Look through the key statistics analysis before diving in deeper into our report:
| Parameter | Current result | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Meta title | Astronomy Magazine - Interactive Star Charts, Planets, Meteors, Comets, Telescopes | As meta title is a ranking factor, it's quite important to stick to search engine recommended length of aroun 50-60 characters. This website's meta title is 82 characters long. |
| Description | Astronomy.com is for anyone who wants to learn more about astronomy events, cosmology, planets, galaxies, asteroids, astrophotography, the Big Bang, black holes, comets, constellations, eclipses, exoplanets, nebulae, meteors, quasars, observing, telescopes, NASA, Hubble, space missions, stargazing, and more | This meta description is 308 characters in length. Google suggests up to 320 characters at the very most to make sure the whole meta description is visible in search results page. |
| <meta> keywords | Amateur astronomy, amature astronomy, andromeda, Antimatter, aperture, apogee, apparition, archaeoastronomy, asterism, asteroid, astronomer, astonomy, astromony, astronamy, astronomy magazine, astronomi, astronomie, astronmy, astronomy mag, astronomy charts, astronomical, astrophotography, astrophysics, atmosphere, big bang, binoculars, black hole, blueshift, bolide, Cassegrain, Cassini, celestial, circumpolar, collimation, comet, conjunction, constellation, corona, cosmic microwave background, cmb, cosmic ray, cosmic-ray, dark adaption, dark adaptation, dark sky, deep sky, drift method, earth, earthlike, earth-like, eclipse, earthshine, exoplanet, extrasolar, eyepiece, finder scope, field of view, f-ratio, galaxy, galaxies, gamma ray, gamma-ray, go-to, go to, goto, gravity, heliocentric, interactive star chart, Kuiper belt, kuyper belt, light speed, light-speed, light year, light-year, light pollution, magnitude, messier, mars, moon, lunar eclipse, mercury, venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, nebula, nebulae, news, nebulosity, NASA, ESA, nova, novae, oort, p Cygni, meteor, shooting star, physics, planetarium, planet, protoplanet, quasar, quasi-stellar object, titan, Enceladus, radial, red giant, redshift, red-shift, scope, sky, skyglow, sky glow, sky guide, skyguide, skywatcher, sky watcher, solar, solar system, space, spcae, sapce, shuttle, spacecraft, space craft, star, star atlas, star chart, starchart, star coordinates, star gazer, stargazer, star gazing, stargazing, star gaze, stargaze, starlike, sun, sunlike, sun-like, telescope, transit, wormhole, zodiac | Strangely enough, meta keywords still seem to be used. We would not go down that road unless very carefully - meta keywords have not been known as a positive ranking factor for a while now. |
| Site speed | Around 2.857 seconds | Website ranking and usability can be greatly improved by reducing the time it takes to load it. |
| Alexa global rank | 60774, as last checked | According to Alexa and the Global rank, the site is quite well known. |
| Quantcast | Current rank, according to our database, is at 9722 | The website is very well known according to QUANTCAST. |
| Links on homepage | Around 374 links | This is a well-judged amount of links for a homepage. |
| Backlinks amount | Approximately 3584 | Such a great number of backlinks! |
| HTML size | 83.9KB | Ah. Well. We were hoping for better results... We would urge the website owners to improve load speed as soon as possible. |
| Website host server overview | Server status: online. Server IP address for this website is 173.226.48.53. | We apologize, but for some reason we were unable to gather enough data to provide a detailed insight at this time. |
| Main domain information | Registered on: 1995-01-10 00:00:00 | We apologize, but for some reason we were unable to gather enough data to provide a detailed insight at this time. The website domain address is currently registered at NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. |
If the basic information we presented you with above is not enough, get ready to dive in much deeper!
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.
| Parameter | Current result | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Related categories | Science Astronomy Publications Magazines Regional Asia Singapore Science and Environment Astronomy |
The website falls into one or all of these categories, and, obviously, these are the areas of interest for the target audience. |
| Alternative websites | skyandtelescope.com eclipse2017.org greatamericaneclipse.com earthsky.org astronomynow.com |
These websites fall into the same categories as astronomy.com, more or less. By extension, they compete with the analysed website for the same target audience. |
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.
| Parameter | Current result | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Approximate time on site | 1:55 | Pretty good for an average time spent, wouldn't you say? |
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.
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 9977715 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.
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.
What follows is certainly very geeky, but informative for the knowing. Dig in:
| Header detail |
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Expires: -1 Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5 Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=hulwl1cqiiim0njbrapp3c50; path=/; HttpOnly X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 18:56:06 GMT Content-Length: 85585 Set-Cookie: NSC_xxx.Btuspopnz.dpn_IUUQ_WJQ=ffffffffc3a0febe45525d5f4f58455e445a4a423660;path=/;httponly |
| WHOIS |
|---|
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Server Name: ASTRONOMY.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
IP Address: 66.226.72.11
Registrar: INSTRA CORPORATION PTY, LTD.
Whois Server: whois.instra.net
Referral URL: http://www.instra.com
Domain Name: ASTRONOMY.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 2
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://networksolutions.com
Name Server: DNS4.KALMBACH.COM
Name Server: VMDNS2.KALMBACH.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 05-may-2015
Creation Date: 10-jan-1995
Expiration Date: 09-jan-2018
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Domain Name: ASTRONOMY.COM
Registry Domain ID: 695163_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrar URL: http://networksolutions.com
Updated Date: 2017-03-05T14:56:35Z
Creation Date: 1995-01-10T05:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Registrar IANA ID: 2
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8003337680
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Kalmbach Publishing Co.
Registrant Organization: Kalmbach Publishing Co.
Registrant Street: 21027 CROSSROADS CIR
Registrant City: WAUKESHA
Registrant State/Province: WI
Registrant Postal Code: 53186-4055
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.2627968776
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +1.2627961615
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: admin, Domain
Admin Organization: Kalmbach
Admin Street: 21027 crossroads circle
Admin City: Waukesha
Admin State/Province: WI
Admin Postal Code: 53187
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.2627968776
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email:
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Kalmbach Publishing
Tech Organization: Kalmbach Publishing
Tech Street: 21027 CROSSROADS CIR
Tech City: WAUKESHA
Tech State/Province: WI
Tech Postal Code: 53186-4055
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.2627968776
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: +1.2627961615
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email:
Name Server: VMDNS2.KALMBACH.COM
Name Server: DNS4.KALMBACH.COM
DNSSEC: Unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-05-01T05:41:31Z <<<
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