Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
| Parameter name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Website meta title | Internal Revenue Service | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 24. |
| Meta description | The IRS is the U.S. government agency responsible for tax collection and tax law enforcement. Contains downloadable forms, instructions, and agency publications. It also includes "The Digital Daily," an almost-humorous online newspaper. | 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 236 characters. |
| Load time | 1.6639 seconds on average | Load speed is a concern and should be improved if and when possible. |
| Alexa global | 1 013, as last updated | According to Alexa, the website is frequently visited and is very popular. |
| Quantcast global | 468 | Judging by Quantcast rating, we can assume the website in question is very well known. |
| Total links on homepage | We found 124 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
| Number of backlinks | Around 14 644 | If even half of these are high quality, it speaks volumes of the website's worth. |
| Page HTML size | 78.3KB | How do we put this... improvement is quite necessary. Load speed is a very important factor in so many ways! |
| Website server | Server appears to be online. The IP address for the server is 96.7.191.238. | We are happy to say that the hosting service is provided by a respected company. Physically, the server is located in Washington, District Of Columbia, United States. |
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.
| Parameter name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Relevant categories | Business Accounting Home Personal Finance Tax Preparation Society Law Legal Information Tax Regional North America United States Government Executive Branch Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service |
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 | 1040.com bankrate.com bloomberg.com en.wikipedia.org fafsa.ed.gov fool.com ftb.ca.gov healthcare.gov hrblock.com investopedia.com revenue.state.pa.us sec.gov ssa.gov treasury.gov turbotax.intuit.com usa.gov usps.com whitehouse.gov |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as irs.gov, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
| Also of interest | ttlc.intuit.com usa.gov my.adp.com studentloans.gov fafsa.ed.gov |
There is a good chance that the people interested in irs.gov find something of use on these websites, too. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly traffic | 24.88M | In the grand scheme of things, the website is not exactly a giant in terms of traffic. But the target audience should be taken into account, too. |
| Visitor delta | -12.48% | Lately, the website's been receiving less traffic. |
| Time spent on site | 4:24 | People are in no hurry to leave the website, great! |
| irs.gov Traffic Bounce Rate | 39.35% | A great result and shows that the content is of good enough depth and quality for most readers. |
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 294 867 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 |
|---|
HTTP/1.0 302 Found Location: http://www.irs.gov/ Server: BigIP Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Length: 0 HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently Content-Length: 0 Location: https://www.irs.gov/ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:50:33 GMT Connection: close Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000 HTTP/1.0 200 OK ETag: "c6ec21e5-feaf-4af6-9026-9a86aef9dc04" Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 88486 Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=F47F55A84F39A1D22E7937D4D9459E9C; Path=/; HttpOnly Cache-Control: no-cache Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:50:33 GMT Connection: close Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000 |
| WHOIS information |
|---|
% DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready Domain Name: IRS.GOV Status: ACTIVE >>> Last update of whois database: 2016-01-21T10:50:35Z <<< Please be advised that this whois server only contains information pertaining to the .GOV domain. For information for other domains please use the whois server at RS.INTERNIC.NET. |
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 1742 mistypes, associated with irs.gov:
If you are curious about what TLD extensions could also match the domain name of irs.gov well, we have prepared an extensive list for you to look through:
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