Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
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Website meta title | Latest breaking news from Nigeria & world | TODAY.ng | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 52. |
Meta description | Latest news, opinion, and in-depth reporting from around Nigeria and worldwide. TODAY.ng is the daily newspaper of the Internet. | 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 128 characters. |
Keywords | Nigeria News, Nigerian Politics, Nigerian Economy, Development, Nigeria Information, Breaking News, Nigerian Newspaper, Nigeria Online, Africa, Africa News, African Newspaper, African Development, Nigerian Information, Nigerian Elections, Nigerian Elections, Political Parties, Nigerian Elections, PDP, APC, APGA, Abuja, Lagos, Nigeria Corruption, Nigeria Oil, Nigerian Petroleum, Boko Haram, Terrorists, Nigerian President, Nigerian Legislators, National Assembly, Anambra, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, Abia, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Aba, Abakaliki, Abeokuta, Abuja, Agege, Akure, Asaba, Awka, Bauchi, Benin City, Birnin Kebbi, Calabar, Dutse, Eket, Enugu, Gombe, Gusau, Ibadan, Ife, Ikeja, Ikot-Abasi, Ikot Ekpene, Ikoyi, Ilorin, Iragbiji, Jalingo, Jimeta, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Karu, Kumariya, Lafia, Lagos, Lokoja, Maiduguri, Makurdi, Minna, Nsukka, Ogbomoso, Onitsha, Okene, Ogaminana, Oron, Oshogbo, Owerri, Owo, Orlu, Oyo, Port Harcourt, Potiskum, Sokoto, Suleja, Umuahia, Uyo, Warri, Wukari, Yenagoa, Yola, Zaria, Politics, Business, News, Buhari, Jonathan, Breaking, Flashing, Nigeria Newspapers, Nigeria Newsdesk | We did not expect meta keywords to be used. It's a worrying sign more than anything, really, as websites with meta keywords often tend to be spammy. |
Load time | 10.0788 seconds on average | Load speed is a concern and should be improved if and when possible. |
Alexa global | 89 761, as last updated | The site is quite popular, according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth, though. |
Total links on homepage | We found 217 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
Number of backlinks | Around 582 | Such a decent amount of backlinks certainly ads to the ranking. |
Page HTML size | 119.5KB | 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 158.69.241.176. | 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 |
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Relevant categories | Regional Africa Nigeria News and Media |
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 | premiumtimesng.com dailypost.ng thisdaylive.com guardian.ng vanguardngr.com |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as today.ng, 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 | 3:21 | 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.
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 Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 14:09:26 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.38 Link: <https://www.today.ng/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://www.today.ng/>; rel=shortlink Last-Modified: Wed, 10 May 2017 14:09:33 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-Control: max-age=0 Expires: Wed, 10 May 2017 14:09:26 GMT Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
WHOIS information |
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Domain Name: today.ng Domain ID: 208568-NIRA WHOIS Server: whois.nic.net.ng Referral URL: Updated Date: 2017-04-03T22:11:08.49Z Creation Date: 2014-04-10T08:10:58.751Z Registry Expiry Date: 2021-04-10T08:10:58.839Z Sponsoring Registrar: Upperlink Limited Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1749 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registrant ID: 304301-NIRA Registrant Name: Ediong Umoh Registrant Organization: TODAY Digital Limited Registrant Street: 15 Kent Avenue Registrant City: IK Registrant State/Province: AK Registrant Postal Code: 530001 Registrant Country: NG Registrant Phone: +234.8021857775 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Email: Admin ID: 845655-NIRA Admin Name: Ediong Umoh Admin Organization: TODAY Digital Limited Admin Street: 15 Kent Avenue Admin City: IK Admin State/Province: AK Admin Postal Code: 530001 Admin Country: NG Admin Phone: +234.8021857775 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Email: Billing ID: 845657-NIRA Billing Name: Ediong Umoh Billing Organization: TODAY Digital Limited Billing Street: 15 Kent Avenue Billing City: IK Billing State/Province: AK Billing Postal Code: 530001 Billing Country: NG Billing Phone: +234.8021857775 Billing Phone Ext: Billing Email: Tech ID: 845656-NIRA Tech Name: Ediong Umoh Tech Organization: TODAY Digital Limited Tech Street: 15 Kent Avenue Tech City: IK Tech State/Province: AK Tech Postal Code: 530001 Tech Country: NG Tech Email: Name Server: one.today.ng Name Server: two.today.ng DNSSEC: unsigned Additional Section Sponsoring Registrar URL: https://www.upperlink.ng Sponsoring Registrar Address: ASSBIFI House (2nd Floor), ASSBIFI Road, Alausa CBD, Ikeja, Lagos. Sponsoring Registrar Country: NG Sponsoring Registrar Phone: +234.17929196 Sponsoring Registrar Customer Service Contact: Wale Omoniyi Sponsoring Registrar Customer Service Email: Sponsoring Registrar Admin Contact: Ireti Chukwujama Sponsoring Registrar Admin Email: >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-04-08T18:27:28.493Z <<< TERMS OF USE: You are not authorized to access or query our Whois database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and automated. Whois database is provided by NIRA as a service to the internet community. The data is for information purposes only. NIRA does not guarantee its accuracy. By submitting a Whois query, you agree to abide by the following terms of use: You agree that you may use this Data only for lawful purposes and that under no circumstances will you use this Data to: (1) Allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail, telephone, or facsimile; or (2) Enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply to NIRA or NIRA Accredited Registrars and their computer systems. The compilation, repackaging, dissemination or other use of this Data is expressly prohibited. |
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