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) | Polygon | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 7. |
Website meta description | A description has not been provided for this site. | The length of the meta description is 50 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Website load speed | Approximately 0.5418 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 | 983 | The website is very well known according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 600, after last update | According to Quantcast, the website is very well known. |
Homepage links | Approximately 268 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
Pages linking back | We counted 527 | A good amount of backlinks to improve ranking, though there is always room for more. |
Size of page HTML | 114.1KB | 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 151.101.1.52. | The location of the server is in San Francisco, California, United States. The hosting service is provided by a known, trustworthy company. |
Status of domain | Date of registry: 1992-07-17 09:30:00 | Due to lack of data, we can't provide a meaningful insight. polygon.com has been registered at CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC. |
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 | Games > Video Games Games News and Media News and Media > Technology News |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | en.wikipedia.org eurogamer.net gameinformer.com gamespot.com giantbomb.com ign.com joystiq.com kotaku.com mathsisfun.com n4g.com pcgamer.com polyhomes.com rockpapershotgun.com theverge.com vg247.com |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as polygon.com. Thus, they probably target the same audience and, likely, keywords. |
Commonly visited | kotaku.com theverge.com kotaku.co.uk destructoid.com thejimquisition.com |
Frequent visitors of polygon.com 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 | 41.38M | 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 | -6.52% | The number of visitors has decreased compared to the month before. |
Average visit time | 00:01:28 | Visitors spend a decent amount of time reading the website. |
polygon.com Visit Traffic Bounce Rate | 71.50% | 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 627,168 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: Varnish Retry-After: 0 Location: http://www.polygon.com/ Content-Length: 0 Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 17:17:40 GMT Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: close X-Served-By: cache-lax8640-LAX X-Cache: HIT X-Cache-Hits: 0 X-Timer: S1483982260.948900,VS0,VE0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Cache-Control: max-age=0, must-revalidate Surrogate-Keys: nid-4 cid-405 X-Request-Id: 1c2ecd603e5079971f3497c8330ab3b9049ecadd X-Runtime: 0.140087 Via: 1.1 varnish-v4 Content-Length: 136124 Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 17:17:41 GMT Via: 1.1 varnish Age: 287 Connection: keep-alive X-Served-By: cache-lax8633-LAX X-Cache: HIT X-Cache-Hits: 1 X-Timer: S1483982261.014809,VS0,VE0 Vary: Accept-Encoding, Accept-Encoding, X-Chorus-Unison-Testing, Origin, X-Forwarded-Proto, X-Chorus-Unison-Testing |
WHOIS entry |
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Domain Name: polygon.com Registry Domain ID: 2364151_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.corporatedomains.com Registrar URL: www.cscprotectsbrands.com Updated Date: 2016-10-21T22:39:05Z Creation Date: 1992-07-17T04:00:00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Registrar: CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC. Registrar IANA ID: 299 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected] Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8887802723 Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited Domain Status: serverDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#serverDeleteProhibited Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited Registry Registrant ID: Registrant Name: Domain Administrator Registrant Organization: Vox Media, Inc. Registrant Street: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW Registrant City: Washington Registrant State/Province: DC Registrant Postal Code: 20036 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.2025911140 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: +1.7039914516 Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: [email protected] Registry Admin ID: Admin Name: Domain Administrator Admin Organization: Vox Media, Inc. Admin Street: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW Admin City: Washington Admin State/Province: DC Admin Postal Code: 20036 Admin Country: US Admin Phone: +1.2025911140 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: +1.7039914516 Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: [email protected] Registry Tech ID: Tech Name: Domain Administrator Tech Organization: Vox Media, Inc. Tech Street: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW Tech City: Washington Tech State/Province: DC Tech Postal Code: 20036 Tech Country: US Tech Phone: +1.2025911140 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: +1.7039914516 Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: [email protected] Name Server: ns-666.awsdns-19.net Name Server: ns-1527.awsdns-62.org Name Server: ns4.p16.dynect.net Name Server: ns2.p16.dynect.net Name Server: ns3.p16.dynect.net Name Server: ns1.p16.dynect.net Name Server: ns-295.awsdns-36.com Name Server: ns-1903.awsdns-45.co.uk DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-10-21T22:39:05Z <<< For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp Corporation Service Company(c) (CSC) The Trusted Partner of More than 50% of the 100 Best Global Brands. Contact us to learn more about our enterprise solutions for Global Domain Name Registration and Management, Trademark Research and Watching, Brand, Logo and Auction Monitoring, as well SSL Certificate Services and DNS Hosting. NOTICE: You are not authorized to access or query our WHOIS database through the use of high-volume, automated, electronic processes or for the purpose or purposes of using the data in any manner that violates these terms of use. The Data in the CSC WHOIS database is provided by CSC for information purposes only, and to assist persons in obtaining information about or related to a domain name registration record. CSC does not guarantee its accuracy. By submitting a WHOIS query, you agree to abide by the following terms of use: you agree that you may use this Data only for lawful purposes and that under no circumstances will you use this Data to: (1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via direct mail, e-mail, telephone, or facsimile; or (2) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply to CSC (or its computer systems). CSC reserves the right to terminate your access to the WHOIS database in its sole discretion for any violations by you of these terms of use. CSC reserves the right to modify these terms at any time. Register your domain name at http://www.cscglobal.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 polygon.com:
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