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) | SAML (Authentication) | University IT | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 37. |
Website meta description | SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an Authentication and Authorization protocol that Stanford is employing more and more to power single-sign-on and identity management underlying WebLogin. SAML is part of a coordinated ensemble of technologies that protect the university’s restricted data while enabling not just Stanford people but also trusted colleagues at other institutions to access resources with just one login action. Examples of SAML in use at Stanford include partner-provided services such as Office 365, Google Drive, and Box. | The length of the meta description is 551 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Website load speed | Approximately 3.1888 seconds | It takes too long to load the website – we would suggest the webmaster to look into it. |
Homepage links | Approximately 116 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
Size of page HTML | 33.2KB | 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 171.67.24.41. | Due to lack of data, we can't provide a meaningful insight. |
The basic overview not enough? Let's dive deeper.
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:
Header information |
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:47:40 GMT Server: Apache Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.38-1~dotdeb+7.1 X-Drupal-Cache: HIT Etag: "1511094053-0" Content-Language: en X-Generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org) Link: <https://uit.stanford.edu/service/saml>; rel="canonical",<https://uit.stanford.edu/service/saml>; rel="shortlink" Cache-Control: public, max-age=60 Last-Modified: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:20:53 GMT Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT Vary: Cookie,Accept-Encoding X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge,chrome=1 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 |
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 idp.stanford.edu:
Here is a list of some more reports for you to check. If you found this one on idp.stanford.edu useful, the following list will be of interest to you, too:
This list contains 370 top level domain variantions for idp.stanford.edu domain name: