Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
| Parameter name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Website meta title | Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Career Advice, Jobs | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 61. |
| Meta description | Inside Higher Ed is the free daily news Web site for people who work in higher education. Breaking news, lively commentary, and thousands of job listings draw an engaged readership of more than 1,000,000 each month. Daily. Online. Free. Ahead of the curve. Join the conversation at http://insidehighered.com | 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 307 characters. |
| Keywords | Higher, Education, News, Jobs, Events, Career | 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 | 0.8574 seconds on average | Website load speed is pretty fast. |
| Alexa global | 21 599, as last updated | The site is quite popular, according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth, though. |
| Quantcast global | 12 240 | Judging by Quantcast rating, we can assume the website in question is very well known. |
| Total links on homepage | We found 194 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
| Number of backlinks | Around 11 732 | If even half of these are high quality, it speaks volumes of the website's worth. |
| Page HTML size | 103.9KB | 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. |
| Website server | Server appears to be online. The IP address for the server is 74.121.194.14. | We are happy to say that the hosting service is provided by a respected company. Physically, the server is located in Herndon, Virginia, United States. |
| Domain overview | Registered on 2004-10-25 22:36:58 | It's unfortunate, but despite our best attempts, we failed to gather enough data to provide a meaningful insight at this time. At this time, domain insidehighered.com is registered at NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. |
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 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 | academic360.com academiccareers.com aldaily.com boston.com chronicle.com ed.gov edsurge.com edweek.org federalgovernmentjobs.us higheredjobs.com highereducation.org ktla.com slate.com tedjob.com timeshighereducation.co.uk universitybusiness.com universityjobs.com |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as insidehighered.com, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
| Also of interest | chronicle.com emgonline.teamwork.com education.uwsp.edu gwwebacc.csmd.edu jobs.sciencecareers.org |
There is a good chance that the people interested in insidehighered.com 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 | 3.43M | Suffice to say, the website is massively popular. |
| Visitor delta | +11.35% | The past month has seen growth in overall estimated traffic. |
| Time spent on site | 2:13 | This is a decent average time spent on a website. |
| insidehighered.com Traffic Bounce Rate | 77.40% | A decent amount of visitors seem to find valuable information on this website. |
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 7 094 870 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/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Content-length: 0 Location: https://insidehighered.com/ Connection: close HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: Apache Location: https://www.insidehighered.com/ Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:20:12 GMT X-Varnish: 839073073 839072916 Age: 8 Via: 1.1 varnish HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3 X-Drupal-Cache: HIT Etag: "1455015760.815-1" Content-Language: en Link: <https://www.insidehighered.com/>; rel="canonical" Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600 Last-Modified: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:02:40 GMT Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT Vary: Cookie,User-Agent,Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:20:12 GMT X-Varnish: 839073079 839073063 Age: 1 Via: 1.1 varnish |
| WHOIS information |
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Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: INSIDEHIGHERED.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 2 Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://networksolutions.com Name Server: NS1.BLACKMESH.COM Name Server: NS2.BLACKMESH.COM Status: clientTransferProhibited https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 09-sep-2015 Creation Date: 25-oct-2004 Expiration Date: 25-oct-2020 >>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:20:17 GMT <<< For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration. 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 except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations; the Data in VeriSign Global Registry Services' ("VeriSign") Whois database is provided by VeriSign for information purposes only, and to assist persons in obtaining information about or related to a domain name registration record. VeriSign 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 VeriSign (or its computer systems). The compilation, repackaging, dissemination or other use of this Data is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of VeriSign. You agree not to use electronic processes that are automated and high-volume to access or query the Whois database except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations. VeriSign reserves the right to restrict your access to the Whois database in its sole discretion to ensure operational stability. VeriSign may restrict or terminate your access to the Whois database for failure to abide by these terms of use. VeriSign reserves the right to modify these terms at any time. The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and Registrars. |
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