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 | Welcome to The City of Cardiff Council - Cardiff.gov.uk | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 57. |
Meta description | Information on the media, tourism, business, travel and sports. | 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 63 characters. |
Keywords | Cardiff Council,Cardiff,Wales,Capital of Wales,Glamorgan,Cardiff Bay, Millennium Stadium, Welsh Capital, Housing, Childcare, Social Services, Leisure, Council Tax | 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 | 3.4426 seconds on average | Load speed is a concern and should be improved if and when possible. |
Alexa global | 211 621, as last updated | According to Alexa, the website's popularity is not exactly high. Take this rank with a healthy pinch of salt. |
Total links on homepage | We found 34 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
Number of backlinks | Around 429 | Such a decent amount of backlinks certainly ads to the ranking. |
Page HTML size | 48KB | 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 194.80.132.10. | 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 Europe United Kingdom Wales Government Local Councils Regional Europe United Kingdom Wales Cardiff Government |
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 | councilparking.org visitcardiff.com valeofglamorgan.gov.uk cardiffbus.com dwrcymru.com |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as cardiff.gov.uk, 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 | 3:08 | 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 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Expires: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 03:14:34 GMT Last-Modified: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 03:14:34 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 SPRequestGuid: 364c5c47-1334-4093-9547-e81a617d6e2d X-SharePointHealthScore: 1 X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 14.0.0.7006 X-MS-InvokeApp: 1; RequireReadOnly Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 03:14:33 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 48268 Vary: Accept-Encoding |
WHOIS information |
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Domain: cardiff.gov.uk Registered For: Cardiff County Council Domain Owner: Cardiff Council Registered By: Virgin Media Business Limited Servers: dns0.wnl.net dns1.wnl.net dns2.wnl.net Registrant Contact: Jon Lansley Registrant Address: County Hall Atlantic Wharf Cardiff CF10 4UW United Kingdom +44 (0)29 2087 2120 (Phone) J. Renewal date: Thursday 15th Mar 2018 Entry updated: Saturday 20th February 2016 Entry created: Monday 17th November 2003 |
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 1738 mistypes, associated with cardiff.gov.uk:
If you are curious about what TLD extensions could also match the domain name of cardiff.gov.uk well, we have prepared an extensive list for you to look through:
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