Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
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Website meta title | The British Library - The British Library | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 43. |
Meta description | Official depository of the United Kingdom and one the largest research institutions in the world. Maintains collections of primary and secondary resource materials dealing with most areas of intellectual inquiry. Locations in London and West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. | To make sure all the meta description is visible in search results page, Google recommends length of up to 320 characters at the most. This description has exactly 268 characters. |
Load time | 0.3592 seconds on average | Website load speed is pretty fast. |
Alexa global | 16 590, as last updated | The site is quite popular, according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth, though. |
Quantcast global | 15 450 | The site is well known, judging by QUANTCAST rank. |
Total links on homepage | We found 211 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
Number of backlinks | Around 15 866 | If even half of these are high quality, it speaks volumes of the website's worth. |
Page HTML size | 92.9KB | Load speed (and overall responsiveness) is such an important factor for both search engines and user experience, would you not agree? With that in mind, this is a very good result. |
Website server | Server appears to be online. The IP address for the server is 194.66.233.215. | It's unfortunate, but despite our best attempts, we failed to gather enough data to provide a meaningful insight at this time. |
What, all that information was not enough? You want... more? Right, then. You asked for it.
As we've mentioned before, traffic is not a key metric. However, the target audience does say a lot about what's been done to optimize the website, as well as what should be done going forwards. Let's see if we have any useful information here.
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Relevant categories | Reference Libraries Research Reference Libraries National Regional Europe United Kingdom England London Camden Arts and Entertainment Museums Regional Europe United Kingdom Government Culture, Media and Sport National Libraries |
The most obvious area of interest for the target audience are these categories. Most, if not all of them can be attributed to the website in question. |
Related websites | victorianweb.org nationalarchives.gov.uk poetryfoundation.org gradesaver.com bartleby.com |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as bl.uk, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
Absolute accuracy is accessible only by the webmasters. If you keep that in mind, perhaps you will find out approximate numbers of some use.
Where appropriate, we'll add an insight, but the numbers themselves speak clearly enough, eh?
Parameter name | Status | Comment |
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Time spent on site | 3:10 | People are in no hurry to leave the website, great! |
With over 4 million websites indexed (which can seem as a lot, or very little, depending on your point of view), Alexa is perhaps the oldest and certainly the best known ranking system, deservedly or not. The Alexa Global and Local ranks of a website are based on an approximate amount of visitors a given website receives. The more visitors, the higher the rank. The Alexa rank, be it Local or Global, should be taken with a pinch of salt. After all, visitor count is by far not the simple measure of a website's success it's made out to be. For example, a gardening website is never going to be as popular as a movie review website. It does not mean it's not popular within it's niche.
QUANTCAST - an advertising-related data processing company - mostly specializes in real-time audience analysis and measurements. In other words it, like Alexa, is basing its rankings on approximate traffic numbers. Currently, QUANTCAST has rated around 31 625 190 websites. Just like ALEXA, this is not a metric of huge importance, so don't base your SEO decisions on QUANTCAST rank, specifically. At best, it's a vague representation of how your website is doing in the grand scheme of things, but it does not take all that much context into account.
Similarly to how a hard drive or a modern SSD device holds your files, a server holds all the files the website needs to operate. To load a webpage, your browser needs to contact the said server and request files - strings of code that make up the website into what it is, including images, text and database entries. Each physical server has a unique IP address that is used by the browser to contact it.
Let's see what technical information we've managed to gather:
Header in detail |
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 08:21:16 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Expires: Wed, 10 May 2017 08:21:15 GMT X-UA-Compatible: IE=10 X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge,chrome=1 X-Cache-Status: HIT Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://www.bl.uk |
WHOIS information |
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Domain name: bl.uk Registrant: The British Library Registrant type: UK Government Body Registrant's address: Infrastructure Services Building 26 Boston Spa Wetherby West Yorks LS23 7BQ United Kingdom Data validation: Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 07-May-2014 Registrar: No registrar listed. This domain is registered directly with Nominet. Relevant dates: Registered on: before Aug-1996 Expiry date: 07-Nov-2017 Last updated: 09-Nov-2015 Registration status: Registered until expiry date. Name servers: dns2.bl.uk ns0.ulcc.ac.uk ns2.ja.net WHOIS lookup made at 08:04:03 07-Apr-2017 -- This WHOIS information is provided for free by Nominet UK the central registry for .uk domain names. This information and the .uk WHOIS are: Copyright Nominet UK 1996 - 2017. You may not access the .uk WHOIS or use any data from it except as permitted by the terms of use available in full at http://www.nominet.uk/whoisterms, which includes restrictions on: (A) use of the data for advertising, or its repackaging, recompilation, redistribution or reuse (B) obscuring, removing or hiding any or all of this notice and (C) exceeding query rate or volume limits. The data is provided on an 'as-is' basis and may lag behind the register. Access may be withdrawn or restricted at any time. |
A good domain address is usually one that is easy to spell, resulting in the smallest amount of mistypes possible. Still, such a thing inevitably happens. Here is a list with the most frequent 527 mistypes, associated with bl.uk:
If you are curious about what TLD extensions could also match the domain name of bl.uk well, we have prepared an extensive list for you to look through:
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