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) | OCAD University | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 15. |
Website meta description | Post-secondary institution in Toronto, Ontario, dedicated to the education of professional artists and designers. | The length of the meta description is 113 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Metadata keywords | ocad, ocad university, art, design, new media, graduate studies, BA, digital futures | 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 4.848 seconds | It takes too long to load the website – we would suggest the webmaster to look into it. |
Rank by Alexa | 94,520 | The site is among the more popular ones, according to Alexa. How accurate the rank is remains a question. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 254,009, 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 554 | Such an amount of links on a homepage might raise a question or two. |
Pages linking back | We counted 775 | A good amount of backlinks to improve ranking, though there is always room for more. |
Size of page HTML | 115.2KB | 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 205.211.168.18. | 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 | Arts Education Colleges and Departments North America Canada |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | ocadu.ca sumitsoft.com neospeech.com taming-openoffice-org.com odfauthors.org |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as ocad.ca. Thus, they probably target the same audience and, likely, keywords. |
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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Average visit time | 1:43 | Visitors spend a decent amount of time reading the website. |
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 254,103,037 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:
Header information |
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private Content-Length: 117290 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-ACMCache: ReasonNotCached: Policy forbids output cache. Cache at 26/06/2017 3:18:04 PM based on 'Default' (1). Output: False CacheHeader: False ExpireIn: 0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=upopgthfwzbvn0ohzwdljkde; path=/; HttpOnly Set-Cookie: IronPoint=; expires=Tue, 12-Oct-1999 04:00:00 GMT; path=/; HttpOnly Set-Cookie: CurrentSiteID=3; path=/ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:18:03 GMT |
WHOIS entry |
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Domain name: ocad.ca Domain status: registered Creation date: 2000/10/19 Expiry date: 2018/01/28 Updated date: 2017/03/14 DNSSEC: Unsigned Registrar: Name: Internic.ca Inc. Number: 29 Registrant: Name: OCAD University Administrative contact: Name: Alastair MacLeod Postal address: 100 McCaul St. Toronto ON M5T1W1 Canada Phone: +1.4169776000x242 Fax: +1.4169776006 Email: Technical contact: Name: Yong Zhang Postal address: 100 McCaul Street Toronto ON M5W1T1 Canada Phone: +1.4169776000x377 Fax: +1.4169776006 Email: Name servers: auth1.dns.cogentco.com auth2.dns.cogentco.com |
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 ocad.ca:
Here is a list of some more reports for you to check. If you found this one on ocad.ca useful, the following list will be of interest to you, too:
This list contains 370 top level domain variantions for ocad.ca domain name: