Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
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Website meta title | Home | Modern Language ***ociation | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 34. |
Meta description | The MLA is the official guide to non-fiction writing. Includes a guide to MLA style. | 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 84 characters. |
Keywords | MLA, Modern Language Association, MLA format, MLA style, MLA handbook, MLA convention, MLA bibliography, scholarship, research, scholarly publications, job information list | 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 | 4.2119 seconds on average | Load speed is a concern and should be improved if and when possible. |
Alexa global | 86 708, as last updated | The site is quite popular, according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth, though. |
Quantcast global | 47 908 | The site is well known, judging by QUANTCAST rank. |
Total links on homepage | We found 148 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
Number of backlinks | Around 223 | 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 52.3.75.215. | We are happy to say that the hosting service is provided by a respected company. Physically, the server is located in Lansing, Michigan, United States. |
Domain overview | Registered on 1992-07-29 04:00:00 | 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 mla.org 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 |
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Relevant categories | Arts Writers Resources Style Guides Science Social Sciences Linguistics Languages Education Associations Science Social Sciences Linguistics Professional Organizations |
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 | acls.org ade.org adfl.org apa.org apastyle.org bartleby.com calstatela.edu chicagomanualofstyle.org chronicle.com csus.edu easybib.com eazypaper.com en.wikipedia.org jerz.setonhill.edu library.cornell.edu mlahandbook.org owl.english.purdue.edu worldwidewords.org |
These are the websites that fall into the same category as mla.org, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
Also of interest | mesana.org academicjobs.wikia.com biblio.contad.unam.mx chroniclevitae.com smcsc-my.sharepoint.com |
There is a good chance that the people interested in mla.org 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 |
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Monthly traffic | 586.92K | 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 | +61.68% | The past month has seen growth in overall estimated traffic. |
Time spent on site | 2:00 | This is a decent average time spent on a website. |
mla.org Traffic Bounce Rate | 60.79% | 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 68 277 532 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:
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HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 11:13:32 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Location: http://www.mla.org/ Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 300 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 HTTP/1.1 302 Found Cache-control: no-cache="set-cookie" Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 11:15:41 GMT Location: https://www.mla.org/ Server: Varnish Set-Cookie: AWSELB=C1697FFB1C3F6E0EAFF075F4EF0BED2DE89A55958175F8981A3841460A2A330C20DFABF3E30609A4966E2FA2BDC506311CC95EF350D186AD7B41F6274E696945E88ECC4BB6;PATH=/;MAX-AGE=259200 X-Varnish: 1154229 Content-Length: 0 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.1 200 OK Accept-Ranges: bytes Age: 0 Cache-Control: max-age=2, no-cache, public, s-maxage=300 Cache-control: no-cache="set-cookie" Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 11:15:44 GMT Server: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu) Set-Cookie: AWSELB=C1697FFB1C3F6E0EAFF075F4EF0BED2DE89A55958175F8981A3841460A2A330C20DFABF3E30609A4966E2FA2BDC506311CC95EF350982D80C496C8244E543DFD52D71FCEC4;PATH=/;MAX-AGE=259200 Vary: Accept-Encoding Via: 1.1 varnish-v4 X-Installation-Id: b917b1baac63b8c153df16a990d4789d X-Location-Id: 88 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14 X-Varnish: 236357 transfer-encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive |
WHOIS information |
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Domain Name: MLA.ORG Domain ID: D1038223-LROR WHOIS Server: Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Updated Date: 2008-05-03T02:07:25Z Creation Date: 1992-07-29T04:00:00Z Registry Expiry Date: 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Sponsoring Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 2 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Registrant ID: 20000343-NSIV Registrant Name: Perfect Privacy, LLC Registrant Organization: Modern Language Association of America Registrant Street: 12808 Gran Bay Parkway West Registrant Street: care of Network Solutions Registrant City: Jacksonville Registrant State/Province: FL Registrant Postal Code: 32258 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.5707088780 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: [email protected] Admin ID: 20000341-NSIV Admin Name: Perfect Privacy, LLC Admin Organization: MLA Admin Street: 12808 Gran Bay Parkway West Admin Street: care of Network Solutions Admin City: Jacksonville Admin State/Province: FL Admin Postal Code: 32258 Admin Country: US Admin Phone: +1.5707088780 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: [email protected] Tech ID: 20000341-NSIV Tech Name: Perfect Privacy, LLC Tech Organization: MLA Tech Street: 12808 Gran Bay Parkway West Tech Street: care of Network Solutions Tech City: Jacksonville Tech State/Province: FL Tech Postal Code: 32258 Tech Country: US Tech Phone: +1.5707088780 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: [email protected] Name Server: AUTH1.DNS.COGENTCO.COM Name Server: AUTH2.DNS.COGENTCO.COM DNSSEC: unsigned >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-05-03T22:16:10Z <<< "For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp" Access to Public Interest Registry WHOIS information is provided to assist persons in determining the contents of a domain name registration record in the Public Interest Registry registry database. The data in this record is provided by Public Interest Registry for informational purposes only, and Public Interest Registry does not guarantee its accuracy. This service is intended only for query-based access. You agree that you will use this data only for lawful purposes and that, under no circumstances will you use this data to(a) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission by e-mail, telephone, or facsimile of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations to entities other than the data recipient's own existing customers; or (b) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that send queries or data to the systems of Registry Operator, a Registrar, or Afilias except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations. All rights reserved. Public Interest Registry reserves the right to modify these terms at any time. By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy. |
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