Look through the key statistics analysis before diving in deeper into our report:
Parameter | Current result | Assessment |
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Meta title | IOL | Breaking News | South Africa News | World News | Sport | Business | Entertainment | IOL.co.za | 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 99 characters long. |
Description | South Africa's Premier Online News Source. Discover the world of IOL, News South Africa, Sport, Business, Financial, World News, Entertainment, Technology, Motoring, Travel, Property, Classifieds and more. | This meta description is 205 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. |
Site speed | Around 2.165 seconds | Website ranking and usability can be greatly improved by reducing the time it takes to load it. |
Alexa global rank | 8433, as last checked | Based on information provided by Alexa, we can assume the website is well known. |
Quantcast | Current rank, according to our database, is at 21866 | The website seems to enjoy good popularity, according to Quantcast. |
Links on homepage | Around 347 links | This is a well-judged amount of links for a homepage. |
Backlinks amount | Approximately 8568 | Such a great number of backlinks! |
HTML size | 442.4KB | 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 104.20.97.21. | We apologize, but for some reason we were unable to gather enough data to provide a detailed insight at this time. |
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 |
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Related categories | Regional Africa South Africa News and Media |
The website falls into one or all of these categories, and, obviously, these are the areas of interest for the target audience. |
Alternative websites | news24.com timeslive.co.za ewn.co.za citizen.co.za enca.com |
These websites fall into the same categories as iol.co.za, 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 |
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Approximate time on site | 4:01 | Wow, that's a great average result! The website must have some incredible content to keep visitors occupied. |
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 24938867 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:
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:37:58 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Set-Cookie: __cfduid=decba7fe58190c2f671831fb0eb236e091498689478; expires=Thu, 28-Jun-18 22:37:58 GMT; path=/; domain=.iol.co.za; HttpOnly Vary: Accept-Encoding X-Powered-By: Express Expires: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:37:58 GMT Cache-Control: public, max-age=7200 X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett CF-Cache-Status: EXPIRED Server: cloudflare-nginx CF-RAY: 37642237f3126457-FRA |
WHOIS |
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Domain Name: iol.co.za Domain ID: dom_20WSD--1 WHOIS Server: coza-whois12.dns.net.za Updated Date: 2016-07-29T13:43:30Z Creation Date: 1996-08-18T22:00:00Z Registry Expiry Date: 2017-08-18T22:00:00Z Sponsoring Registrar: Internet Solutions Domain Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok Registrant ID: C2245245 Registrant Name: Independent Newspapers Registrant Organization: Independent Newspapers Registrant Street: P O Box 1014 Registrant City: - Registrant State/Province: Registrant Postal Code: 2000 Registrant Country: ZA Registrant Phone: +27.116881000 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Admin ID: C2245245 Admin Name: Independent Newspapers Admin Organization: Independent Newspapers Admin Street: P O Box 1014 Admin City: - Admin State/Province: Admin Postal Code: 2000 Admin Country: ZA Admin Phone: +27.116881000 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: Billing ID: C2245245 Billing Name: Independent Newspapers Billing Organization: Independent Newspapers Billing Street: P O Box 1014 Billing City: - Billing State/Province: Billing Postal Code: 2000 Billing Country: ZA Billing Phone: +27.116881000 Billing Phone Ext: Billing Fax: Billing Fax Ext: Billing Email: Tech ID: C2245245 Tech Name: Independent Newspapers Tech Organization: Independent Newspapers Tech Street: P O Box 1014 Tech City: - Tech State/Province: Tech Postal Code: 2000 Tech Country: ZA Tech Phone: +27.116881000 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: Name Server: coco.ns.cloudflare.com Name Server: pete.ns.cloudflare.com DNSSEC: unsigned >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-07-02T12:15:14Z <<< |
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