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) | USA TODAY: Latest World and US News - USATODAY.com | Sticking to between 50-60 characters for meta title length is a good idea. The length of this website's meta title is 51. |
Website meta description | USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR. | The length of the meta description is 161 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Metadata keywords | usa today, usatoday, world news, international news, us news, national news | 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 26.4685 seconds | It takes too long to load the website – we would suggest the webmaster to look into it. |
Rank by Alexa | 404 | The website is very well known according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 379, after last update | According to Quantcast, the website is very well known. |
Homepage links | Approximately 409 | Such an amount of links on a homepage might raise a question or two. |
Pages linking back | We counted 15,701 | A great amount of backlinks. |
Size of page HTML | 318.9KB | 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 151.101.114.62. | Due to lack of data, we can't provide a meaningful insight. |
Status of domain | Date of registry: 1994-04-29 00:00:00 | Due to lack of data, we can't provide a meaningful insight. usatoday.com has been registered at MARKMONITOR INC. |
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 | News News Newspapers Regional United States |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | abcnews.go.com cbsnews.com cnn.com drudgereport.com forbes.com foxnews.com huffingtonpost.com latimes.com news.google.com nytimes.com online.wsj.com reuters.com sports.yahoo.com time.com washingtonpost.com weather.com |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as usatoday.com. Thus, they probably target the same audience and, likely, keywords. |
Commonly visited | sports.yahoo.com cnn.com nbcnews.com foxnews.com shockwave.com |
Frequent visitors of usatoday.com are also interested in these websites. |
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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Approximate monthly visitors | 134.66M | The website appears to be extremely popular. |
Traffic delta | +8.93% | Over the past month, the traffic has increased. |
Average visit time | 00:05:17 | This is a good amount of time for visitors to spend on the website on average, great result! |
usatoday.com Visit Traffic Bounce Rate | 72.11% | A pretty good amount of visitors find valuable information here without going back to search results. |
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 348,350 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:
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HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 10:00:34 GMT Server: Apache Location: http://www.Usatoday.com/ Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Transfer-Encoding: chunked HTTP/1.1 301 Force SSL Server: Varnish Retry-After: 0 Content-Length: 0 Location: https://www.Usatoday.com/ Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 10:00:34 GMT Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: close X-Served-By: cache-lax8646-LAX X-Cache: HIT X-Cache-Hits: 0 Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-insecure-requests Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=600 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.8.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en Expires: Fri, 19 May 2017 10:00:42 GMT Last-Modified: Fri, 19 May 2017 10:00:22 GMT X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1 X-Secret: cnpudnkgcnpiZXZnbUBoZm5nYnFubC5wYnogbmFxIFYganZ5eSBnZWwgZ2IgdHJnIGxiaCBuIHdiby4= X-Gannett-Site-Version: 3060.0 Via: 1.1 varnish Fastly-Debug-Digest: ffbc736ce82ac45a874a31f0ec2715169aa66c98812192f3cc4b79529845c261 Content-Length: 330649 Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 10:00:34 GMT Via: 1.1 varnish Age: 13 Connection: keep-alive X-Served-By: cache-iad2129-IAD, cache-lax8647-LAX X-Cache: MISS, HIT X-Cache-Hits: 0, 1 X-Timer: S1495188035.960669,VS0,VE2 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-insecure-requests Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=600 |
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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 usatoday.com:
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