Ontpresscom general updates aims to apprise the users of the latest happenings in the financial and health sectors through well-written news articles.
The site is quite good at keeping its promise that its mission is to provide in-depth and easy-to-understand informative stories on major financial issues.
But the site also raises grave ethical and security questions.
Read this Innocams blog post. I’ll discuss this site so you can decide if you should or shouldn’t make it a point to frequent it for the latest financial insights and news.
OntpressCom: The First Look
At first glance, Ontpress.com is a user-friendly site with a healthy dose of informative stories on finance, investment and health.
In this section, I’ll tell you about its interface, section division and navigability.
The Interface of Ontpress
This site has an uncluttered user-friendly interface. All major sections can be easily accessed from the homepage with a single click.
You will find the general updates on the homepage as well as a separate section dedicated to general news.
Top and most-popular stories are given, along with complementary images, on the homepage and are repeated in the General section.
A search box, a mortgage calculator and most-recent stories are given on the right panel.
At the bottom of the page, another search box, the company’s mission statement, links to major sections, privacy policy, terms and conditions and contact information is provided.
The Sections on Ontpress
The developers of this site divide Ontpresscom general updates into four major sections. They are: Finance, Investing, Loans and Health.
You can access the sections from links at the bottom of the homepage.
Each section has multiple pages containing relevant stories with high-resolution complementary images. True to its declared goal, most stories on this site centre on topics either directly or indirectly related to finance.
The Health section, however, has a few stories that don’t conform to the site’s declared goal, notwithstanding, they are well-written.
The Navigability of Ontpress
The navigability of this site is a mixed bag of complexity and ease.
You can access almost all major general updates from the homepage, but links to the main sections, oddly, have been given at the bottom of the homepage, which detracts a lot from the navigability of the site.
The developers of this site utilise breadcrumbs for navigational ease which is a standard SEO practice now that makes a site’s navigation easy and user-friendly.
All major updated general stories have text links and a blurb for easy access and comprehension. The use of blurbs will help you to get the general idea of each story so you can select your picks and go to the stories straightaway.
Ontpress: Story Analysis
There are plenty of high-quality stories on this site. Here is an overview of what you will get on this site.
Ontpress: Story Quantity
If you want a site that is packed with informative stories on finance, investment, loans and health, you will love Ontpress.com.
Every page of this site contains in-depth and well-focused stories that deal with specific topics as well as updated general news stories.
It is evident from the quantity of the stories on this site that its developers regularly review and update their pages to better their user experience.
No updated stories on this site are more than two days old. New stories are blown up on the homepage and the related sections while old stories are stockpiled in the related sections. A standard and logical practice for sites like this.
Ontpress: Story Quality
Ontpresscom general updates contain stories that are of high standard and resonate well with the declared mission statement of the site’s management.
The Sourcing Information
Almost all stories on Ontpress are byline stories. It means two things: one, they are special stories not incidents and two they are human written not AI generated.
The byline and dateline assure the reader of the legitimate sources of the stories on this site.
Besides, the writers of almost all the stories on this site clarify their sources through external links to authority sites.
A chronic disease many sites of this type suffer from is that they never provide the sourcing info. This practice makes a reader immediately suspicious of the legitimacy and quality of the stories.
Whenever a reader reads something, the first question they ask themselves is who is the writer (or, reporter) and how he knew about it. A clear source of information assures them that the story is legit.
Ontpress.com doesn’t suffer from this deadly disease and by clarifying the sources, gives an authentic ring to its stories.
The Structure of Stories
Most stories on Ontpress are long-form in-depth stories. The writers know their job and bombard the story on different fronts to establish their points.
Each story in Ontpresscom general updates section starts with an intro. The body is divided into several paragraphs with subheadings. The main points are clarified in the intro but, rightly, without any spoilers and the rest of the story logically and coherently establishes those points.
The conclusion recapitulates the main points and gives a call to action–direct or indirect.
Stories are accompanied by relevant high-resolution photos to break the monotony and improve the visual appeal.
Language and Writing Style
Ontpress writers are professionals. They use simple everyday language and diction and an easy writing style.
They know the subject they deal with inside out and so don’t have to hide their paucity of knowledge behind bombastic words and complex language and figures of speech.
Clever use of different voices and structure, absence of complex rhetoric, variation in sentence lengths and a smooth straightforward writing style provide all stories on this site with high readability scores.
Finance is a highly technical subject. But writers of this site are expert and experienced enough to render technical terms to easy-to-understand words and phrases.
Ontpress: Drawbacks and Security Issues
General updates and other stories on this site are of high quality and high value. They are well focused and well-written. But Ontpress.com is not entirely blemishless. It has many flaws in its content and content policies. There is also a grave security-related concern about the legitimacy of the site.
In this section I’ll apprise you of these drawbacks. Some major of them are discussed below:
Long Page Loading Time
Ontpresscom general updates take too long to load. Every page on this site has this annoying quality that detracts a lot from its user experience.
Images also take too long to load on this site in several stories.
This long loading time may irritate many potential visitors away from this otherwise great site. One of the major concerns of site owners is how to make pages of their sites load fast for better user experience and here Ontpress fares pathetically.
Amateurish Content Presentation
Though the stories themselves on ontpress.com are outstanding, their presentation is not always very professional.
For example, there are many stories with both image and text links whereas several stories have only text links.
This erratic content presentation also may not go down well with many users.
No Links at the Top
When this blog post went public, Ontpress didn’t have any links to its sections at the top of the homepage.
For that matter, you need to scroll down at the bottom of the page. This is unusual to say the least. I can’t remember when last I had seen such an user-unfriendly page design.
This phenomenon will certainly try many users’ patience and I’m afraid, several of them may leave the site, never to go back to it again.
Too Many Thanks
Ontpress thanks its sponsors and partners at least three times on the homepage with external image links.
This is certainly a bad practice and spoils the navigation sport greatly.
Mentioning your sponsors and partners isn’t prohibited on the homepage, but punctuating the homepage content three times with it, is overkill.
These types of links are usually given at the bottom of the homepage so the readers aren’t distracted.
Grave Security Issue
According to Zoominfo, a reputed business directory, ontpress.com is the website of the Ontario Press Council with headquarters in Ontario, Canada.
But Ontpress.com says that its location is in West Virginia in the US. This creates great confusion about the legitimacy of this company. Who owns this site?
To intensify the security concern further, a Wikipedia article confirms the Zoominfo listing and says that the Ontario Press Council was headquartered in Ontario but it no longer exists.
This confusing genealogy and pedigree will certainly cause a deep concern about the authenticity of this site in the minds of security-conscious users.
Chances are this is a perfectly legitimate site, but the site owner (s) should certainly clarify this point in the About Us section.
Unethical Business Policy
Ontpresscom general updates has a story in the Latest Trends subsection that tells its readers how to buy thousands of likes on social media sites.
Written by Mr Ben Austin, this story gives an external link to a site that sells TikTok followers to anyone for his profile on the social media platform.
The price range is from 4.99 USD to 99.99 USD for 100 and 10,000 TikTok followers respectively.
The problem is, most search engines, Google especially, penalise anyone buying or selling followers, likes, comments, reviews and links for better search visibility.
This is an out and out unethical and prohibited business policy.
Another story regarding depression in pet dogs written by Ms Maria Silvestri gives an external link that will redirect the readers to an online pharmaceutical shopping site.
Directing a reader to the seller of a medicine is never the job of a feature writer. Any site that has this kind of links is a suspect and Ontpress.com has them in abundance.
Either the management of this site aren’t aware of the dangers of inserting such links or they do it intentionally. Unfortunately, a reader has no way to find out which.
Conclusion
Ontpresscom general updates are newsworthy, nicely-written and highly informative. The content on this site, Ontpress.com, is certainly of high quality and readability.
The writers of Ontpress are professionals and know how to make their stuff stand out. The pages on this site are visually appealing too due to the use of images that perfectly complement the stories they accompany.
However, Ontpress also implements some highly unethical business policies like inserting sponsored links in stories. The site also sparks security concerns due to unclear ownership and location information.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. What is Ontpress.com?
Ans: It is a site that provides updated feature stories on finance and health.
Q2. Are Ontpresscom general updates good?
Ans: Yes, the general update stories are well-written and of high quality.
Q3. Who owns Ontpress?
Ans: It is unclear: the site doesn’t provide any information on this.
Q4. What is the location of Ontpress?
Ans: The site doesn’t divulge this information.
