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) | Sri Lanka News | Newsfirst Breaking News | Official Site | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 56. |
Website meta description | Sri Lankas first international news channel, broadcasting in Sinhalese, Tamil and English across three TV channels, four radio channels and streamed live at www.newsfirst.lk. | The length of the meta description is 174 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Metadata keywords | sri Lanka news, breaking news videos, newsfirst sri lanka, english, tamil, sinhala, political, local, business, sports, entertainment, health, sri lanka news, sri lanka breaking news, sri lanka news channel, watch tv news, sri lanka tv channels, latest news from sri lanka, ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්රවෘත්ති, ප්රවෘත්ති වාර්තාකරණයේ ප්රමුඛයා, නිව්ස් ෆස්ට්, ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රවෘත්ති විකාශය, රූපවාහිනී පුවත් | 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 7.9643 seconds | It takes too long to load the website – we would suggest the webmaster to look into it. |
Rank by Alexa | 84,591 | The site is among the more popular ones, according to Alexa. How accurate the rank is remains a question. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 663,528, 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 204 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
Pages linking back | We counted 67 | 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 | 170.6KB | 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 70.32.95.43. | 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 | Regional Asia Sri Lanka News and Media |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | hirunews.lk adaderana.lk dailymirror.lk news.lk dailynews.lk |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as newsfirst.lk. 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 |
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Average visit time | 2:14 | 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 552,908,404 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 Server: nginx Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 22:06:58 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 283 Connection: keep-alive Location: http://newsfirst.lk/english/index.php HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: nginx Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 22:06:58 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 0 Connection: keep-alive Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache X-Pingback: http://newsfirst.lk/english/xmlrpc.php Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=qmjsieluhu0gql3g0jpa9g0ka6; path=/ Location: http://newsfirst.lk/english/ X-Powered-By: PleskLin MS-Author-Via: DAV HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 22:07:00 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache X-Pingback: http://newsfirst.lk/english/xmlrpc.php Link: <http://newsfirst.lk/english/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <http://wp.me/P5qlpD-aF>; rel=shortlink Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=ioqf3s12v2g02shcrsl0i6dd76; path=/ X-Powered-By: PleskLin MS-Author-Via: DAV |
WHOIS entry |
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% IANA WHOIS server % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org % This query returned 1 object domain: LK organisation: Council for Information Technology organisation: LK Domain Registrar address: 9 Clifford Avenue address: Colombo 00300 address: Sri Lanka contact: administrative name: Gihan Dias organisation: LK Domain Registry address: 545/4 de Soysa Rd., address: Molpe, address: Moratuwa 10400 address: Sri Lanka phone: +94 11 4 216 065 fax-no: +94 11 2 650 805 e-mail: [email protected] contact: technical name: Hostmaster organisation: LK Domain Registry address: 545/4 de Soysa Rd., address: Molpe, address: Moratuwa 10400 address: Sri Lanka phone: +94 11 4 216 061 fax-no: +94 112 650 805 e-mail: [email protected] nserver: C.NIC.LK 203.143.29.3 2405:5400:3:1:203:143:29:3 nserver: D.NIC.LK 123.231.6.18 nserver: L.NIC.LK 192.248.8.17 nserver: M.NIC.LK 202.129.235.229 nserver: NS1.AC.LK 192.248.1.162 2401:dd00:1:0:0:0:0:162 nserver: P.NIC.LK 2001:500:14:6027:ad:0:0:1 204.61.216.27 nserver: PENDRAGON.CS.PURDUE.EDU 128.10.2.5 nserver: RIPE.NIC.LK 193.0.9.88 2001:67c:e0:0:0:0:0:88 nserver: T.NIC.LK 203.94.66.129 ds-rdata: 181 5 1 A1907F85D49081239389C216912B8937D0ECEB3D ds-rdata: 181 5 2 87516D56B697CB3F7A7C3EB594EE0E16AE509D16A503089F4FBD4F347B336F93 status: ACTIVE remarks: Registration information: http://www.nic.lk/ created: 1990-06-15 changed: 2014-06-17 source: IANA |
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 newsfirst.lk:
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