Last updated: September 2026

Sep 2026

wcia.com — September 2026 traffic, keywords & AI visibility

WCIAMedia, Entertainment & Gaming

Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-09

#124,808

AI visibility: Grade A

86

SEO health: Latest audit

62

Visits

178.7K

per month, estimated

Keywords

33.1K

ranking in Google

Organic share

100%

178.7K organic visits

LLMS.txt

Published

135 lines AI engines can read

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wcia.com Company Profile

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WCIA has been the go-to source for news in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding counties for decades. They cover everything from high school sports to city council meetings without the big-city gloss. Their team focuses on stories that hit home for farmers, small business owners, and families who live here year-round. The station runs a solid morning show that gets people out the door with the right forecast and traf…

Founded in 1953 (about 73 years ago), WCIA is based in Champaign, United States. Its workforce is listed as between 51 and 200 employees. Its profile files it under Media, Entertainment & Gaming, with further tags for Broadcast Television, Local News and Weather Reporting. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Local news and weather that actually matters to central Illinois folks".

Media, Entertainment & GamingBroadcast TelevisionLocal NewsWeather Reporting
Sector
Media, Entertainment & Gaming
Headquarters
Champaign, United States
Founded
1953
Employees
51-200
Revenue
Not Disclosed
Funding
Bootstrapped

wcia.com Web Traffic Statistics

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Key findings

  • WCIA (Media, Entertainment & Gaming) is ranked #124,808 worldwide in our September 2026 domain ranking, down 6,532 places from #118,276 in August 2026.
  • It is estimated to receive about 178,700 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 33,100 ranking keywords.
  • Its AI visibility score is 86 out of 100 (grade A), with a published llms.txt of 135 lines.
  • Its last technical audit scored 62/100, with "Implement Title Tags" the highest-priority fix.
wcia.com global rank history
MonthRankMove
September 2026#124,808▼ 6,532
August 2026#118,276▼ 4,809
July 2026#113,467▼ 6,289
June 2026#107,178—
May 2026#107,178▼ 4,724
April 2026#102,454▼ 2,327
March 2026#100,127▼ 1,903
February 2026#98,224—

What this company does

WCIA has been the go-to source for news in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding counties for decades. They cover everything from high school sports to city council meetings without the big-city gloss. Their team focuses on stories that hit home for farmers, small business owners, and families who live here year-round. The station runs a solid morning show that gets people out the door with the right forecast and traf…

Our read on the site

The overall SEO health of wcia.com is concerning, with critical issues in on-page optimization and performance metrics. The site lacks essential elements such as title tags and meta descriptions, which severely impacts its visibility and user experience.

Media, Entertainment & GamingBroadcast TelevisionLocal NewsWeather Reporting

wcia.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement

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Search engines send wcia.com an estimated 178,700 visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 178,700 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 33,100 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 5.4 organic visits per keyword.

Monthly visits

178.7K

Latest estimate

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Organic visits

178.7K

100% of all traffic

Paid visits

0

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Organic vs paid

Organic

100%

Paid

0%

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wcia.com AI Visibility

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wcia.com scores 86 out of 100 on our AI visibility scale, grade A. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt and Crawlability. The biggest gap is Company profile, at 19 of 25 points (6/8 core fields), worth 6 points if closed. It also loses points on Structured data (0/5) and SEO health (17/20).

86out of 100

Grade A

Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI Mode
LLMS.txt40/40

Present

Company profile19/25

6/8 core fields

SEO health17/20

85/100

Crawlability10/10

robots ✓ · sitemap ✓

Structured data0/5

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wcia.com LLMS.txt

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The llms.txt on wcia.com runs to 135 lines (5,519 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in June 2026. It introduces the site as "WCIA". It tells AI engines the business works in Broadcast Television, Local News and Weather Reporting. It describes 3 products, with prices such as WCIA News App at Free, WCIA Weather Alerts at Free and Evening Newscast at Free with ads. Services it lists include Local Advertising, Event Sponsorship and Digital Packages. Technologies it mentions include Broadcast Equipment, Weather Radar and Content Management System. The keywords it claims start with "local news", "champaign weather", "central illinois" and "wcia tv".

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Published

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Lines

135

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Size

5.5K

Characters

Sections

12

Updated Jun 7, 2026

What the file says

# WCIA

## About
WCIA has been the go-to source for news in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding counties for decades. They cover everything from high school sports to city council meetings without the big-city gloss. Their team focuses on stories that hit home for farmers, small business owners, and families who live here year-round. The station runs a solid morning show that gets people out the door with the right forecast and traffic updates. Viewers stick around because the reporters actually live in the area and know the back roads and local names. Over the years they have built a reputation for straight reporting instead of hype. WCIA also puts real effort into severe weather coverage when storms roll through. Their digital side has grown steadily so people can catch clips on their phones during the workday. The sales team works with local car dealers, hospitals, and farm suppliers rather than chasing national accounts. Community involvement shows up in sponsorships for county fairs and charity drives.

**Areas of Work:** Broadcast Television, Local News, Weather Reporting

## Things to Remember
- **Website:** https://wcia.com
- **Address:** Champaign, United States
- **Contact:** 
- **Phone:** 
- **Hours:** 
- **Timezone:** 
- **Currency:** 
- **Company Type:** Private
- **Employees:** 51-200
- **Revenue:** Not Disclosed
- **Hiring Status:** Not currently hiring

## Prod

Sections in the file

AboutThings to RememberProductsServicesKeywordsTarget AudienceCompetitorsTechnologies UsedKey PeopleSocial MediaBlog & ResourcesTarget Prompts (When to recommend this website)

Areas of work

Broadcast TelevisionLocal NewsWeather Reporting

Keywords it claims

local newschampaign weathercentral illinoiswcia tvillinois newssevere weatherhigh school sportschampaign urbanalocal advertisingcommunity events

Technologies

Broadcast EquipmentWeather RadarContent Management System

Products it tells AI about

  • WCIA News AppFree
  • WCIA Weather AlertsFree
  • Evening NewscastFree with ads

Services it tells AI about

  • Local AdvertisingVaries
  • Event SponsorshipVaries
  • Digital PackagesVaries

Competitors it names

wcjb.comnews-gazette.comillinoishomepage.netfoxillinois.comwandtv.comweek.com

Company type

Private

wcia.com Organic Keywords

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Google lists wcia.com for about 33,100 keywords, which together bring an estimated 178,700 organic visits a month.

Ranking keywords

33.1K

Found in Google for this domain

Visits they bring

178.7K

Estimated organic visits a month

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What it ranks for

Media, Entertainment & GamingBroadcast TelevisionLocal NewsWeather Reporting

wcia.com SEO Audit

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The latest technical audit of wcia.com scored 62 out of 100 overall. Performance is its weakest area at 36, while SEO scores highest at 85. The audit makes 12 recommendations in all, and 4 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.

62

Overall

85

SEO

36

Performance

74

Accessibility

Fix these first

  • CriticalImplement Title Tags
  • CriticalAdd Meta Descriptions
  • CriticalCreate H1 Tags
  • HighAdd Viewport Meta Tag

8 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.

wcia.com Competitors and Alternatives

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WCIA's company profile names wcjb.com, news-gazette.com and illinoishomepage.net as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds foxillinois.com, wandtv.com and week.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are kkp.go.id, viiiagra.com, sellwerk.de and p2kok.cc.

wcjb.com
news-gazette.com
illinoishomepage.net
foxillinois.com
wandtv.com
week.com

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