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merit.edu Data In-Depth

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?

Page speed overview

• It takes around 2.6083 seconds for the homepage to fully load. If it were up to us, we'd urge the webmaster to improve. The result isn't very good, you see. Just saying.
• It's worth to note the HTML of the page is around 81.5 kilobytes in size. A good result that should not impact load speed in any negative way.
• Judging by tags, the homepage contains at least 13 images. A great amount! Not too many, at least. Images should not impact page load speed negatively.
• Our database tells us around 66 server requests are made before the homepage is loaded completely. Wow, that's a lot. Certainly, so many server requests contribute to slower page load times.

Alexa rank up close and personal

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.

• Alexa claims merit.edu takes up 979,148 place globally, among all the indexed websites. We updated this information on 2018-01-28.
• Compare that to the best rank this website has taken 2015-02-26, which is 332,583.
• The delta of this rank over the last three months is around 40791.
• As far as we know, the worst position for merit.edu was 999,189 (on 2017-08-06).
• The average Alexa rank for merit.edu is 623,741 at this time.

QUANTCAST rating in detail

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 234,024,472 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.

• As reported by Quantcast, the website takes up 310,113 place globally. This rating was last checked on 2015-02-05.
• The best Quantcast rank of 94,958 was achieved on 2013-12-17.
• As far as we know, the worst position for merit.edu was 567,466 (on 2014-08-07).

Host Server In-Depth

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.

• The current IP address for this website's server is 45.33.22.182.
• Website is hosted on a server that is located in Absecon, which is in New Jersey, United States. The zip is 8205.
• Server seems to be online.

HTTP header and raw WHOIS entry

If you need more raw data, here's what we managed to gather:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 17:03:07 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=20
Location: http://www.merit.edu/

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 17:03:07 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=20
Location: https://www.merit.edu/
X-Type: default

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 17:03:07 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=20
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Link: <https://www.merit.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
Link: <https://www.merit.edu/>; rel=shortlink
X-Cacheable: SHORT
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
Cache-Control: max-age=600, must-revalidate
X-Cache: HIT: 3
X-Pass-Why:
 X-Cache-Group: normal
X-Type: default

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Domain Name: MERIT.EDU
Registrant:

Merit Network Inc

1000 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 200

Ann Arbor, MI 48104-6794

UNITED STATES
Administrative Contact:

Domain Name Billing

Domain Name BIlling

Merit Network Inc.

1000 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 200

Ann Arbor, MI 48104-6794

UNITED STATES

(734) 527-5700

[email protected]
Technical Contact:

 Domain Name Technical Support

Merit Network Inc.

1000 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 200

Ann Arbor, MI 48104-6794

UNITED STATES

(734) 527-5700

[email protected]
Name Servers:

 DNS1.MERIT.NET




DNS2.MERIT.NET




DNS3.MERIT.NET



Domain record activated:

03-Oct-1986 Domain record last updated: 03-Feb-2009 Domain expires:





 31-Jul-2017