Perhaps the most relevant statistics data that we could gather is presented here:
Data type/Website parameter | Status or value | Our findings |
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Site title (meta) | CiteULike: Everyone's library | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 29. |
Website meta description | Search, organize, and share scholarly papers. Indexes over 2 million articles. | The length of the meta description is 78 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Metadata keywords | citeulike citation reference management | Oh. It's unexpected, to put it mildly, to see meta keywords still being used. After all, they are no longer a ranking factor and associate with spam more than anything else. |
Website load speed | Approximately 1.6313 seconds | It takes too long to load the website – we would suggest the webmaster to look into it. |
Rank by Alexa | 50,854 | The site is among the more popular ones, according to Alexa. How accurate the rank is remains a question. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 204,801, after last update | Based on the gathered data, Quantcast does not consider this website to be popular. Take it for what it's worth. |
Homepage links | Approximately 3 | Such an amount of links on a homepage might raise a question or two. |
Pages linking back | We counted 6,827 | A great amount of backlinks. |
Size of page HTML | 6.3KB | If it were up to us, we'd urge the webmaster to improve. The result isn't very good, you see. Just saying. |
Server data | Server seems to be online. IP adress for this domain is 46.235.226.170. | Due to lack of data, we can't provide a meaningful insight. |
The basic overview not enough? Let's dive deeper.
A website is not just Quantcast ranks and meta information. There is a whole lot more to it. Let's give it a proper look now, shall we?
Data type/Website parameter | Status or value | Our findings |
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Categories of the website | Reference Libraries Library and Information Science Technical Services Cataloguing Bibliographic Utilities Computers Internet Searching Search Engines Academic |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | bibme.org bibsonomy.org citebase.org connotea.org digg.com diigo.com en.wikipedia.org endnote.com getcited.org google.com mendeley.com refworks.com researchgate.net sas.com stumbleupon.com zotero.org |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as citeulike.org. Thus, they probably target the same audience and, likely, keywords. |
Commonly visited | znetlive.com rustyblogger.com crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu allaboutux.org intechopen.com |
Frequent visitors of citeulike.org are also interested in these websites. |
The following statistics are provided only as an approximation. We can't guarantee the numbers are absolutely correct, but we do believe they are very much within the ballpark and, as such, can give a pretty good idea about the popularity of this website.
Let's start with some telling numbers and then break it all down.
Data type/Website parameter | Status or value | Our findings |
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Approximate monthly visitors | 396.88K | Without taking the size of the target audience into account, we would say the website's not that popular. But, again, that is a somewhat superficial assessment - make your own conclusions. |
Traffic delta | +53.60% | Over the past month, the traffic has increased. |
Average visit time | 00:01:34 | Visitors spend a decent amount of time reading the website. |
citeulike.org Visit Traffic Bounce Rate | 50.81% | A pretty good amount of visitors find valuable information here without going back to search results. |
Alexa, perhaps the oldest ranking system of its sort, bases it's website rating on approximated number of visitors of a specific page. In other words, the more visitors, the higher the global and local ranks. As of recently, Alexa has well over four million websites ranked. Having said all that, Alexa rank should be taken with a grain of salt. Or a massive bucketload. In other words, we think it to be greatly overrated, as it never takes into account how popular a website is within its niche.
QUANTCAST is very similar to Alexa, though perhaps enjoys an overall better user opinion even if, by comparison, the data processing company's rank index is smaller. The main interest of QUANTCAST is real-time audience analysis, so again the rank is based on traffic. QUANTCAST gathers this data mainly for advertising purposes of other companies. We know that, so far, QUANTCAST has ranked 245,315,756 websites, give or take a few. With all of this said, Quantcast rank is not really any more useful than that of Alexa and most similar ranking systems. Few of them, if any, take context into account and rate websites purely on traffic numbers (guesstimated, in so many cases). It's by far not the most accurate representation of a website's worth.
What is a server? It's basically a physical storage device (one that, sometimes, makes up several virtual servers for the cheaper shared hosting) that holds all the files and databases associated with a specific website or websites. Obviously, it's a touch more complicated than that (servers also have processors), but the essence is quite simple - your browser contacts the server, which then sends all the neccessary information and files to your computer. Each physical server has a unique IP address assigned to it, too, for easy recognition.
If you need more raw data, here's what we managed to gather:
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/0.8.31 Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:23:55 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding Max-Age: 0 Expires: 0 Cache-Control: no-cache MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Length: 6483 |
WHOIS entry |
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Domain Name: CITEULIKE.ORG Registry Domain ID: D105102285-LROR Registrar WHOIS Server: Registrar URL: http://www.domainmonster.com Updated Date: 2015-01-06T00:20:27Z Creation Date: 2004-11-07T12:34:09Z Registry Expiry Date: 2017-11-07T12:34:09Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: Registrar: Mesh Digital Limited Registrar IANA ID: 1390 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: Reseller: Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited Registry Registrant ID: C156076825-LROR Registrant Name: Richard Cameron Registrant Organization: Richard Cameron Registrant Street: 21 Sackville Place Registrant City: Manchester Registrant State/Province: Lancashire Registrant Postal Code: M17AT Registrant Country: GB Registrant Phone: +44.7712189442 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Registry Admin ID: C156076826-LROR Admin Name: Richard Cameron Admin Organization: Richard Cameron Admin Street: 21 Sackville Place Admin City: Manchester Admin State/Province: Lancashire Admin Postal Code: M17AT Admin Country: GB Admin Phone: +44.7712189442 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: Registry Tech ID: C156076828-LROR Tech Name: Webfusion Ltd Tech Organization: Webfusion Ltd. Tech Street: 5 Roundwood Avenue Tech Street: Stockley Park Tech City: Uxbridge Tech State/Province: Middlesex Tech Postal Code: UB111FF Tech Country: GB Tech Phone: +44.8712309525 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: +44.8701650437 Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: Name Server: NS.123-REG.CO.UK Name Server: NS2.123-REG.CO.UK DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-05-09T15:58:11Z <<< 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. |
Typos are not uncommon, not even with website addresses. More than that, the more popular the website, the more typos there tend to happen. We have gathered and generated the following list of most frequently encountered mistypes for citeulike.org:
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This list contains 370 top level domain variantions for citeulike.org domain name: