Website Review: pantagraph.com
Generated on November 03 2026 21:45 PM
The score is 71/100
SEO Content
Title
The Pantagraph | Breaking News | | Read Bloomington, IL and Illinois breaking news. Get latest news, events and information on Illinois sports, weather, entertainment and lifestyles.
Length : 182
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Description
Read breaking news from Bloomington, IL and Illinois. Get the latest on events, weather, sports, entertainment, and more.
Length : 121
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Keywords
bloomington, normal, local news, bloomington news, normal news, isu, u of i, sports, high school, blono, blades, thunder, redbirds, illinois state university, entertainment, restaurants, blono
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Og Meta Properties
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| Property | Content |
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| type | website |
| url | https://pantagraph.com/ |
| image | https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/pantagraph.com/content/tncms/custom/image/b32c1a3a-f6a7-11e5-b75e-6b57a5d92d3d.png?resize=600%2C315 |
| image:width | 600 |
| image:height | 315 |
| title | pantagraph.com | Read Bloomington, IL and Illinois breaking news. Get latest news, events and information on Illinois sports, weather, entertainment and lifestyles. |
| description | Read breaking news from Bloomington, IL and Illinois. Get the latest on events, weather, sports, entertainment, and more. |
| site_name | pantagraph.com |
Headings
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- [H2] Election 2026 Pritzker wins 3rd term in Illinois as presidential speculation builds
- [H3] Javascript is required to use this website.
- [H3] Breaking News
- [H3] Election 2026 Pritzker wins 3rd term in Illinois as presidential speculation builds
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- [H3] Communities mourn cheerleader killed in mass shooting near Illinois Wesleyan University
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- [H3] Latest Video
- [H3] Sports
- [H3] Community News
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- [H4] Communities mourn cheerleader killed in mass shooting near Illinois Wesleyan University
- [H4] Central Illinois neighbors: Obituaries for November 3
- [H4] 'Sunshine in human form': Campuses pay tribute to teen shot at Halloween party in Bloomington
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- [H4] Election 2026 From voter anger to a blue wave, three takeaways from the 2026 midterms
- [H4] Juliana Stratton wins U.S. Senate seat in Illinois
- [H4] Video: Patrick Cortesi, McLean County Democratic chair, reacts to election outcome
- [H4] Video: Crockett wins McLean County Clerk Post, pledges accountability and election reform
- [H4] November 3 recap: Central Illinois news you may have missed today
- [H4] Video: Bipartisan support, community spirit power local Clerk Campaign
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- [H4] Video: Patrick Cortesi, McLean County Democratic chair, reacts to election outcome
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- [H4] Video: Crockett wins McLean County Clerk Post, pledges accountability and election reform
- [H4] Video: Bipartisan support, community spirit power local Clerk Campaign
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- [H5] Topics
Images
We found 78 images on this web page.
1 image alt attributes were missing. Please add alt text to all images to help search engines better understand the content of your images.
Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 21%
Great, this page's ratio of text to HTML code is higher than 20, but lower than 25 percent.
Iframe
Not ideal - You have Iframes on the web page, this mean that content in an Iframe cannot be indexed.
SEO Links
URL Rewrite
Good. Your links look SEO friendly and are easy to crawl!
Underscores in the URLs
We have detected underscores in your URLs. It would be better to use hyphens to optimize your SEO.
In-page links
We found a total of 85 links including 1 link(s) to files
SEO Keywords
Keywords Consistency
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Usability
Url
Domain : pantagraph.com
Length : 14
Favicon
Great, your website has a favicon.
Language
Good. Your declared language is en.
Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
The page does not declare a charset. Add <meta charset='utf-8'> at the top of the page's <head> to declare the document's charset (our free meta tag generator includes it).
Email Privacy
Great no email address was found in plain text!
Deprecated HTML
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Speed Tips
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This website has an excessive amount of Javascript files (more than 6). |
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Mobile
Mobile Optimization
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Optimization
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
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Robots.txt
http://pantagraph.com/robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
Analytics
Great, your website uses an analytics script.
Google Analytics |
AI Search Readiness
AI Crawlers
AI search crawlers are allowed, so the site can be shown and cited in AI answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity).
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OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search | AI search |
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ChatGPT-User | ChatGPT (user requests) | AI search |
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Claude-SearchBot | Claude search | AI search |
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Claude-User | Claude (user requests) | AI search |
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PerplexityBot | Perplexity | AI search |
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GPTBot | OpenAI training | AI training |
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ClaudeBot | Anthropic training | AI training |
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Google-Extended | Google Gemini training | AI training |
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Applebot-Extended | Apple AI training | AI training |
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CCBot | Common Crawl | AI training |
Blocking AI training crawlers is a common choice and doesn't affect the score. Only the AI search crawlers count.
Structured Data
The homepage describes itself with schema.org structured data, which helps search engines and AI tools understand it: Organization
Canonical Tag
The homepage has a canonical tag, which tells search engines which URL is the main version of the page.
llms.txt
No llms.txt file. It's an emerging convention: a short Markdown summary of the site for AI tools. Optional, so it doesn't affect the score.
Security
HTTPS
The site loads over HTTPS, so connections are encrypted. Browsers and search engines expect this.
HSTS
The site sends a Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers always use HTTPS for it.
Security Headers
4 of 5 common security headers found. At least 2 are needed to pass.
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Domain Info
pantagraph.com was registered on 25 Apr 1995 with Tucows Domains Inc. and expires on 26 Apr 2027. It accepts email and has both SPF and DMARC records. The Wayback Machine first archived it in November 1996.
Registration
| Registrar | Tucows Domains Inc. |
| Registered | 25 Apr 1995 (31 years ago) |
| Expires | 26 Apr 2027 |
| Last changed | 30 Mar 2026 |
| Nameservers | dns1.tn-cloud.net, dns2.tn-cloud.net |
| DNSSEC | Not signed |
Hosting
| IPv4 address | 192.104.182.209, 192.104.182.109 |
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IPv6 support |
Email Security
Mail servers: mx0b-00292f01.pphosted.com, mx0a-00292f01.pphosted.com
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DMARC record (policy: none) |
Archive History
The Wayback Machine has snapshots of this site from 304 different months, from November 1996 to October 2026. View snapshots
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