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) | Home - Office for National Statistics | 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 | A government website providing information about the statistics published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), including methodology, quality, standards and classifications | The length of the meta description is 180 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Website load speed | Approximately 0.4085 seconds | Website load speed is on a good level, great! But if an improvement can be made, it's always for the better. |
Rank by Alexa | 38,942 | The site is among the more popular ones, according to Alexa. How accurate the rank is remains a question. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 259,119, 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 108 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
Pages linking back | We counted 34 | Such a low amount of backlinks is insufficient and either shows the website is of low quality, or does not reach a wide audience. |
Size of page HTML | 33.5KB | This is a very good result, as search engines prioritize websites that are quick to load. |
Server data | Server seems to be online. IP adress for this domain is 52.48.12.36. | Due to lack of data, we can't provide a meaningful insight. |
Status of domain | Date of registry: before Aug-1996 bef | Due to lack of data, we can't provide a meaningful insight. 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 | Law and Government > Government Business and Industry People and Society Finance > Investing |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | bankofengland.co.uk censtatd.gov.hk cso.ie data.gov.uk en.wikipedia.org ft.com gov.uk hm-treasury.gov.uk ifs.org.uk nisra.gov.uk nomisweb.co.uk parliament.uk propertypool.org.uk statcan.gc.ca statistics.gov.uk statisticsauthority.gov.uk ukdataservice.ac.uk |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as ons.gov.uk. Thus, they probably target the same audience and, likely, keywords. |
Commonly visited | data.gov.uk nomisweb.co.uk fullfact.org carraighillcapital.sharepoint.com glantus.com |
Frequent visitors of ons.gov.uk are also interested in these websites. |
Website safety is a key factor that should not be underestimated. After all, our computers and personal information stored on them are not as secure as one might think - the recent flaws found in microprocessors only confirm this. There is more than one source for finding out if a website is safe to visit or not, some more dependable than others. In this section we'll try to cover all the bases, if at all possible.
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 | 1.35M | 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 | +2.65% | Over the past month, the traffic has increased. |
Average visit time | 00:02:28 | Visitors spend a decent amount of time reading the website. |
ons.gov.uk Visit Traffic Bounce Rate | 50.41% | 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 26,919,073 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/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: nginx/1.8.1 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:03:16 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 184 Connection: keep-alive Location: https://www.ons.gov.uk/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: cloudflare-nginx Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:04:15 GMT Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d0fb5dc66a0c4092f8012c7b0fb652d451459249454; expires=Wed, 29-Mar-17 11:04:14 GMT; path=/; domain=.ons.gov.uk; HttpOnly Cache-Control: public, max-age=14400 Vary: Accept-Encoding, User-Agent X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN CF-Cache-Status: EXPIRED Expires: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:04:15 GMT CF-RAY: 28b2d7035b0a39c4-PHX |
WHOIS entry |
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Domain name: gov.uk Registrant: UK Cabinet Office Registrant type: UK Government Body Registrant's address: Government Digital Service Aviation House, 6th floor 125 Kingsway London WC2B 6NH GB Registrar: No registrar listed. This domain is directly registered with Nominet. Relevant dates: Registered on: before Aug-1996 Registration status: No registration status listed. Name servers: ns0.ja.net. ns2.ja.net. ns3.ja.net. ns4.ja.net. auth50.ns.de.uu.net. auth00.ns.de.uu.net. ns1.surfnet.nl. WHOIS lookup made at 12:04:20 29-Mar-2016 -- This WHOIS information is provided for free by Nominet UK the central registry for .uk domain names. This information and the .uk WHOIS are: Copyright Nominet UK 1996 - 2016. You may not access the .uk WHOIS or use any data from it except as permitted by the terms of use available in full at http://www.nominet.uk/whoisterms, which includes restrictions on: (A) use of the data for advertising, or its repackaging, recompilation, redistribution or reuse (B) obscuring, removing or hiding any or all of this notice and (C) exceeding query rate or volume limits. The data is provided on an 'as-is' basis and may lag behind the register. Access may be withdrawn or restricted at any time. |
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 ons.gov.uk:
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This list contains 370 top level domain variantions for ons.gov.uk domain name: