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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!

defense.gov 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.

defense.gov 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 1.887 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 107.7 kilobytes. Such an amount is nothing to worry about.
• The homepage of the website contains at least 27 images. Such an amount can be considered spot on and should not impact the load speed of the website in any negative way.
• Around 64 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, defense.gov takes up 26221 place. This information was retrieved on 2018-01-19.
• The best rank given to this website was 17936, given on 2014-09-19.
• Over the last 90 days or so, the rank has changed by -516.
• On the other hand, the worst rank this website was given is 37425 on 2017-01-10.
• The average rank, month after month, is around 27590 for defense.gov.
• In United States, where is the main target audience of the website, it ranks in 7920 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 7040600 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, defense.gov takes up 13396 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 5505 was recorded on 2013-11-19 by Quantcast.
• As for the worst position of 13401, this dark day was on 2015-02-04.

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 23.43.117.121.
• 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
Cache-Control: no-cache,private
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: -1
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
pw_value: 3ce3af822980b849665e8c5400e1b45b
X-Powered-By: 
Server: 
X-ASPNET-VERSION: 
X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 04:40:46 GMT
Transfer-Encoding:  chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Connection: Transfer-Encoding

Domain Name: DEFENSE.GOV
Status: ACTIVE
>>> Last update of whois database: 2017-04-12T18:47:35Z <<<
Please be advised that this whois server only contains information pertaining
to the .GOV domain. For information for other domains please use the whois
server at RS.INTERNIC.NET.