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) | University of South Carolina | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 28. |
Website meta description | Public university located in Columbia offering degrees from associate to doctoral in many different fields including medicine and law. | The length of the meta description is 134 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Metadata keywords | University of South Carolina, usc, UofSC, scdotedu, gamecocks, columbia | 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 0.5003 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 | 9,240 | The website is very well known according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 12,953, after last update | According to Quantcast, the website is very well known. |
Homepage links | Approximately 402 | Such an amount of links on a homepage might raise a question or two. |
Pages linking back | We counted 11,690 | A great amount of backlinks. |
Size of page HTML | 73KB | 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 65.122.170.137. | 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 | Reference Education Colleges and Universities North America United States South Carolina University of South Carolina |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | angelfire.com auth.impulse.com clemson.edu furman.edu gamecocksonline.cstv.com northwestern.edu scsu.edu secsports.com ua.edu uconn.edu uga.edu uh.edu usc.edu uscb.edu wisc.edu |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as sc.edu. Thus, they probably target the same audience and, likely, keywords. |
Commonly visited | cm.maxient.com uscupstate.edu world.wng.org usccolumbia.simnetonline.com gamecocksonline.gradesfirst.com |
Frequent visitors of sc.edu 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 | 3.03M | 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 | +8.75% | Over the past month, the traffic has increased. |
Average visit time | 00:05:54 | This is a good amount of time for visitors to spend on the website on average, great result! |
sc.edu Visit Traffic Bounce Rate | 35.12% | Most visitors seem to stop their searches when on this website and find what they are looking for. |
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 6,282,409 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 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:38:36 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked |
WHOIS entry |
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This Registry database contains ONLY .EDU domains. The data in the EDUCAUSE Whois database is provided by EDUCAUSE for information purposes in order to assist in the process of obtaining information about or related to .edu domain registration records. The EDUCAUSE Whois database is authoritative for the .EDU domain. A Web interface for the .EDU EDUCAUSE Whois Server is available at: http://whois.educause.net By submitting a Whois query, you agree that this information will not be used to allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of unsolicited commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail. The use of electronic processes to harvest information from this server is generally prohibited except as reasonably necessary to register or modify .edu domain names. You may use "%" as a wildcard in your search. For further information regarding the use of this WHOIS server, please type: help -------------------------- Domain Name: SC.EDU Registrant: University of South Carolina 1244 Blossom Street Columbia, SC 29208 UNITED STATES Administrative Contact: Jeff Farnham Director, University Technology Services University of South Carolina 1244 Blossom Street Columbia, SC 29208 UNITED STATES (803) 777-7474 Technical Contact: Ken Sallenger University of South Carolina 1244 Blossom ST Columbia, SC 29208 UNITED STATES (803) 777-9335 Name Servers: NS0.DNSMADEEASY.COM NS1.DNSMADEEASY.COM NS2.DNSMADEEASY.COM NS3.DNSMADEEASY.COM NS4.DNSMADEEASY.COM Domain record activated: 07-Mar-1995 Domain record last updated: 27-Jul-2016 Domain expires: 31-Jul-2017 |
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 sc.edu:
Here is a list of some more reports for you to check. If you found this one on sc.edu useful, the following list will be of interest to you, too:
This list contains 370 top level domain variantions for sc.edu domain name: