Look through the key statistics analysis before diving in deeper into our report:
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Meta title | RAND Corporation Provides Objective Research Services and Public Policy Analysis | RAND | 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 87 characters long. |
Description | The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND focuses on the issues that matter most such as health, education, national security, international affairs, law and business, the environment, and more. With a research staff consisting of some of the world's preeminent minds, RAND has been expanding the boundaries of human knowledge for more than 60 years. | This meta description is 437 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 | independent, objective, research, development, analysis, public, policy, national, security, think tank, defense, science, energy, technology, terrorism, international, domestic, homeland, security, health, experts, debate, agenda. | 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 2.688 seconds | Website ranking and usability can be greatly improved by reducing the time it takes to load it. |
Alexa global rank | 35197, as last checked | According to Alexa and the Global rank, the site is quite well known. |
Quantcast | Current rank, according to our database, is at 18086 | The website seems to enjoy good popularity, according to Quantcast. |
Links on homepage | Around 300 links | This is a well-judged amount of links for a homepage. |
Backlinks amount | Approximately 9813 | Such a great number of backlinks! |
HTML size | 72.6KB | 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 130.154.3.8. | We apologize, but for some reason we were unable to gather enough data to provide a detailed insight at this time. |
Main domain information | Registered on: 1987-04-02 05:00:00 | We apologize, but for some reason we were unable to gather enough data to provide a detailed insight at this time. The website domain address is currently registered at CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. |
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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Related categories | Science Math Operations Research Professional Organizations Science Social Sciences Political Science Institutes Business Healthcare Economics Society Issues Policy Institutes R Regional North America United States Society and Culture Politics Policy Institutes RAND Corporation |
The website falls into one or all of these categories, and, obviously, these are the areas of interest for the target audience. |
Alternative websites | brookings.edu dtic.mil fas.org cfr.org csis.org |
These websites fall into the same categories as rand.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 | 2:20 | Pretty good for an average time spent, wouldn't you say? |
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 16619225 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: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 01:00:33 GMT Server: Apache Vary: Host,Accept-Encoding Accept-Ranges: bytes X-Mod-Pagespeed: 1.9.32.14-0 Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache Content-Length: 74387 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
WHOIS |
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Domain Name: RAND.ORG Registry Domain ID: D4086848-LROR Registrar WHOIS Server: Registrar URL: www.cscglobal.com/global/web/csc/digital-brand-services.html Updated Date: 2017-04-26T18:24:42Z Creation Date: 1987-04-02T05:00:00Z Registry Expiry Date: 2018-04-03T05:00:00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. Registrar IANA ID: 299 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: Reseller: Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: C87394054-LROR Registrant Name: The RAND Corporation Registrant Organization: The RAND Corporation Registrant Street: 1776 Main Street Registrant Street: P.O. Box 2138 Registrant City: Santa Monica Registrant State/Province: CA Registrant Postal Code: 90407-2138 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.3103930411 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Registry Admin ID: C87394051-LROR Admin Name: RAND IST Admin Organization: The RAND Corporation Admin Street: 1776 Main Street Admin Street: P.O. Box 2138 Admin City: Santa Monica Admin State/Province: CA Admin Postal Code: 90407-2138 Admin Country: US Admin Phone: +1.3103930411 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: Registry Tech ID: C87394053-LROR Tech Name: RAND IST Tech Organization: The RAND Corporation Tech Street: 1776 Main Street Tech Street: P.O. Box 2138 Tech City: Santa Monica Tech State/Province: CA Tech Postal Code: 90407-2138 Tech Country: US Tech Phone: +1.3103930411 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: Name Server: DNS1.RAND.ORG Name Server: DNS2.RAND.ORG Name Server: DNS3.RAND.ORG Name Server: AUTHNS1.CENTURYLINK.NET Name Server: AUTHNS2.CENTURYLINK.NET Name Server: DNS4.RAND.ORG DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-05-09T17:53:09Z <<< 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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