Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
| Parameter name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Website meta title | Home | Library of Congress | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 26. |
| Meta description | The Library of Congress is the nation\'s oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and m****cripts. | 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 310 characters. |
| Load time | 0.8275 seconds on average | Website load speed is pretty fast. |
| Alexa global | 6 465, as last updated | According to Alexa, the website is frequently visited and is very popular. |
| Quantcast global | 1 980 | Judging by Quantcast rating, we can assume the website in question is very well known. |
| Total links on homepage | We found 115 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
| Number of backlinks | Around 9 681 | If even half of these are high quality, it speaks volumes of the website's worth. |
| Page HTML size | 89.9KB | 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 140.147.249.7. | We are happy to say that the hosting service is provided by a respected company. Physically, the server is located in Washington, District Of Columbia, United States. |
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 Libraries Research Computers Internet Resources Research Recreation Antiques Photographs Regional North America United States Government Legislative Branch Agencies that Support Congress Library of Congress |
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 | history.com archives.gov ushistory.org pbs.org jstor.org |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as loc.gov, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Time spent on site | 4:32 | 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 1 358 246 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 |
|---|
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 05:17:47 GMT Age: 81408 Connection: keep-alive |
| WHOIS information |
|---|
% DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready Domain Name: LOC.GOV Status: ACTIVE >>> Last update of whois database: 2016-01-28T05:17:37Z <<< Please be advised that this whois server only contains information pertaining to the .GOV domain. For information for other domains please use the whois server at RS.INTERNIC.NET. |
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 1350 mistypes, associated with loc.gov:
If you are curious about what TLD extensions could also match the domain name of loc.gov well, we have prepared an extensive list for you to look through:
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