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) | Reference.com - What's Your Question | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 36. |
Website meta description | Reference.com is the #1 question answering service that delivers the best answers from the web and real people - all in one place. | The length of the meta description is 130 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Website load speed | Approximately 0.5855 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 | 4,679 | The website is very well known according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth. |
Homepage links | Approximately 56 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
Pages linking back | We counted 27,836 | A great amount of backlinks. |
Size of page HTML | 67KB | 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 172.227.15.95. | 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 | Internet and Telecom > Search Engine Reference > Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Internet and Telecom > Domain Names and Register Computer and Electronics > Software |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | amazon.com answers.com aol.com bartleby.com britannica.com cnet.com cnn.com ebay.com en.wikipedia.org encyclopedia.com facebook.com imdb.com merriam-webster.com nytimes.com thefreedictionary.com thesaurus.com webopedia.com yahoo.com yourdictionary.com youtube.com |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as reference.com. Thus, they probably target the same audience and, likely, keywords. |
Commonly visited | related.webmd.com wiktionary.org metacrawler.com searchnow.com lifescript.com |
Frequent visitors of reference.com are also interested in these websites. |
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 | 22.66M | The website appears to be extremely popular. |
Traffic delta | -31.15% | The number of visitors has decreased compared to the month before. |
Average visit time | 00:01:49 | Visitors spend a decent amount of time reading the website. |
reference.com Visit Traffic Bounce Rate | 59.73% | 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.
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:
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Cache-Control: private Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 02:25:06 GMT Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Connection: Transfer-Encoding Set-Cookie: user="o=600605&l=dir"; Domain=.reference.com; Path=/ Set-Cookie: uc=u=29D743FB-1F83-42BA-B876-2D8696C397A3&sn=contreffeiad-36-jx63t&od=none&op=-&fv=1497579906275&lv=1497579906275&ok=-&nv=1; Max-Age=315000000; Domain=.reference.com; Path=/; Expires=Wed, 09 Jun 2027 22:25:06 GMT Set-Cookie: ucs=sk=-&sp=-&so=-&sd=none&sc=-&s=1518917723&ap=-&am=-&an=-&ad=dirN&sv=1497579906275&ag=-&ps=1&af=-; Domain=.reference.com; Path=/ Set-Cookie: 95a07781d4a66bc5ab557cd52c7e4434=e76343b808f66d056e4bf7321c6bce16; path=/; HttpOnly |
WHOIS entry |
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Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Server Name: REFERENCE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM IP Address: 66.226.72.11 Registrar: INSTRA CORPORATION PTY, LTD. Whois Server: whois.instra.net Referral URL: http://www.instra.com Domain Name: REFERENCE.COM Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC. Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 292 Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com Name Server: NS1.ASK.COM Name Server: NS2.ASK.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 05-dec-2013 Creation Date: 25-jan-1995 Expiration Date: 27-jul-2019 >>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 09 May 2017 09:03:01 GMT <<< For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring registrar. 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Registrar IANA ID: 292 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.2083895740 Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited) Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited) Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited) Registry Registrant ID: Registrant Name: DNS Manager Registrant Organization: Dictionary.com Registrant Street: 555 12th Street, Suite 100 Registrant City: Oakland Registrant State/Province: CA Registrant Postal Code: 94607 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.5109857400 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Registry Admin ID: Admin Name: DNS Manager Admin Organization: Dictionary.com Admin Street: 555 12th Street, Suite 100 Admin City: Oakland Admin State/Province: CA Admin Postal Code: 94607 Admin Country: US Admin Phone: +1.5109857400 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: Registry Tech ID: Tech Name: DNS Manager Tech Organization: Dictionary.com Tech Street: 555 12th Street, Suite 100 Tech City: Oakland Tech State/Province: CA Tech Postal Code: 94607 Tech Country: US Tech Phone: +1.5109857400 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: Name Server: ns2.ask.com Name Server: ns1.ask.com DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-05-09T01:57:54-0700 <<< The Data in MarkMonitor.com's WHOIS database is provided by MarkMonitor.com for information purposes, and to assist persons in obtaining information about or related to a domain name registration record. 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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 reference.com:
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