Look through the key statistics analysis before diving in deeper into our report:
| Parameter | Current result | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Meta title | Boston University | 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 17 characters long. |
| Description | Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world. | This meta description is 139 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 1.322 seconds | The website load speed is rather good. |
| Alexa global rank | 4033, 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 4281 | The website is very well known according to QUANTCAST. |
| Links on homepage | Around 147 links | This is a well-judged amount of links for a homepage. |
| Backlinks amount | Approximately 22029 | Such a great number of backlinks! |
| HTML size | 22KB | 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 128.197.26.34. | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Related categories | Career and Education > Universities and Colleges Career and Education > Education Health 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 | gsu.edu physicsclassroom.com ucla.edu physicsforums.com psu.edu |
These websites fall into the same categories as bu.edu, more or less. By extension, they compete with the analysed website for the same target audience. |
| Possibly visited | shelldreamsoverseas.com bannerweb.upstate.edu buprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com bu.service-now.com bu-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com |
The people that visit bu.edu also seem to have a marked interest in these websites. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Approximate traffic per month | 7.26M | The website is clearly extremely popular. |
| Delta of monthly traffic | +9.92% | The traffic has grown over the last month. |
| Approximate time on site | 3:58 | Wow, that's a great average result! The website must have some incredible content to keep visitors occupied. |
| bu.edu Visitor Bounce Rate | 59.47% | This is the final search stop for a lot of visitors. |
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 4569600 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: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 10:06:24 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Set-Cookie: isMobile=false_1.2; path=/; domain=.bu.edu Set-Cookie: wantsMobile=false_1.2_default; path=/; domain=.bu.edu X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.16RC1 Vary: Cookie,Accept-Encoding,User-Agent Link: <http://www.bu.edu/info/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/" Link: <http://www.bu.edu/info/?p=90>; rel=shortlink Last-Modified: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 10:06:24 GMT Cache-Control: max-age=360, must-revalidate Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Via: 1.0 www.bu.edu X-BU-Main-Uniqueid: Wf7ioArxGl8AAF82EVEAAAHc X-BU-Duration: D=209510 X-BU-Backend: niscms http://ist-wp-app-prod101.bu.edu Connection: close |
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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 information regarding the use of this WHOIS server, please type: help -------------------------- Domain Name: BU.EDU Registrant: Boston University Information Services & Technology 111 Cummington Mall Boston, MA 02215-2411 UNITED STATES Administrative Contact: Network Operations Center Boston University Information Services & Technology 111 Cummington Mall Boston, MA 02215 UNITED STATES (617) 353-4357 Technical Contact: Network Operations Center Boston University Information Services & Technology 111 Cummington Mall Boston, MA 02215 UNITED STATES (617) 353-4357 Name Servers: EDNS01.BU.EDU 128.197.253.182 EDNS02.BU.EDU 168.122.254.62 EDNS03.BU.EDU 192.12.188.130 Domain record activated: 25-Mar-1986 Domain record last updated: 07-Jul-2016 Domain expires: 31-Jul-2017 |
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