Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
| Parameter name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Website meta title | National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 53. |
| Meta description | USA. Federal agency, cooperating with industry to develop and apply technologies, measurements, and standards. | 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 110 characters. |
| Load time | 1.3628 seconds on average | Website load speed is pretty fast. |
| Alexa global | 7 068, as last updated | According to Alexa, the website is frequently visited and is very popular. |
| Quantcast global | 11 854 | Judging by Quantcast rating, we can assume the website in question is very well known. |
| Total links on homepage | We found 224 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
| Number of backlinks | Around 22 745 | If even half of these are high quality, it speaks volumes of the website's worth. |
| Page HTML size | 132.1KB | 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 54.204.24.254. | 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.
| Parameter name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Relevant categories | Computers Hardware Standards Computers Internet Organizations Standards Science Reference Standards Organizations Regional North America Science Organizations Regional North America United States Business Textiles and Nonwovens Associations Industrial Standards Regional North America United States Maryland Localities G Gaithersburg Business and Economy Regional North America United States Government Executive Branch Department of Commerce Technology Administration |
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 | ansi.org astm.org cdc.gov census.gov dot.gov en.wikipedia.org epa.gov fda.gov house.gov iso.org nationalacademies.org ncsli.org nsa.gov nsf.gov ntis.gov ornl.gov osha.gov |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as nist.gov, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
| Also of interest | cve.mitre.org nist.my.salesforce.com time.windows.com zeitserver.de spiedigitallibrary.org |
There is a good chance that the people interested in nist.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 | 5.40M | Suffice to say, the website is massively popular. |
| Visitor delta | +9.28% | The past month has seen growth in overall estimated traffic. |
| Time spent on site | 2:21 | This is a decent average time spent on a website. |
| nist.gov Traffic Bounce Rate | 62.09% | A decent amount of visitors seem to find valuable information on this website. |
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 6 583 258 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/1.1 200 OK Accept-Ranges: bytes Age: 37418 Cache-Control: public, max-age=43200 Content-Language: en Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 05:20:37 GMT ETag: W/"1509908216-0" Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 18:56:56 GMT Server: nginx Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000 Vary: Cookie,Accept-Encoding Via: 1.1 varnish-v4 X-AH-Environment: prod X-Cache: HIT X-Cache-Hits: 16 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Drupal-Cache: MISS X-Frame-Options: SameOrigin X-Generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org) X-Request-ID: v-18a79d82-c25b-11e7-90ec-22000a95b6c4 X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge,chrome=1 X-Varnish: 41161163 32124361 Content-Length: 135165 Connection: keep-alive |
| WHOIS information |
|---|
Domain Name: NIST.GOV Status: ACTIVE >>> Last update of whois database: 2017-05-09T10:21:37Z <<< 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 1743 mistypes, associated with nist.gov:
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