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If the basic information we presented you with above is not enough, get ready to dive in much deeper!

ar.gov In-Depth

Now that the numbers are taken care of, we can go deeper and try to analyse the website from a user's perspective. More specifically, let's see if we can identify the target audience as well as a few related websites and categories.

ar.gov Traffic Overview

Trying to acquire very accurate visitor data is immensely difficult and can only be done when given direct access to the server. However, there are ways to get approximate numbers.
The numbers themselves probably say enough, but we'll add some insight where possible.

Website speed analysis

• The website load in around 6.9605 seconds. Ah. Well. We were hoping for better results... We would urge the website owners to improve load speed as soon as possible.
• The page HTML weighs approximately 63.4 kilobytes. Such an amount is nothing to worry about.
• The homepage of the website contains at least 54 images. Such an amount of images to have on a homepage is alright, so long as they are well compressed.
• Around 101 server requests have been made before the webpage was fully loaded. For the sake of users and ranking in search results, we hope this gets improved soon. Succife to say, we are not too enthusiastic about such a high number of server requests.

Detailed Alexa rank overview

ALEXA rating is based on the number of visitors a given page receives. The higher the visitor count, the higher the rating. Currently, ALEXA has over 4 million websites indexed. If you sense cynicism in our words, you're not mistaken - we think Alexa rating is overrated, to put it mildly. A website's worth (and contextual popularity) is more than the sum of the views. So take the rank with a grain of salt.

• Among all the websites ranked on Alexa, ar.gov takes up 561138 place. This information was retrieved on 2018-01-17.
• The best rank given to this website was 285665, given on 2016-07-14.
• Over the last 90 days or so, the rank has changed by -44662.
• On the other hand, the worst rank this website was given is 991596 on 2014-04-25.
• The average rank, month after month, is around 508875 for ar.gov.
• In United States, where is the main target audience of the website, it ranks in 141142 place.

QUANTCAST ranking up close

QUANTCAST is a data processing company that mostly gathers information for advertising companies. It specializes in real-time audience analysis and, as you may have gathered, is really quite similar to Alexa, if perhaps not as infamous. To our knowledge, the company has rated and ranked approximately 129160273 websites so far. There is always a caveat with these sort of ranking systems - they don't really take any context into account. As such, their usefulness is debatable at best. Don't overthink this rank - it's just a number, really.

• From what we know, ar.gov takes up 82054 place in terms of traffic among all the other indexed websites, according to Quantcast. This rank was retrieved on 2015-02-05.
• The all-time best rank of 31646 was recorded on 2014-04-22 by Quantcast.
• As for the worst position of 988734, this dark day was on 2013-12-19.

Host Server Details

Servers are physical storage devices that contain all the files and databases associated with a specific website, sometimes more than one. At times, a server makes up several virtual devices - separate servers used for shared hosting (tends to be cheaper). Entering website address into the address bar of your browser starts the request process during which your browser contacts the server and asks for specific files and database entries in order to display the requested website.

• Server IP for this website is 66.225.239.2.
• Server status: online.

WHOIS and HTTP header

What follows is certainly very geeky, but informative for the knowing. Dig in:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:02:41 GMT
Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Last-Modified: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:02:43 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: 1.1 www.arkansas.gov
X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN
ina-bwaf: 1
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=qijjd9bthjqb90r2k3f73epjp6; path=/; HttpOnly
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Set-Cookie: exp_last_visit=1183230161; expires=Wed, 27-Jun-2018 19:02:41 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: exp_last_activity=1498590161; expires=Wed, 27-Jun-2018 19:02:41 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: exp_tracker=a%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A5%3A%22index%22%3B%7D; path=/
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Domain Name: AR.GOV
Status: ACTIVE
>>> Last update of whois database: 2017-05-12T23:52:10Z <<<
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.