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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!

rac.ca 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.

rac.ca 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 1.894 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 76.9 kilobytes. Such an amount is nothing to worry about.
• The homepage of the website contains at least 41 images. Such an amount of images to have on a homepage is alright, so long as they are well compressed.
• Around 93 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, rac.ca takes up 848434 place. This information was retrieved on 2018-01-22.
• The best rank given to this website was 368555, given on 2015-05-11.
• Over the last 90 days or so, the rank has changed by -17596.
• On the other hand, the worst rank this website was given is 999880 on 2016-10-31.
• The average rank, month after month, is around 771841 for rac.ca.
• In Canada, where is the main target audience of the website, it ranks in 39326 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 282439864 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, rac.ca takes up 612371 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 74298 was recorded on 2013-12-17 by Quantcast.
• As for the worst position of 913880, this dark day was on 2013-12-19.

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 198.51.75.30.
• The physical location of the server itself is in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• 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: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 03:50:13 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=6onld0op0gha2cdr7b1k7bnpu7; path=/
Pragma: no-cache
Link: <http://wp.rac.ca/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Domain name:           rac.ca
Domain status:         registered
Creation date:         2000/10/26
Expiry date:           2019/06/15
Updated date:          2013/09/24
DNSSEC:                Unsigned
Registrar:
Name:              BareMetal.com inc
Number:            115
Registrant:
Name:              Radio Amateurs of Canada Inc.
Administrative contact:
Name:              Paul Burggraaf
Postal address:    720 Belfast Road
217
Ottawa ON K1G0Z5 Canada
Phone:             +1.7097451999
Fax:
Email:             
Technical contact:
Name:              Tom Brown
Postal address:    4255 Shelbourne St.
victoria BC V8N3G1 Canada
Phone:             +1.2505987708
Fax:
Email:             
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