Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
| Parameter name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Website meta title | Purdue University - Indiana's Land Grant University | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 51. |
| Meta description | This is the official Web site of Purdue University, home of the Boilermakers, alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon, and proud member of the Big Ten Conference. Perennially ranked among the nation's top public universities and research institutions, Purdue serves as Indiana's land-, sea-, and space-grant university with a main campus in West Lafayette and locations across the state. | 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 404 characters. |
| Keywords | Purdue University, Boilermakers, Boilers, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, college, university, higher education, academics, technology, engineering, agriculture, health sciences, liberal arts, libraries, research, athletics, Ross-Ade Stadium, Mackey Arena, employment, professors, astronauts, world food prize, nobel prize, real-world, innovation | 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 | 0.6587 seconds on average | Website load speed is pretty fast. |
| Alexa global | 2 231, as last updated | According to Alexa, the website is frequently visited and is very popular. |
| Quantcast global | 3 876 | Judging by Quantcast rating, we can assume the website in question is very well known. |
| Total links on homepage | We found 78 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
| Number of backlinks | Around 28 271 | If even half of these are high quality, it speaks volumes of the website's worth. |
| Page HTML size | 18.2KB | 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 128.210.7.200. | 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 Indiana Purdue University |
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. |
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These are the websites that fall into the same category as purdue.edu, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
| Also of interest | ctan.org purdue-primo-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com citationmachine.net purdue0-my.sharepoint.com pnw.edu |
There is a good chance that the people interested in purdue.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 | 25.85M | 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 | +29.26% | The past month has seen growth in overall estimated traffic. |
| Time spent on site | 4:22 | People are in no hurry to leave the website, great! |
| purdue.edu Traffic Bounce Rate | 58.22% | 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 2 213 759 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/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 10:08:03 GMT Server: Apache Cache-Control: no-cache Expires: -1 Last-Modified: Tue, 09 May 2017 02:09:57 GMT ETag: "920607-485a-54f0dda2b6740" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 18522 X-Cnection: close Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: BIGipServer~WEB~pool_lppwebapa01.itap.purdue.edu_web=3170896394.0.0000; path=/ |
| 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: PURDUE.EDU Registrant: Purdue University 155 S. Grant Street Young Hall West Lafayette, IN 47907-2114 UNITED STATES Administrative Contact: Purdue Hostmaster Purdue University 155 S. Grant Street Young Hall West Lafayette, IN 47907-2114 UNITED STATES (765) 494-9012 Technical Contact: Purdue Hostmaster Purdue University 155 S. Grant Street Young Hall West Lafayette, IN 47907-2114 UNITED STATES (765) 494-9012 Name Servers: NS3.PURDUE.EDU 128.210.224.226 NS1.RICE.EDU PENDRAGON.CS.PURDUE.EDU 128.10.2.5 HARBOR.ECN.PURDUE.EDU 128.46.154.76 Domain record activated: 24-Apr-1985 Domain record last updated: 23-Feb-2016 Domain expires: 31-Jul-2017 |
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 1708 mistypes, associated with purdue.edu:
If you are curious about what TLD extensions could also match the domain name of purdue.edu well, we have prepared an extensive list for you to look through:
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