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Website Evaluation and Review In-Depth

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

bu.edu 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.

bu.edu 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 1.322 seconds. A very good result, this. Remember, search engines such as Google place a lot of their website ratings on its speed.
• The page HTML weighs approximately 22 kilobytes. Such an amount is nothing to worry about.
• The homepage of the website contains at least 4 images. Such an amount can be considered spot on and should not impact the load speed of the website in any negative way.
• Around 20 server requests have been made before the webpage was fully loaded. This is a good number of server requests. As every request made increases the time it takes to load the page, such a low amount of requests probably improves page load time.

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, bu.edu takes up 4033 place. This information was retrieved on 2018-01-15.
• The best rank given to this website was 2538, given on 2017-11-11.
• Over the last 90 days or so, the rank has changed by -756.
• On the other hand, the worst rank this website was given is 10127 on 2014-07-27.
• The average rank, month after month, is around 4888 for bu.edu.
• In United States, where is the main target audience of the website, it ranks in 1007 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 4569600 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, bu.edu takes up 4281 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 3584 was recorded on 2013-11-19 by Quantcast.
• As for the worst position of 8095, this dark day was on 2014-05-30.

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 128.197.26.34.
• 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: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 10:06:24 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Set-Cookie: isMobile=false_1.2; path=/; domain=.bu.edu
Set-Cookie: wantsMobile=false_1.2_default; path=/; domain=.bu.edu
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.16RC1
Vary: Cookie,Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Link: <http://www.bu.edu/info/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
Link: <http://www.bu.edu/info/?p=90>; rel=shortlink
Last-Modified: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 10:06:24 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=360, must-revalidate
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Via: 1.0 www.bu.edu
X-BU-Main-Uniqueid: Wf7ioArxGl8AAF82EVEAAAHc
X-BU-Duration: D=209510
X-BU-Backend: niscms http://ist-wp-app-prod101.bu.edu
Connection: close

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Domain Name: BU.EDU
Registrant:
Boston University
Information Services & Technology
111 Cummington Mall
Boston, MA 02215-2411
UNITED STATES
Administrative Contact:
Network Operations Center
Boston University
Information Services & Technology
111 Cummington Mall
Boston, MA 02215
UNITED STATES
(617) 353-4357

Technical Contact:
Network Operations Center
Boston University
Information Services & Technology
111 Cummington Mall
Boston, MA 02215
UNITED STATES
(617) 353-4357

Name Servers:
EDNS01.BU.EDU      128.197.253.182
EDNS02.BU.EDU      168.122.254.62
EDNS03.BU.EDU      192.12.188.130
Domain record activated:    25-Mar-1986
Domain record last updated: 07-Jul-2016
Domain expires:             31-Jul-2017