Site Performance and Stats
In Detail

Website Performance – The Geeky Part

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Website load speed analysis

• The homepage takes approximately 1.0986 seconds to load. 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.
• The HTML of the website weighs in at around 390.5 kilobytes. We don't think 390.5 KBs is something to worry about.
• There are at least 76 images on the homepage of this website. This seems an ok number of images to have on the homepage.
• We've counted at least 127 server requests before the homepage was fully loaded. Oh my, this needs to be worked on. The more server requests are made, the longer it takes to load the page. Not a good result by any measure.

Alexa ranking in-depth

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.

• blackburncitizen.co.uk takes up 955 802 place globally, according to Alexa. We made sure to update this information on 2014-09-05.
• Compare the current rank to all-time best of 924 033, which this website enjoyed on 2014-03-05.
• On the other end of the scale, the worst rank ever was 994 422, rated on 2014-03-01. Compare that to the current rank to see a marked improvement, even if of debatable importance.
• Given all the numbers, the average Global rank is at 976 676.

QUANTCAST rank overview

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 178 310 835 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.

• Quantcast claims blackburncitizen.co.uk takes up 221 529 place at this time, among all the indexed websites. We last checked this data on 2015-02-05.
• This website achieved its best Quantcast rank of 47 890 on 2014-11-08.
• For comparison, the worst position was 369 122 on 2014-05-13.

Detailed Host Server Information

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.

• The website's server IP address is 62.233.114.118.
• Server appears to be online.

HTTP header and WHOIS information

Let's see what technical information we've managed to gather:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
X-pagename: BlockHomepage
X-hit-cache: HIT
ETag: "28079fdedc58d64b59d2e458858dd36c"
Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:45:05 +0100
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Cache-Control: public, max-age=120
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:46:01 GMT
X-Varnish: 880939757 880898001
Connection: keep-alive

Domain name:
blackburncitizen.co.uk
Registrant:
Jane Law
Trading as:
Newsquest (Lancashire) Ltd
Registrant type:
UK Limited Company, (Company number: 3102566)
Registrant's address:
Newspaper House
High Street
Blackburn
Unknown
BB1 1HT
United Kingdom
Data validation:
Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 10-Dec-2012
Registrar:
Newsquest Oxford & Wiltshire Limited t/a Newsquest Digital Media [Tag = NEWSCOMM]
URL: http://www.newsquest.co.uk/domains
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 17-Apr-2000
Expiry date:  17-Apr-2018
Last updated:  29-Feb-2016
Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.
Name servers:
ns1.namecity.com
ns2.namecity.com
WHOIS lookup made at 22:10:01 27-May-2017
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