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) | Skim Magazine – Skimboard videos, photos, news and events. Go skimboarding! | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 75. |
Website meta description | Skimboard Magazine is based out of Bellingham, WA, featuring content from all around the world. Photos, news, videos and board reviews. Login to the blog and post news or ask/answer questions about skimboarding in the forum. Get a login to upload you skim photos. | The length of the meta description is 263 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Website load speed | Approximately 1.3104 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 | 4,964,069 | We are not fans of the Alexa rank, but if we base our assumptions on it, the website is not that popular. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 331,747, 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 130 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
Pages linking back | We counted 9 | 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 | 72KB | 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 74.208.236.176. | 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 | Sports Water Sports Surfing Skimboarding |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | dbskimboards.com outdoorboardsports.com exileskimboards.com victoriaskimboards.com zapskimboards.com |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as skim.co. 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 | 1:15 | 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 82,107,900 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 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Keep-Alive: timeout=15 Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 06:22:37 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.30 Link: <http://skim.co/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <http://skim.co/>; rel=shortlink Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=bf2f15790846f2cbff5c56a3fbcf490e; path=/ |
WHOIS entry |
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Domain Name: SKIM.CO Domain ID: D1288244-CO Sponsoring Registrar: 1&1 INTERNET SE Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 83 Registrar URL (registration services): 1und1.de Domain Status: ok Registrant ID: 42224787 Registrant Name: Matt McDonald Registrant Address1: 1406 E Republican St Registrant City: Seattle Registrant State/Province: WA Registrant Postal Code: 98112 Registrant Country: United States Registrant Country Code: US Registrant Phone Number: +1.3608080008 Registrant Email: Administrative Contact ID: 42224787 Administrative Contact Name: Matt McDonald Administrative Contact Address1: 1406 E Republican St Administrative Contact City: Seattle Administrative Contact State/Province: WA Administrative Contact Postal Code: 98112 Administrative Contact Country: United States Administrative Contact Country Code: US Administrative Contact Phone Number: +1.3608080008 Administrative Contact Email: Billing Contact ID: 33216193 Billing Contact Name: Hostmaster ONEANDONE Billing Contact Organization: 1&1 Internet Inc. Billing Contact Address1: 701 Lee Rd. Billing Contact Address2: Suite 300 Billing Contact City: Chesterbrook Billing Contact State/Province: PA Billing Contact Postal Code: 19087 Billing Contact Country: United States Billing Contact Country Code: US Billing Contact Phone Number: +1.8774612631 Billing Contact Facsimile Number: +1.6105601501 Billing Contact Email: Technical Contact ID: 33216193 Technical Contact Name: Hostmaster ONEANDONE Technical Contact Organization: 1&1 Internet Inc. Technical Contact Address1: 701 Lee Rd. Technical Contact Address2: Suite 300 Technical Contact City: Chesterbrook Technical Contact State/Province: PA Technical Contact Postal Code: 19087 Technical Contact Country: United States Technical Contact Country Code: US Technical Contact Phone Number: +1.8774612631 Technical Contact Facsimile Number: +1.6105601501 Technical Contact Email: Name Server: NS51.1AND1.COM Name Server: NS52.1AND1.COM Created by Registrar: 1&1 INTERNET SE Last Updated by Registrar: 1&1 INTERNET SE Domain Registration Date: Tue Jul 20 21:03:39 GMT 2010 Domain Expiration Date: Wed Jul 19 23:59:59 GMT 2017 Domain Last Updated Date: Tue Jul 19 08:29:53 GMT 2016 DNSSEC: false >>>> Whois database was last updated on: Fri Apr 07 17:45:53 GMT 2017 <<<< .CO Internet, S.A.S., the Administrator for .CO, has collected this information for the WHOIS database through Accredited Registrars. This information is provided to you for informational purposes only and is designed to assist persons in determining contents of a domain name registration record in the .CO Internet registry database. .CO Internet makes this information available to you "as is" and does not guarantee its accuracy. By submitting a WHOIS query, you agree that you will use this data only for lawful purposes and that, under no circumstances will you use this data: (1) to allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via direct mail, electronic mail, or by telephone; (2) in contravention of any applicable data and privacy protection laws; or (3) to enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply to the registry (or its systems). Compilation, repackaging, dissemination, or other use of the WHOIS database in its entirety, or of a substantial portion thereof, is not allowed without .CO Internet's prior written permission. .CO Internet reserves the right to modify or change these conditions at any time without prior or subsequent notification of any kind. By executing this query, in any manner whatsoever, you agree to abide by these terms. In some limited cases, domains that might appear as available in whois might not actually be available as they could be already registered and the whois not yet updated and/or they could be part of the Restricted list. In this cases, performing a check through your Registrar's (EPP check) will give you the actual status of the domain. Additionally, domains currently or previously used as extensions in 3rd level domains will not be available for registration in the 2nd level. For example, org.co,mil.co,edu.co,com.co,net.co,nom.co,arts.co, firm.co,info.co,int.co,web.co,rec.co,co.co. NOTE: FAILURE TO LOCATE A RECORD IN THE WHOIS DATABASE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF THE AVAILABILITY OF A DOMAIN NAME. All domain names are subject to certain additional domain name registration rules. For details, please visit our site at www.cointernet.co <http://www.cointernet.co>. |
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 skim.co:
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This list contains 370 top level domain variantions for skim.co domain name: