Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
| Parameter name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Website meta title | The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina - The Citadel - Charleston, SC | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 82. |
| Meta description | A public, coeducational college established as the Military College of South Carolina in 1842. Offers degree programs in the humanities, social and natural sciences, business, engineering, and education from its campus on the Ashley River in Charleston, SC. | 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 257 characters. |
| Keywords | The Citadel, military college, South Carolina, Charleston, Citadel, graduate school, masters degree, corps of cadets, charleston sc, rotc college | 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 | 1.8937 seconds on average | Load speed is a concern and should be improved if and when possible. |
| Alexa global | 118 499, as last updated | The site is quite popular, according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth, though. |
| Quantcast global | 165 367 | The website's rank is quite poor. As with Alexa, QUANTCAST is not always perfectly representative of a website's performance. |
| Total links on homepage | We found 346 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
| Number of backlinks | Around 242 | Such a decent amount of backlinks certainly ads to the ranking. |
| Page HTML size | 56.6KB | 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 155.225.198.23. | We are happy to say that the hosting service is provided by a respected company. Physically, the server is located in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. |
| Domain overview | Registered on 1993-08-19 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. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Relevant categories | Reference Education Colleges and Universities North America United States South Carolina Citadel, The |
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 | baylor.edu citadelbanking.com citadeloutlets.com claflin.edu clemson.edu cofc.edu csuniv.edu csuohio.edu drexel.edu ecu.edu en.wikipedia.org flsouthern.edu hamptonu.edu lander.edu sc.edu vmi.edu |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as citadel.edu, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
| Also of interest | doriegriggs.wordpress.com citlearn.blackboard.com online.norwich.edu rotc.blackboard.com afrotc.com |
There is a good chance that the people interested in citadel.edu 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?
| Parameter name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly traffic | 188.07K | In the grand scheme of things, the website is not exactly a giant in terms of traffic. But the target audience should be taken into account, too. |
| Visitor delta | -57.70% | Lately, the website's been receiving less traffic. |
| Time spent on site | 4:37 | People are in no hurry to leave the website, great! |
| citadel.edu Traffic Bounce Rate | 25.27% | A great result and shows that the content is of good enough depth and quality for most readers. |
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 60 957 983 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:
| Header in detail |
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HTTP/1.1 302 Redirect Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Location: http://www.citadel.edu/ Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 09:21:39 GMT Content-Length: 146 HTTP/1.1 302 Redirect Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Location: http://www.citadel.edu/root/ Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 09:21:39 GMT Content-Length: 151 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: text/html ETag: 7d4653f7ac7a43cac1e6be0ce56544b7 Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.8 Set-Cookie: a20c3a6d0fa56eab696b78ef09dcacf9=d3a0d792b0f71b71f9961141e40575c9; path=/ X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 09:21:40 GMT Content-Length: 54794 |
| WHOIS information |
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This Registry database contains ONLY .EDU domains. The data in the EDUCAUSE Whois database is provided by EDUCAUSE for information purposes in order to assist in the process of obtaining information about or related to .edu domain registration records. The EDUCAUSE Whois database is authoritative for the .EDU domain. A Web interface for the .EDU EDUCAUSE Whois Server is available at: http://whois.educause.net By submitting a Whois query, you agree that this information will not be used to allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of unsolicited commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail. The use of electronic processes to harvest information from this server is generally prohibited except as reasonably necessary to register or modify .edu domain names. You may use "%" as a wildcard in your search. For further information regarding the use of this WHOIS server, please type: help -------------------------- Domain Name: CITADEL.EDU Registrant: The Citadel INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES 171 MOULTRIE ST CHARLESTON, SC 29409 UNITED STATES Administrative Contact: Robert Palmer Director of ITS/Enterprise Systems Services The Citadel 171 Moultrie Street Charleston, SC 29409 UNITED STATES (843) 953-6985 [email protected] Technical Contact: The Citadel ITS 171 Moultrie St Charleston, SC 29409 UNITED STATES (843) 953-6985 [email protected] Name Servers: DNS1.CITADEL.EDU 155.225.6.10 DNS2.CITADEL.EDU 155.225.6.13 EXTNS3.CLEMSON.EDU EXTNS2.CLEMSON.EDU EXTNS1.CLEMSON.EDU Domain record activated: 19-Aug-1993 Domain record last updated: 01-Jul-2015 Domain expires: 31-Jul-2016 |
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