Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
Parameter name | Status | Comment |
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Website meta title | Western Cape Government | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 23. |
Meta description | Government service aimed primarily at citizens of the Western Cape, providing information on local, provincial and national government. | 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 135 characters. |
Load time | 6.7529 seconds on average | Load speed is a concern and should be improved if and when possible. |
Alexa global | 37 948, as last updated | The site is quite popular, according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth, though. |
Quantcast global | 98 792 | The site is well known, judging by QUANTCAST rank. |
Total links on homepage | We found 130 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
Number of backlinks | Around 518 | Such a decent amount of backlinks certainly ads to the ranking. |
Page HTML size | 61.2KB | 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 164.151.5.17. | 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 South Africa Western Cape |
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 | capetown.gov.za www.gov.za education.gov.za blaauwberg.net dha.gov.za |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as westerncape.gov.za, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
Now this is rather important. With viruses and malware so dominant these days, website safety is among the key ratings. It's importance is such that a website marked as unsafe is more than likely not to rank at all, let alone on the first page. Now, some sources are more reliable than others, but we'll try to present you with all the information we've managed to gather, along with some relevant commentary.
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 | 3:11 | 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 13 042 616 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/1.1 200 OK X-Drupal-Cache: MISS Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: public, max-age=1800 Content-Language: en Link: <https://www.westerncape.gov.za/>; rel="canonical",<https://www.westerncape.gov.za/>; rel="shortlink" ETag: "1494497123-0-gzip" Last-Modified: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:05:23 GMT Vary: Cookie,Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:28:16 GMT X-Varnish: 1779743211 1779664944 X-Cache: HIT X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload Age: 1628 X-Cache: HIT from ipxs1.pgwc.gov.za Transfer-Encoding: chunked Via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 ipxs1.pgwc.gov.za (squid/3.5.22) Connection: keep-alive |
WHOIS information |
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1a. Domain Name : westerncape.gov.za 1b. Select One : Update Existing Domain name 2a. Department Name : PGWC 2b. Postal Address : 4 Dorp Street,Cape Town, 2c. Postal Code : 8000 3a. Admin Contact Name : Manasse, Joel 3b. Title\Position : Director 3c. Department : PGWC 3d. Telephone : 021 483 3659 3e. Fax : 021 483 3425 3f. Postal Address : PO Box 659,Cape Town, 3g. Postal Code : 8000 3h. Cell Phone : 0832802388 3i. Email : 4a. Tech Contact Name : S White 4b. Title\Position : Mr 4c. Department : SITA (Pty) Ltd 4d. Telephone : 0214428582 4e. Fax : 0214428616 4f. Postal Address : PO Box 13648,Mowbray, 4g. Postal Code : 7705 4h. Cell Phone : 0791046438 4i. Email : 5a. Primary NS : ns1.pgwc.gov.za 5b. Primary NS IP : 164.151.4.18 5c. Secondary NS : ns2.pgwc.gov.za 5d. Secondary NS IP : 164.151.4.19 6a. Primary MX name : mailgatectn01.sita.co.za 6b. Primary MX IP : 196.36.153.11 7a. Place : Cape Town 7b. Date : 2011/08/17 7c. Name of Applicant : Manasse, Joel |
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 1818 mistypes, associated with westerncape.gov.za:
If you are curious about what TLD extensions could also match the domain name of westerncape.gov.za well, we have prepared an extensive list for you to look through:
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