Here is an overview of what we consider to be the key website statistics and information:
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Website meta title | WEIU | Search engines recommend title length of around 50-60 characters. The length of this title is 4. |
Meta description | WEIU-TV 51 began operation on July 1, 1986 offering basic programming including local news, public affairs, and instructional programming to the people of East Central Illinois for the first time. Things were a little rough in the beginning as dollars were tight and staff members were inexperienced. "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome live, to the campus of Eastern Illinois University" with that Daniel Thornburgh the then director of University Relations christened WEIU-TV during it's live on-air dedication on July 1, 1986. WEIU struggled at first to get picked up on local cable systems in the area. Eventually this goal was accomplished as WEIU started to build a presence in the East Central Illinois region. WEIU has always had a focus on local programming for a region that is under served by the commercial stations. Being a public television station WEIU has many advantages over other stations when it comes to local programming. Some of the first local programs that aired on WEIU included "Time Out for Trivia", "EIU Connection", and "Coach's Corner". WEIU's news program at the time News Scan (now News Watch) aired on the campus cable system before the launch of WEIU and later made the transition to channel 51. On September 1, 1986 News Scan aired on WEIU for the first time. At the time about 50 students produced two live newscasts airing at 5:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. daily. The news was put on hold in 1990 when the amount of staffing for News Scan took a dramatic decrease. The news returned to WEIU, however on February 13, 1990 airing a half an hour show at 6:00 p.m. and getting rid of the 9:30 news cast. Sports programming has also been a strong part of the history of WEIU. With shows like Panther Country (now Sports Talk) which have virtually been with the station from the start. The first episode of Panther Country aired in August of 1987 with host David Kidwell. WEIU has also tried when ever possible to air live as many E.I.U sporting events as possible. On January 30th, 1992 WEIU officially joined the PBS network airing 10 hours of PBS children's programming weekly. Shows included "Captain Kangaroo", "Mr. Rogers", and "Reading Rainbow". The station later took on more PBS programming as it has grown into the station that you watch today. | 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 2274 characters. |
Load time | 7.8697 seconds on average | Load speed is a concern and should be improved if and when possible. |
Alexa global | 7 450 103, as last updated | According to Alexa, the website's popularity is not exactly high. Take this rank with a healthy pinch of salt. |
Total links on homepage | We found 130 links | This is a normal amount of links. |
Number of backlinks | Around 81 | Backlinks is one of the key metrics for search engines. This website seems to have a very low number of backlinks, which means poorer rank in search results. |
Page HTML size | 45.5KB | 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 69.195.124.65. | 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.
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Relevant categories | Arts Television Stations North America United States Illinois |
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 weiu.net, and so target the same audience and, likely, keywords. To a larger or smaller extent, all of them are competitors. |
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.
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/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.12.1 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 20:17:24 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding |
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 1701 mistypes, associated with weiu.net:
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