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The Independent | Latest news and features from US, UK and worldwide

Words count: 11 Unique Words: 10 Length: 68 characters
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Repeat Terms in the Title tag
Term	Repeat Count
and	2

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1. ideally, the title should contain 10 to 70 characters, including spaces. (Google displays up to 70 characters in the title, and takes into account only the first 12 words.)
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Description

Latest news, comment and features from The Independent US

Words count: 9 Length: 57 characters
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The description is too short!

Meta Descriptions provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages, that are commonly used by search engines on search result pages to display preview snippets for a given page.

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2. a readable, compelling description using important keywords can draw a much higher click-through rate of searchers to the given web page.
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Words count: 0 Length: 0 characters keyword phrases count : 0

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Meta keywords should not be ignored, though they are not a major ranking factor for most of search engines nowadays. A Meta keywords tag is supposed to be a brief and concise list of the most important themes of your page

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1. keep your list of keywords or keyword phrases down to 10 - 20 unique words or phrases.
2. separate the words or phrases using a comma (you do not need to leave a space between words separated by commas).
3. do not repeat words or phrases.
4. put your most important word or phrases at the beginning of your list.

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Top 20 Keywords

Total Terms Count: 1,335

It is nice! the word density is quite ok.

Top 20 terms occurance and density
Keyword	In Body	Density
rsquo	55	4.12%
lsquo	22	1.65%
trump	15	1.12%
election	9	0.67%
harris	8	0.60%
ndash	6	0.45%
year	6	0.45%
helene	5	0.37%
killed	5	0.37%
latest	4	0.30%
refresh	4	0.30%
logged	4	0.30%
debate	4	0.30%
memoir	4	0.30%
calls	4	0.30%
updates	4	0.30%
independent	3	0.22%
features	3	0.22%
rape	3	0.22%
electiontrump	3	0.22%

keyword density can be used as a factor in determining whether a web page is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase.

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2. overuse of keywords, a practice called keyword stuffing, will cause a web page to be penalized.

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Excellent! The page is using HTML headings (<H1> - <H6>) and inline emphasis tags (<EM><B><I><EM><STRONG>)

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The secret just got out Powerball winner declared rightful owner of $2 billion prize amid lawsuit Melania Trump’s publisher demanded $250,000 for interview about her memoir Anti-abortion activists turn on Melania Trump after memoir revelation Melania Trump addresses ‘I don’t care’ jacket scandal in new memoir – and blames media for ‘irresponsible’ coverage Someone really has been killing geese in Springfield, Ohio – but it wasn’t Haitian immigrants Bruce Springsteen endorses Harris, says Trump should be disqualified County clerk who pushed Trump’s lies sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars for election data scheme Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates Shaq appearance at Big Chicken restaurant leads to brawl between fans and cops ‘I’m committing a mass shooting’: Inside the upbringing that helped mold school shooting suspect FBI hunting ‘Bare Chested Bandit’ bank robber who changed disguises for every heist Dashcam records mom injecting ex-husband with fatal dose of poison Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data Dockworkers’ union suspends strike until 2025 to negotiate new contract School bus driver loses job for leaving student 4 miles from home after youngster fell asleep NYC gallery says $1m worth of art destroyed by water leak at CubeSmart storage facility Mystery behind 100,000 year-old ‘warrior pillars’ solved Powerful solar flare is headed towards Earth, NASA says Mark Cuban reveals $125k purchase he made after drunk call Tesla forced to issue fifth Cybertruck update within a year American killed by Israeli air raid in Lebanon, friends and family say A man killed a mountain lion with a shovel. He says it was to protect his dog Hairy legs and vintage cars: The spider lovers festival celebrating tarantula mating season School under fire for installing windows in gender-inclusive bathrooms so teachers and classmates can watch Kate’s conversation with teen who has weeks left to live revealed Google launches one of its ‘most significant updates’ to add more AI Alec Baldwin’s Rust set to premiere three years after Halyna Hutchins’ death – but he won’t be there Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour rejects Roger Waters reunion over support for ‘genocidal dictators’ Trump laughed at Sidney Powell conspiracy, compared to Star Trek: docs Rudy Giuliani allegedly sent a text begging Michigan to overturn 2020 election. But he got the wrong number ‘So what’: Trump’s alleged reaction when Mike Pence was in danger From liberal darling to phone calls with Trump: Mark Zuckerberg’s political transformation GOP hopeful sends debate off the rails when he says military needs ‘alpha’ recruits who will ‘eat their own guts’ JD Vance’s debate performance was ‘hated by hardcore MAGA social media,’ ex-Republican strategist says RFK Jr’s endorsement of Trump moved the needle more than Taylor Swift backing Harris, top pollster says Poll shows America’s millionaires back Harris over Trump — even the over-60s In Michigan, a QAnon-adjacent fired weatherman rebrands as a ‘moderate’ Republican Vance-Walz debate attracts 20 million fewer viewers than 2020 face-off between Harris and Pence Betting on the election will soon be legal in US after massive ruling Trump downplays severity of brain injuries suffered by 109 US soldiers Rudy Giuliani’s daughter says she ‘lost her dad’ to Trump and begs people to vote for Harris I was traveling with Kamala Harris as the Iran-Israel news broke. 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2. never duplicate the title tag content in the heading tags.
3. for more effective SEO, use only one <H1> tag per page

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The page text content is a bit too difficult to be read and understood!

Ensure your page content text can be read and understood by most of your site visitors. not too difficult nor too simple.

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1. a score below 30, indicates the text content is too difficult to be read and understood.
2. a sore above 80, may suggest that the site is lack of in-depth and expertise of its topics (low quality content).
3. an optimal reading level score shall be 50-70.

Language

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the detected language is : en

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Page Encoding

utf-8 Excellent! the website declared its character encoding.

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non-asii characters.

Favicon

Excellent! the website has a shortcut favicon image.

RSS

https://www.independent.co.uk/us/rss Excellent! the website has a RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed for quick publishing.

Robots.txt

Robots.txt is not presented for the site.

Robots.txt file can be used to regulate access of search engine crawlers, properly configured robots.txt file can help
crawlers to better understand your website.

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1. grand robots access to those pages you wish them to crawl.
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XML Sitemap

XML Sitemap is not presented for the site.
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Sitemap helps search engine crawler to identify your website pages.

Tips:
1. ensure all your important pages are listed in the sitemap.
2. ensure to indicate the frequency of change and importance of each url.
3. inform search engines of the location/URL of your sitemap (eg, For Google, you can set the website sitemap location through Google Webmaster management panel).

Loading Time

0.09 seconds - 669.02 Kb/s

Excellent! the site is pretty fast and it takes less than 1 second to load.

Estimated loading time for different internet connections
Modem (56Kbits/s)	Mobile/HSDPAM (7.2Mbits/s)	ADSL (8Mbits/s)	Cable (30Mbits/s)	Optical Fibre (100Mbits/s)
8.60 s	0.07 s	0.06 s	0.02 s	4.82 ms

Site speed is becoming an crucial ranking factor. Slow page loading is one of the biggest complains of web users. If the loading time is too long, you may need to check your server, network, or system codes and structure.

Tips:
1. ideal loading time is less than 1 seconds, if it take more than 5 seconds to load your site, likely users will run out of patience, so do search engines.
2. improve your SEO by optimizing your website to have a small size and faster responding server.

Total Size

60 Kb (60,212 bytes)

Excellent! the page size is just nice, that is within 30K-150K!

Page size affects the speed of your website.

Tips:
1. try to keep you page size between 30K-150K
2. put javascript and style sheet in separate files, and link them to the main page.
3. use optimized images for web and set up your server with gzip for downloading

Text To Code Ratio

Total Size	Text Size	HTML Code Size	Text/HTML Code Ratio
60 Kb (60,212 bytes)	12 Kb (12,032 bytes)	48 Kb (48,180 bytes)	24.97 %

Excellent! the text to html code ratio is just nice, that is within 15%-70%!

the ratio of text to HTML code should always be above 15% for good SEO gain,
it is below 15% then that means that your website probably needs more text content.

Tips:
1. a ratio between 25% and 70% is ideal, when it goes beyond than that, the page might run the risk of being considered as spam. As long as the content is relevant and gives essential information, it is a plus point to have more of it.
2. improve your SEO by adding more relevant text to your pages and also increasing your keyword density.

Flash

Excellent! No flash component is detected on this page.

Flash content can not be properly indexed by search engines, and normally flash file is large in size, which slow down the loading of your page.

Tips:
1. avoid flash content whenever possible if you wish to have a fast and SEO friendly website.

Frame

Excellent! No frame is detected on this page.

Framesets and individual frames could cause problem for search engine to crawl your pages

Tips:
1. avoid frames whenever possible.
2. search engines do not like frames.
3. use iframe instead if you really have no choice.

Inline CSS

1 Inline CSS components are detected on this page.

It is a good practice to move inline CSS rules into an external CSS file in order to make your page lighter and increasing the text to code ratio.

Tips:
1. move inline css rules to external css file.
2. separate style from html.

Nested Table

Excellent! No nested table is detected on this page (nested table : 0, total table : 0)

nested tables could slow down page rendering and lead to bad user experience.

Tips:
1. avoiding <table> for your page layout.
2. using <div> instead of <table>.

Plain Text Email

Excellent! No Plain Text Email is detected on this page.

Redirect Count

3 redirections were detected for loading this page.

Using HTTPS

Excellent! HTTPS is used for your page.

WWW Resolve

Excellent! the websites https://www.independent.co.uk/us and http://independent.co.uk are resolved to the same url :https://www.independent.co.uk/us

Search Engines treat URLs with or without "www" as two different records.

Tips:
1. edit your .htaccess file and permanently redirect one to the other (eg redirect www.mysite.com to mysite.com).

URL Rewrite

Non SEO Friendly URLs
http://independent.co.uk/login?regSourceMethod=login%20overlay
https://puzzles.independent.co...mpaign=navbar&utm_medium=nav&utm_source=navpuzzles
http://independent.co.uk/newsl...v&itm_audience=prospecting&itm_content=newsletters
http://independent.co.uk/regis...el=native&itm_campaign=footer&itm_content=register
http://independent.co.uk/newsl...r&itm_audience=prospecting&itm_content=newsletters
http://independent.co.uk/donat...footer&itm_audience=prospecting&itm_content=donate
http://independent.co.uk/subsc...g_page&itm_audience=prospecting&itm_content=footer

You may use url rewrite techniques to make these 7 urls to be SEO friendly.

clean, short and relevant URLs are favoured by users and search engines

Tips:
1. use url rewrite to turn dynamic pages with query parameters into seo friendly static pages.
2. put your important keywords in the url.
3. good urls are not only user friendly but also seo friendly.

Underscore In URL

URLs with underscore
https://puzzles.independent.co...dium=nav&utm_source=navpuzzles
http://independent.co.uk/newsl...ecting&itm_content=newsletters
http://independent.co.uk/regis...gn=footer&itm_content=register
http://independent.co.uk/newsl...ecting&itm_content=newsletters
http://independent.co.uk/donat...prospecting&itm_content=donate
http://independent.co.uk/subsc...prospecting&itm_content=footer

You have 6 Urls with underscore.

Search Engines treat hyphen as word separator, they do not treat underscore as word separator.

Tips:
1. use hyphen "-" instead of underscore "_" to optimize your page url.
2. help search engines to better understand your url, eventually will benefit your page`s ranking.

Links

Internal Links (link to pages within this domain)	External Links (link to pages on other websites)	Total
405	13	418

Too many links (418), it may be considered as spam!

Internal Links (link to pages within this domain) - 405
URL	Anchor Text
http://independent.co.uk/#main-content	Jump to content
https://www.independent.co.uk/	UK Edition
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia	Asia Edition
http://independent.co.uk/newsletters	Sign up to our newsletters
http://independent.co.uk/login...egSourceMethod=login%20overlay	Log in / Register
http://independent.co.uk/	Independent
http://independent.co.uk/topic/us-election-2024	US election
http://independent.co.uk/us	News
http://independent.co.uk/us	News
http://independent.co.uk/news/world/americas	US
http://independent.co.uk/topic/us-election-2024	US election 2024
http://independent.co.uk/news/uk	UK
http://independent.co.uk/news/world/europe	Europe
http://independent.co.uk/news/world	World
http://independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics	US Politics
http://independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics	UK Politics
http://independent.co.uk/news/health	Health
http://independent.co.uk/news/business	Business
http://independent.co.uk/news/science	Science
http://independent.co.uk/space	Space
http://independent.co.uk/tv/us-news	News Videos
http://independent.co.uk/sport	Sports
http://independent.co.uk/sport	Sports
http://independent.co.uk/sport/us-sport	US Sports
http://independent.co.uk/sport/football	Soccer
http://independent.co.uk/f1	Formula 1
http://independent.co.uk/sport/ufc	UFC
http://independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union	Rugby Union
http://independent.co.uk/sport/cricket	Cricket
http://independent.co.uk/sport/tennis	Tennis
http://independent.co.uk/sport/boxing	Boxing
http://independent.co.uk/sport/cycling	Cycling
http://independent.co.uk/sport/golf	Golf
http://independent.co.uk/tv/sport	Sports Videos
http://independent.co.uk/us/voices	Voices
http://independent.co.uk/us/voices	Voices
http://independent.co.uk/voices/editorials	Editorials
http://independent.co.uk/voices/letters	Letters
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment	Culture
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment	Culture
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films	Movies
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv	TV & Radio
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music	Music
http://independent.co.uk/games	Games
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books	Books
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art	Art
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography	Photography
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance	Theatre & Dance
http://independent.co.uk/tv/culture	Culture Videos
http://independent.co.uk/life-style	Lifestyle
http://independent.co.uk/life-style	Lifestyle
http://independent.co.uk/tech	Tech
http://independent.co.uk/money	Money
http://independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink	Food & Drink
http://independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion	Fashion
http://independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex	Love & Sex
http://independent.co.uk/life-style/women	Women
http://independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families	Health & Families
http://independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family	Royal Family
http://independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring	Motoring
http://independent.co.uk/life-...yle/motoring/electric-vehicles	Electric Vehicles
http://independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle	Lifestyle Videos
http://independent.co.uk/us/travel	Travel
http://independent.co.uk/us/travel	Travel
http://independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice	News & Advice
http://independent.co.uk/author/simon-calder	Simon Calder
http://independent.co.uk/travel/north-america/usa	USA
http://independent.co.uk/travel/uk	UK
http://independent.co.uk/travel/europe	Europe
http://independent.co.uk/travel/asia	Asia
http://independent.co.uk/travel/inspiration	Inspiration
http://independent.co.uk/travel/48-hours-in	City Guides
http://independent.co.uk/travel/sustainable-travel	Sustainable Travel
http://independent.co.uk/independentpremium	Premium
http://independent.co.uk/independentpremium	Premium
http://independent.co.uk/voices/editorials	Editorials
http://independent.co.uk/independentpremium/voices	Voices
http://independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads	Long Reads
http://independent.co.uk/indep...dentpremium/politics-explained	Politics Explained
http://independent.co.uk/independentpremium/news-analysis	News Analysis
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest	Best
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/house-garden	Home & Garden
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/gadgets-tech	Tech
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/fashion-beauty	Fashion & Beauty
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/food-drink	Food & Drink
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/kids	Kids
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/books	Books
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/travel-outdoors	Travel & Outdoors
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/outdoor-activity	Sports & Fitness
http://independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/deals	Deals
http://independent.co.uk/climate-change	Climate
http://independent.co.uk/climate-change/news	News
http://independent.co.uk/climate-change/climate-100	Climate 100
http://independent.co.uk/climate-change/opinion	Voices
http://independent.co.uk/climate-change/sustainable-living	Sustainable Living
http://independent.co.uk/climate-change/infact	Explained
http://independent.co.uk/tv/climate	Climate Videos
http://independent.co.uk/life-...yle/motoring/electric-vehicles	Electric vehicles
http://independent.co.uk/climate-change/sgi	SGI
http://independent.co.uk/tv/editors-picks	TV
...

External Links (link to pages on other websites) - 13
URL	Anchor Text
https://www.independentespanol.com/	Edición en Español
https://www.indy100.com/	Indy100
https://www.facebook.com/TheIndependentOnline
https://twitter.com/Independent
https://www.independentespanol.com/	Independent en Español
https://www.independentarabia.com/	Independent Arabia
https://www.indyturk.com/	Independent Turkish
https://www.independentpersian.com/	Independent Persian
https://www.independenturdu.com/	Independent Urdu
https://www.standard.co.uk/	Evening Standard
https://www.independentadvertising.com/	Independent Advertising
https://www.independentadverti...com/licensing-and-syndication/	Syndication
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-independent/jobs/	Working at The Independent

reasonable number of links (below 100) per page will give a better user experience.

Tips:
1. keep the number of links per page below 100.
2. having more than 100 links in a single page will lead to a bad user experience, and it possibly runs into the risk of been considered as spam.
3. search engines may not follow all the links if you have too many of them in a single page.

Images

Total Images	Alt Present	Alt Missing
104	92	12

12 images do not have Alt values.

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https://static.independent.co....?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp	Melania Trump providing Fox...
https://static.independent.co....?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp	Garth Brooks is accused of ...
https://static.independent.co....?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp	Three former Memphis police...
https://static.independent.co....?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp	Donald Trump speaks at a pr...
https://static.independent.co....?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp	Pro-Trump rioters storming ...
https://static.independent.co....?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp	RFK Jr. is now being accuse...
https://static.independent.co....?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp	President Joe Biden, right,...
https://static.independent.co....?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp	Robert Jarvis’s GMC truck i...
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CSS

Style Block In Same Page	Links to External Style Files	Total
1	0	1

You have 1 style blocks in the same file, try to put them in a separate file.

Links To External Stylesheet Files - 0
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Script

Scripts Block In Same Page	Links to External Script Files	Total
25	9	34

Too many (9) external scripts files , it will slow down the downlaoding.

Links To External Script Files - 9
Script URL	Type
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Link to Blog / News Release Page
http://independent.co.uk/newsletters	Sign up to our newsletters

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Google Analytics

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Google Page Rank

8 Excellent! the website has a high page rank (8/10).

0 - 1	2 - 3	4 - 10
8
Poor	Good	Excellent

Links From Root Domains

1,005
Excellent! You do have a lot of root domains (1,005) linked to your site independent.co.uk.

< 20	21 - 50	> 51
1,005
Poor	Good	Excellent

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Facebook Comments 665

Tweets 100

LinkedIn 0

Social Media Integration

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Facebook Page	https://www.facebook.com/TheIndependentOnline
Twitter Account	https://twitter.com/Independent
Google+ Page	Not Found

Trustworthiness

92

Excellent! the website has a good Trustworthiness Score (92/100).

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92
Very Poor	Poor	Unsatisfactory	Good	Excellent

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Child Safe

91 Excellent! the website has a good Child Safe Score (91/100).

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91
Very Poor	Poor	Unsatisfactory	Good	Excellent

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Traffic Rank

1,455^th most visited website in the world.
111^th most visited website in United Kingdom

your site has an excellent high traffic rank in the world.

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Server Location

your server (IP : 199.232.37.91) is located at United States

the most site visitors come from United Kingdom

your server is located in different place from where most of your site visitors come from.

HTTP Compression

No

your website server does not support HTTP Compression.

Caching

No

your website server does not support Caching.

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Domain Expires

2 years, 102 days from today ( expires on : 2027-02-02 )

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Domain Info

independent.co.uk ( 17 characters )

Domain Registrar : Nominet UK

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Domain Created On	Last Modified On	Expires On
unknown	2022-10-18	2027-02-02
unknown old	2 years, 4 days ago	2 years, 102 days from today

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DNS Name	IP Address
independent.co.uk	151.101.65.184

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