Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
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Website meta title | The Scottish Sun | The Best for News, Scottish Sport, SPL football news, showbiz gossip and Scottish TV | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 103. |
Meta description | A description has not been provided for this site. | 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 50 characters. |
Load time | 0.3558 seconds on average | Website load speed is pretty fast. |
Alexa global | 52 249, as last updated | The site is quite popular, according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth, though. |
Quantcast global | 83 705 | The site is well known, judging by QUANTCAST rank. |
Total links on homepage | We found 1 004 links | Honestly, this is a strange amount of links for a homepage. |
Number of backlinks | Around 8 | Backlinks is one of the key metrics for search engines. This website seems to have a very low number of backlinks, which means poorer rank in search results. |
Page HTML size | 573.9KB | 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 72.165.185.17. | It's unfortunate, but despite our best attempts, we failed to gather enough data to provide a meaningful insight at this time. |
Domain overview | Registered on 2004-08-15 00:00:00 | It's unfortunate, but despite our best attempts, we failed to gather enough data to provide a meaningful insight at this time. At this time, domain thescottishsun.co.uk is registered at Corporation Service Company (UK) Limited |
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 |
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Relevant categories | News and Media > Newspapers Sports > Soccer Finance > Investing Gambling > Sports |
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. |
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These are the websites that fall into the same category as thescottishsun.co.uk, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
Also of interest | tiguanforums.co.uk dailyrecord.co.uk shareprices.com forum.rangersmedia.co.uk rangers.co.uk |
There is a good chance that the people interested in thescottishsun.co.uk 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?
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Monthly traffic | 1.84M | Suffice to say, the website is massively popular. |
Visitor delta | +13.59% | The past month has seen growth in overall estimated traffic. |
Time spent on site | 2:33 | This is a decent average time spent on a website. |
thescottishsun.co.uk Traffic Bounce Rate | 61.33% | 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 317 599 199 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:
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HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 14:22:33 GMT Server: Apache Cache-Control: max-age=5 X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Location: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/ Content-Length: 216 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-ws: solcda14a Location: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/ Content-Length: 257 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Cache-Control: max-age=231 Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 14:22:33 GMT Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Last-Modified: Sun, 08 May 2016 14:22:02 GMT X-TPVer: original Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 x-cachemod-origttl: max-age=3600 x-client-ttl: 50 X-Varnish: 884196982 884196450 x-cachemod-currenttl: 3568.759s hashkey: /_TP_/scotsol/homepage/:sol.scotsol objttl: X-origcc: max-age=50 X-origd: Sun, 08 May 2016 14:22:34 GMT X-ws: docache6,solcda43a X-Set-Cookie: sol_acc_3282=3282; max-age=900; Path=/scotsol/homepage/ Expires: Sun, 08 May 2016 14:22:34 GMT Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store Pragma: no-cache Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 14:22:34 GMT Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Connection: Transfer-Encoding Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=CF27DD0F1810350C4B16B08395C80AB0; Path=/scotsol Set-Cookie: sol_acc_3282=3282; max-age=900; Path=/scotsol/homepage/ Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=CF27DD0F1810350C4B16B08395C80AB0; Path=/scotsol |
WHOIS information |
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Domain name: thescottishsun.co.uk Registrant: News Group Newspapers Limited Registrant type: UK Limited Company, (Company number: 679215) Registrant's address: 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF United Kingdom Data validation: Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 29-Oct-2015 Registrar: Corporation Service Company (UK) Limited [Tag = CSC-CORP-DOMAINS] URL: http://www.cscprotectsbrands.com Relevant dates: Registered on: 15-Aug-2004 Expiry date: 15-Aug-2016 Last updated: 02-Nov-2015 Registration status: Registered until expiry date. Name servers: ns0.newsint.co.uk 143.252.80.3 ns1.newsint.co.uk 143.252.80.205 WHOIS lookup made at 15:22:38 08-May-2016 -- 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 - 2016. 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. |
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