Look through the key statistics analysis before diving in deeper into our report:
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Meta title | Mission US | THIRTEEN | 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 21 characters long. |
Description | Developed for use in middle and high school classrooms, Mission US engages students in the study of transformational moments in American history. Each mission consists of an interactive game and a set of curriculum materials that are aligned to national standards and feature document-based activities. The game immerses players in rich, historical settings and then empowers them to make choices that illuminate how ordinary people experienced the past. The Educator's Guide provides a wealth of resources and activities for both teachers and students, including primary source documents that show the broader social, political, and economic context of events and perspectives featured in the game. Since some of the topics Mission US explores are difficult, it is recommended that teachers/parents preview the mission to make sure it is appropriate for their students/children. LEARNING OBJECTIVESThe most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that only 17% of eighth graders perform at or above the proficient level in American history. Mission US aims to get students to care about history by seeing it through the eyes of peers from the past. The goals of Mission US are to help students:• Learn how Americans struggled to realize the ideals of liberty and equality• Understand the role of ordinary men and women, including young people, in history• Develop historical empathy • Build understanding and critical perception to think like an historian.RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTWNET collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to create Mission US. Much planning, research, review, and testing with diverse groups of teachers and students goes into the development and creation of each mission and its companion educational materials. Reflecting the latest academic scholarship and incorporating primary source documents, the history content for each mission is developed by a team of historians at the American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning (ASHP), a research center at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Scholars with expertise in each era serve as advisors. Throughout the development process, researchers from the Center for Children and Technology/Education Development Center conduct focus group testing with students and teachers that helps the game development team address misconceptions about the content each mission explores. The game developer is Electric Funstuff, a company with extensive educational technology experience.SERIOUS GAMINGMission US is part of a growing body of "serious games" that immerse users in historical and contemporary problems in ways that encourage perspective-taking, discussion, and weighing of multiple kinds of evidence. Research has shown that, by assuming the roles of peers from the past, students develop a more personal, memorable, and meaningful connection with complex historical content and context. MISSIONS“For Crown or Colony?” puts players in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a printer’s apprentice in 1770 Boston. They encounter both Patriots and Loyalists, and when rising tensions result in the Boston Massacre, they must choose where their loyalties lie. In “Flight to Freedom,” players take on the role of Lucy, a 14-year-old enslaved in Kentucky. As they navigate her escape and journey to Ohio, they discover that life in the “free” North is dangerous and difficult. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act threatens all African Americans in the North and brings new urgency to the anti-slavery movement.In “A Cheyenne Odyssey,” players become Little Fox, a Northern Cheyenne boy whose life is changed by the encroachment of white settlers, railroads, and U.S. military expeditions. As buffalo diminish and the U.S. expands westward, players experience the Cheyenne's persistence through conflict and national transformation.In “City of Immigrants,” players navigate New York’s Lower East Side as Lena, a young Jewish immigrant from Russia. Trying to save money to bring her parents to America, she works long hours in a factory for little money and gets caught up in the growing labor movement. In “Up from the Dust,” players take on the roles of twins Frank and Ginny Dunn, whose family wheat farm is devastated by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. As they experience the hardships of the 1930s, players learn about Americans’ strategies for survival – as individuals, communities, and a nation. “Up from the Dust” will be available on iPad in fall 2016. For more information, visit the Help page. Get updates about Mission US on Facebook. To share your feedback, email us via the contact form on this site. | This meta description is 4808 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 | Mission US, United States history, American history, education, videogames, online games, role playing, teachers, students, Thirteen, WNET, colonial boston, For Crown or Colony | 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 0.8856 seconds | The website load speed is rather good. |
Alexa global rank | 562149, as last checked | Based on Alexa Global, we can assume the website is not very popular. Mind you, Alexa's worth is questionable at best. |
Quantcast | Current rank, according to our database, is at 857845 | Quantcast does not rank this website very high, which should in theory mean it's not that popular. Having said that, popularity is context-dependant, so take this with a grain of salt. |
Links on homepage | Around 43 links | This is a well-judged amount of links for a homepage. |
Backlinks amount | Approximately 531 | A good amount of backlinks. |
HTML size | 18.1KB | A very good result, this. Remember, search engines such as Google place a lot of their website ratings on its speed. |
Website host server overview | Server status: online. Server IP address for this website is 52.6.101.109. | 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.
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Alternative websites | mission-us.com usmission.org gamesforchange.org ht-sd.org mission.com |
These websites fall into the same categories as mission-us.org, 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.
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Approximate time on site | 3:33 | 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 346673698 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 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Status: 200 OK Cache-Control: max-age=0 ETag: W/"817634905a0ab7b2a5a92977792adf4f" X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Runtime: 0.009767 X-Request-Id: 855b25e0-c2d5-476f-8d0d-7301c26f1718 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:55:24 GMT X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger 5.0.29 Server: nginx + Phusion Passenger 5.0.14 Expires: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:55:24 GMT Cache-Control: public |
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Domain Name: MISSION-US.ORG Registry Domain ID: D156759594-LROR Registrar WHOIS Server: Registrar URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Updated Date: 2016-07-01T14:58:32Z Creation Date: 2009-07-29T18:34:01Z Registry Expiry Date: 2018-07-29T18:34:01Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC Registrar IANA ID: 2 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: Reseller: Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: C2742661-LROR Registrant Name: Thirteen/WNET Registrant Organization: Thirteen/WNET Registrant Street: 825 8TH AVE 14TH FL Registrant Street: 14th floor Registrant City: New York Registrant State/Province: NY Registrant Postal Code: 10019-7416 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.2125602742 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: +1.2125602899 Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Registry Admin ID: C2742661-LROR Admin Name: Thirteen/WNET Admin Organization: Thirteen/WNET Admin Street: 825 8TH AVE 14TH FL Admin Street: 14th floor Admin City: New York Admin State/Province: NY Admin Postal Code: 10019-7416 Admin Country: US Admin Phone: +1.2125602742 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: +1.2125602899 Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: Registry Tech ID: C2742661-LROR Tech Name: Thirteen/WNET Tech Organization: Thirteen/WNET Tech Street: 825 8TH AVE 14TH FL Tech Street: 14th floor Tech City: New York Tech State/Province: NY Tech Postal Code: 10019-7416 Tech Country: US Tech Phone: +1.2125602742 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: +1.2125602899 Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: Name Server: NS-BACK.THIRTEEN.ORG Name Server: NS1.THIRTEEN.ORG DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-04-10T03:06:59Z <<< For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp Access to Public Interest Registry WHOIS information is provided to assist persons in determining the contents of a domain name registration record in the Public Interest Registry registry database. The data in this record is provided by Public Interest Registry for informational purposes only, and Public Interest Registry does not guarantee its accuracy. This service is intended only for query-based access. You agree that you will use this data only for lawful purposes and that, under no circumstances will you use this data to: (a) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission by e-mail, telephone, or facsimile of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations to entities other than the data recipient's own existing customers; or (b) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that send queries or data to the systems of Registry Operator, a Registrar, or Afilias except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations. All rights reserved. Public Interest Registry reserves the right to modify these terms at any time. By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy. |
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