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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!

merit.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.

Website speed analysis

• The website load in around 2.6083 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 81.5 kilobytes. Such an amount is nothing to worry about.
• The homepage of the website contains at least 13 images. Such an amount can be considered spot on and should not impact the load speed of the website in any negative way.
• Around 66 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, merit.edu takes up 979148 place. This information was retrieved on 2018-01-28.
• The best rank given to this website was 332583, given on 2015-02-26.
• Over the last 90 days or so, the rank has changed by 40791.
• On the other hand, the worst rank this website was given is 999189 on 2017-08-06.
• The average rank, month after month, is around 623741 for merit.edu.

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 234024472 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, merit.edu takes up 310113 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 94958 was recorded on 2013-12-17 by Quantcast.
• As for the worst position of 567466, this dark day was on 2014-08-07.

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 104.20.28.65.
• The physical location of the server itself is in Absecon, New Jersey, United States. Location zip code is 8205.
• 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: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:41:53 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d4d17926a1df5ea7727a8f690728a8a9c1515854512; expires=Sun, 13-Jan-19 14:41:52 GMT; path=/; domain=.merit.edu; HttpOnly
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Link: <https://www.merit.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
Link: <https://www.merit.edu/?p=4928>; rel=shortlink
X-Cacheable: SHORT
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
Cache-Control: max-age=600, must-revalidate
X-Cache: MISS
X-Pass-Why: 
X-Cache-Group: normal
X-Type: default
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=0; preload
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Server: cloudflare-nginx
CF-RAY: 3dc91e6d7c692360-FRA

This Registry database contains ONLY .EDU domains.
The data in the EDUCAUSE Whois database is provided
by EDUCAUSE for information purposes in order to
assist in the process of obtaining information about
or related to .edu domain registration records.
The EDUCAUSE Whois database is authoritative for the
.EDU domain.
A Web interface for the .EDU EDUCAUSE Whois Server is
available at: http://whois.educause.net
By submitting a Whois query, you agree that this information
will not be used to allow, enable, or otherwise support
the transmission of unsolicited commercial advertising or
solicitations via e-mail.  The use of electronic processes to
harvest information from this server is generally prohibited
except as reasonably necessary to register or modify .edu
domain names.
You may use "%" as a wildcard in your search. For further
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type: help
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Domain Name: MERIT.EDU
Registrant:
Merit Network Inc
1000 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 200
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-6794
UNITED STATES
Administrative Contact:
Domain Name Billing
Domain Name BIlling
Merit Network Inc.
1000 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 200
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-6794
UNITED STATES
(734) 527-5700

Technical Contact:
Domain Name Technical Support
Merit Network Inc.
1000 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 200
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-6794
UNITED STATES
(734) 527-5700

Name Servers:
DNS1.MERIT.NET
DNS2.MERIT.NET
DNS3.MERIT.NET
Domain record activated:    03-Oct-1986
Domain record last updated: 03-Feb-2009
Domain expires:             31-Jul-2017