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) | Federal Trade Commission | Protecting America\'s Consumers | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 63. |
Website meta description | Information on how to file a complaint, consumer protection, antitrust, legal framework, news releases, mission statement, recent decisions, rules and other official contents. FTC is a federal agency that enforces a variety of U.S. antitrust and consumer protection laws, including preventing commercial activities that are unfair or deceptive. | The length of the meta description is 344 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Website load speed | Approximately 1.1247 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 | 12,379 | The website is very well known according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 1,421, after last update | According to Quantcast, the website is very well known. |
Homepage links | Approximately 319 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
Pages linking back | We counted 86,638 | A great amount of backlinks. |
Size of page HTML | 92.9KB | 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 96.6.226.201. | The location of the server is in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The hosting service is provided by a known, trustworthy company. |
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 | Society Issues Fraud Investment Society Law Legal Information Fraud Regional North America United States Government Agencies Independent Federal Trade Commission |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | donotcall.gov experian.com annualcreditreport.com usa.gov equifax.com |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as ftc.gov. 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 | 1:30 | 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 2,191,305 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/1.1 302 Found Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:01:34 GMT Server: Apache Location: https://ftc.gov/ Cache-Control: max-age=1209600 Expires: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:01:34 GMT Content-Length: 200 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:01:34 GMT Server: Apache Location: https://www.ftc.gov/ Cache-Control: max-age=1209600 Expires: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:01:34 GMT Content-Length: 228 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Pad: avoid browser bug HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache X-Drupal-Cache: HIT ETag: "1454405648-0" X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: SameOrigin Content-Language: en X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge X-Generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org) Last-Modified: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 09:34:08 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Cache-Control: public, max-age=300 Expires: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:06:35 GMT Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:01:35 GMT Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Connection: Transfer-Encoding |
WHOIS entry |
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% DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready Domain Name: FTC.GOV Status: ACTIVE >>> Last update of whois database: 2016-02-02T11:01:27Z <<< Please be advised that this whois server only contains information pertaining to the .GOV domain. For information for other domains please use the whois server at RS.INTERNIC.NET. |
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 ftc.gov:
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