Perhaps the most relevant statistics data that we could gather is presented here:
| Data type/Website parameter | Status or value | Our findings |
|---|---|---|
| Site title (meta) | Redirecting | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 11. |
| Website meta description | Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is used by Google products to create short URLs that can be easily shared, tweeted, or emailed to friends. | The length of the meta description is 137 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
| Website load speed | Approximately 0.2117 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 | 828 | The website is very well known according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth. |
| Global rank by Quantcast | 11,325, after last update | According to Quantcast, the website is very well known. |
| Homepage links | Approximately 28 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
| Pages linking back | We counted 115,962 | A great amount of backlinks. |
| Size of page HTML | 114.1KB | 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 172.217.12.174. | The location of the server is in Mountain View, California, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Similar websites | bitly.com wordpress.org themeforest.net godaddy.com moz.com |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as goo.gl. Thus, they probably target the same audience and, likely, keywords. |
Website safety is a key factor that should not be underestimated. After all, our computers and personal information stored on them are not as secure as one might think - the recent flaws found in microprocessors only confirm this. There is more than one source for finding out if a website is safe to visit or not, some more dependable than others. In this section we'll try to cover all the bases, if at all possible.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Average visit time | 2:21 | 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 7,478,062 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 Moved Temporarily Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=10886400; Location: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=urlshortener&continue=http://goo.gl/?authed%3D1&followup=http://goo.gl/?authed%3D1&passive=true&go=true Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:20:18 GMT Expires: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:20:18 GMT Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Server: GSE Set-Cookie: authed=1;Path=/ Accept-Ranges: none Vary: Accept-Encoding Transfer-Encoding: chunked HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Location: https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=urlshortener&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2F%3Fauthed%3D1&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2F%3Fauthed%3D1&passive=true&go=true Content-Length: 370 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:20:18 GMT Expires: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:20:18 GMT Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Server: GSE Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=1 Alt-Svc: quic="www.google.com:443"; ma=600; v="30,29,28,27,26,25",quic=":443"; ma=600; v="30,29,28,27,26,25" HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=10893354; includeSubDomains X-Frame-Options: DENY Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:20:18 GMT Expires: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:20:18 GMT Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Content-Length: 1491 Server: GSE Set-Cookie: GAPS=1:33e1lPtG59-EVEjkyGmWdd8Loas6TQ:INQ4KDx5Yx4bgGg7;Path=/;Expires=Thu, 25-Jan-2018 18:20:18 GMT;Secure;HttpOnly;Priority=HIGH Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=1 Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=604800; v="30,29,28,27,26,25" |
| WHOIS entry |
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Domain Name: goo.gl Domain ID: Imp619-GL WHOIS Server: Referral URL: Updated Date: 2015-12-09T21:54:18.270Z Creation Date: 2005-06-22T02:00:00.000Z Registry Expiry Date: 2017-01-01T03:00:00.000Z Sponsoring Registrar: MarkMonitor Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited Domain Status: ok Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited Registrant ID: 4738-GL Registrant Name: Google Inc. Registrant Street: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Registrant City: Mountain View Registrant State/Province: CA Registrant Postal Code: 94043 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.6303300100 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: +1.6506188571 Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: [email protected] Name Server: ns1.google.com Name Server: ns2.google.com Name Server: ns3.google.com Name Server: ns4.google.com DNSSEC: unsigned >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-01-26T17:28:29.563Z <<< |
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 goo.gl:
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