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) | Boston College Home Page | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 24. |
Website meta description | Boston College is a coeducational university with an average student population of 8,700 undergraduates, 4,500 graduate students representing every state and 85 foreign countries. Founded in 1863, it is one of the oldest Jesuit, Catholic universities in the United States. | The length of the meta description is 272 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Website load speed | Approximately 16.1608 seconds | It takes too long to load the website – we would suggest the webmaster to look into it. |
Rank by Alexa | 13,896 | The website is very well known according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 7,702, after last update | According to Quantcast, the website is very well known. |
Homepage links | Approximately 180 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
Pages linking back | We counted 10,378 | A great amount of backlinks. |
Size of page HTML | 61.7KB | If it were up to us, we'd urge the webmaster to improve. The result isn't very good, you see. Just saying. |
Server data | Server seems to be online. IP adress for this domain is 136.167.2.220. | 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 Massachusetts Boston College |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | stata.com statalist.org repec.org bu.edu nd.edu |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as bc.edu. 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 | 3:26 | This is a good amount of time for visitors to spend on the website on average, great result! |
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 10,591,987 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, 10 May 2017 07:04:09 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Wed, 10 May 2017 00:02:48 GMT ETag: "660ddc-faa2-54f20314cb699" Accept-Ranges: bytes Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
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: BC.EDU Registrant: Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 UNITED STATES Administrative Contact: Sami Karachi Boston College St. Clements Hall 248a 140 Commonwealth Ave Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 UNITED STATES (617) 552-6441 sami. Technical Contact: Patricia Thomas Boston College St. Clements Hall 148 140 Commonwealth Ave Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 UNITED STATES (617) 552-8287 tricia. Name Servers: ROCKY.BC.EDU 136.167.2.253 GIDNEY.BC.EDU 136.167.2.73 CAMPDNS.BC.EDU 136.167.37.104 Domain record activated: 01-Feb-1991 Domain record last updated: 22-Mar-2017 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 bc.edu:
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This list contains 370 top level domain variantions for bc.edu domain name: