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) | National Weather Service | 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 | Official U.S. weather, marine, fire and aviation forecasts, warnings, meteorological products, climate forecasts and information about meteorology. | The length of the meta description is 147 characters. Google recommends up to around 280-320 characters at the most. |
Website load speed | Approximately 0.834 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 | 1,003 | The website is very well known according to Alexa. Take that for what it's worth. |
Global rank by Quantcast | 303, after last update | According to Quantcast, the website is very well known. |
Homepage links | Approximately 243 | A good amount of links and nothing to worry about. |
Pages linking back | We counted 31,388 | A great amount of backlinks. |
Size of page HTML | 132.1KB | 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 2.17.187.17. | 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 | News Weather Science Earth Sciences Atmospheric Sciences Meteorology Government Agencies North America United States Regional North America United States Government Executive Branch Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service |
These are not only the possible categories the website falls into, but also areas of interest of the main target audience. |
Similar websites | accuweather.com bom.gov.au cnn.com google.com intellicast.com localweathercast.net mapquest.com noaa.gov noaawatch.gov theweathernetwork.com usatoday.com weather.yahoo.com wunderground.com wxusa.com youtube.com yowindow.com |
While we can't speak with a hundred percent certainty, these website seem to fall into the same category as weather.gov. Thus, they probably target the same audience and, likely, keywords. |
Commonly visited | nhc.noaa.gov wunderground.com intellicast.com cyclocane.com accuweather.com |
Frequent visitors of weather.gov are also interested in these websites. |
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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Approximate monthly visitors | 86.44M | Without taking the size of the target audience into account, we would say the website's not that popular. But, again, that is a somewhat superficial assessment - make your own conclusions. |
Traffic delta | -8.07% | The number of visitors has decreased compared to the month before. |
Average visit time | 00:02:35 | Visitors spend a decent amount of time reading the website. |
weather.gov Visit Traffic Bounce Rate | 42.15% | 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 217,884 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 Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.5 X-NIDS-ServerID: www1.mo Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 134825 Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 08:57:02 GMT Connection: keep-alive |
WHOIS entry |
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Domain Name: WEATHER.GOV Status: ACTIVE >>> Last update of whois database: 2017-05-09T08:29:54Z <<< 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 weather.gov:
Here is a list of some more reports for you to check. If you found this one on weather.gov useful, the following list will be of interest to you, too:
This list contains 370 top level domain variantions for weather.gov domain name: