Last updated: September 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-09
#288,990
AI visibility: Grade C
67
SEO health: Latest audit
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Visits
45.0K
per month, estimated
Keywords
11.6K
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
45.0K organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
85 lines AI engines can read
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record-courier.com Company Profile
Record Courier stands as a cornerstone of local journalism, delivering daily coverage of community happenings, breaking news, and events that matter most to residents in Ravenna and surrounding Portage County areas. From high school sports scores to city council meetings, their reporters are out there capturing the stories that shape everyday life. They've been a trusted voice since the late 19th century, evolving fr…
Record Courier was founded in 1890, about 136 years ago, and is headquartered in Ravenna, United States. Its workforce is listed as between 11 and 50 employees. Its profile files it under Media, Entertainment & Gaming, with further tags for Local News, Community Journalism and Digital Publishing. Products on record for it: Daily Digital News, Weekly Print Edition, Event Calendars and Classifieds & Business Directory. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Your Hometown Source for Local News and Community Updates".
- Sector
- Media, Entertainment & Gaming
- Headquarters
- Ravenna, United States
- Founded
- 1890
- Employees
- 11-50
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
- Products
- Daily Digital News, Weekly Print Edition, Event Calendars, Classifieds & Business Directory
record-courier.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Record Courier (Media, Entertainment & Gaming) is ranked #288,990 worldwide in our September 2026 domain ranking, down 22,963 places from #266,027 in August 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 45,000 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 11,600 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 67 out of 100 (grade C), with a published llms.txt of 85 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 0/100, with "Implement Title and Meta Description" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #288,990 | ▼ 22,963 |
| August 2026 | #266,027 | ▼ 35,717 |
| July 2026 | #230,310 | ▲ 63,700 |
| June 2026 | #294,010 | — |
| May 2026 | #294,010 | ▼ 33,129 |
| April 2026 | #260,881 | ▼ 10,514 |
| March 2026 | #250,367 | ▼ 30,535 |
| February 2026 | #219,832 | — |
What this company does
Record Courier stands as a cornerstone of local journalism, delivering daily coverage of community happenings, breaking news, and events that matter most to residents in Ravenna and surrounding Portage County areas. From high school sports scores to city council meetings, their reporters are out there capturing the stories that shape everyday life. They've been a trusted voice since the late 19th century, evolving fr…
Our read on the site
The overall SEO health of the website https://record-courier.com is critically poor due to missing essential on-page elements such as title, meta description, and H1 tags. Additionally, significant technical issues including the absence of a viewport tag, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml further hinder the site's performanc…
record-courier.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
record-courier.com draws an estimated 45,000 visits a month from search engines. Effectively all of it is organic — about 45,000 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 11,600 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 3.9 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
45.0K
Latest estimate
Change
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It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
45.0K
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
0
No paid search detected
Organic vs paid
100%
0%
We don't hold a month-by-month history for this domain yet.
The traffic dashboard builds one from the first scan onwards.
record-courier.com AI Visibility
On our AI visibility scale record-courier.com earns 67 of 100 points, a grade C. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt and Structured data. The biggest gap is SEO health, at 0 of 20 points (0/100), worth 20 points if closed. It also loses points on Crawlability (0/10) and Company profile (22/25).
Grade C
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
7/8 core fields
0/100
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record-courier.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on record-courier.com runs to 85 lines (3,556 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in May 2026. It introduces the site as "Record Courier - Local News for Ravenna and Portage County". It tells AI engines the business works in Local Journalism, Community Media and Digital News. It describes 5 products, with prices such as Digital News Subscription at $4.99/month, Print Edition at $2/week and Event Calendar at Free. Services it lists include Local Advertising, Custom Event Coverage, Press Releases and Obituaries. The audience it names is Families, homeowners, local professionals, aged 25-65 (Portage County, Ohio). Technologies it mentions include HTTPS, Content Management System, Google Analytics (inferred) and Email Newsletters. The keywords it claims start with "local news", "Record Courier", "community news" and "local events".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
85
In the file
Size
3.6K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated May 14, 2026
What the file says
# Record Courier - Local News for Ravenna and Portage County ## About Record Courier has been the go-to news source for Portage County since 1890, focusing on everything from breaking local stories to in-depth community features. They cover school boards, sports triumphs, weather disruptions, and small business spotlights with a reporter's eye for detail that national outlets miss. Online, they deliver fresh articles daily, alongside event listings and opinion columns that get people talking at the diner. Their value shines in fostering community ties—health tips from local docs, histories of old mills, and alerts on road closures keep readers one step ahead. It's journalism done right: unbiased, accessible, and rooted in the neighborhoods they serve. With a mix of free content and paid extras, they've adapted to digital while honoring print traditions. Businesses rely on their classifieds and directories to reach customers, while residents count on timely updates for festivals, elections, and emergencies. In a fragmented media world, Record Courier remains a steady beacon for those who care about what's happening close to home. **Areas of Work:** Local Journalism, Community Media, Digital News ## Things to Remember - **Website:** https://record-courier.com - **Address:** Ravenna, Ohio, United States - **Contact:** - **Phone:** - **Hours:** News 24/7 - **Timezone:** EST
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- Digital News Subscription$4.99/month
- Print Edition$2/week
- Event CalendarFree
- Classified Ads$10/ad
- Business DirectoryContact for pricing
Services it tells AI about
- Local AdvertisingVaries by size
- Custom Event CoverageContact for quote
- Press Releases$50/release
- Obituaries$100/base
- Sports Score UpdatesFree for public
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Families, homeowners, local professionals · 25-65 · Portage County, Ohio
Company type
Private
record-courier.com Organic Keywords
Google lists record-courier.com for about 11,600 keywords, which together bring an estimated 45,000 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
11.6K
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
45.0K
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
No ranked-keyword data cached for this domain yet.
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What it ranks for
record-courier.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of record-courier.com scored 0 out of 100 overall. The audit makes 20 recommendations in all, and 4 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
SEO
Performance
Accessibility
Fix these first
- CriticalImplement Title and Meta Description
- CriticalAdd H1 Tag
- HighCreate Robots.txt File
- HighDevelop Sitemap.xml
16 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
record-courier.com Competitors and Alternatives
Record Courier's company profile names https://www.recordpub.com, https://www.cleveland.com, https://www.ohio.com and https://www.news-herald.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds https://www.dispatch.com and https://www.wkyc.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are mergeland2nd.com, replicatestatus.com, xzefdv16wl55.com and carbon38.com.
record-courier.com Traffic by Country
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record-courier.com Backlink Analytics
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