the document (“utf-8”).

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"...nds!."> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <m..."

Bad value “text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1” for attribute “content” on element “meta”: “iso-8859-1” is not a preferred encoding name. The preferred label for this encoding is “windows-1252”.

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"...nds!."> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <m..."

Using the “meta” element to specify the document-wide default language is obsolete. Consider specifying the language on the root element instead.

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"...59-1"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <m..."

Element “ul” not allowed as child of element “span” in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

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"...: 951px;"><ul id="menu"> <li><..."

The “center” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

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"... <td> <center> <a ..."

The element “img” with the attribute “usemap” must not appear as a descendant of the “a” element.

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"...qth.com/"><img src="qth-hosting-plans.png" alt="Web Hosting Plans from QTH.com" width="931" height="660" border="0" usemap="#hosting"> <ma..."

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"...php"> <area shape="rect" coords="14,176,291,285" href="http://hosting.qth.com/guarantee.php"> <..." Line: 71 Column: 5 - 94
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The “width” attribute on the “table” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

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"...Us</a>. <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..." Line: 198 Column: 3 - 50
"...Us</a>. <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..."

The “align” attribute on the “div” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

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The “align” attribute on the “td” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

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Element “table” not allowed as child of element “dl” in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

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"... <br /> <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..."

The “cellspacing” attribute on the “table” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

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"... <br /> <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..." Line: 146 Column: 3 - 50
"...Us</a>. <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..." Line: 171 Column: 3 - 50
"...Us</a>. <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..." Line: 198 Column: 3 - 50
"...Us</a>. <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..."

The “border” attribute on the “table” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

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"... <br /> <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..." Line: 146 Column: 3 - 50
"...Us</a>. <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..." Line: 171 Column: 3 - 50
"...Us</a>. <table border="0" cellspacing="20" width="100%"> <tr..." Line: 198 Column: 3 - 50
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The “valign” attribute on the “td” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

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The “width” attribute on the “td” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

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"...dl> </td> <td valign="top" width="160"> <sc..." Line: 175 Column: 6851 - 31
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".../dl> </td> <td valign="top" width="160"> &nbsp..."

Malformed byte sequence: “d8”.

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Element “dl” is missing a required instance of child element “dd”.

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Attribute “xmlns” is not serializable as XML 1.0.

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"...onal.dtd"> <html dir="ltr" xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head..."

The “name” attribute is obsolete. Consider putting an “id” attribute on the nearest container instead.

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"...> <body> <a name="top" id="top"></a> <..." Line: 100 Column: 5 - 24
"...br /> <H1><A NAME="customers">Featur..." Line: 117 Column: 7 - 18
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The “border” attribute is obsolete. Consider specifying “img { border: 0; }” in CSS instead.

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"...qth.com/"><img src="qth-hosting-plans.png" alt="Web Hosting Plans from QTH.com" width="931" height="660" border="0" usemap="#hosting"> <ma..."

The “language” attribute on the “script” element is obsolete. You can safely omit it.

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"...="center"><script language="JavaScript" src="https://swap.qth.com/remotescript.php?t=ra&c=KA9FOX&e=ka9fox@qth.com"></script..." Line: 94 Column: 24 - 130
"...="center"><script language="JavaScript" src="https://swap.qth.com/remotescript.php?t=qs&c=KA9FOX&e=ka9fox@qth.com"></script..."

This document appears to be written in English. Consider adding “lang="en"” (or variant) to the “html” start tag.

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