Look through the key statistics analysis before diving in deeper into our report:
| Parameter | Current result | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Meta title | Light Reading | 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 13 characters long. |
| Description | Light Reading is for communications industry professionals who are developing and commercializing services and networks using technologies, standards and devices such as 4G, smartphones, SDN, network virtualization, 100G optical, IP, Ethernet, Big Data, FTTH, DOCSIS and video platforms. | This meta description is 287 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 | 3G, 4G, 5G, 100G, 400G, 1TB, analytics, APIs, apps, backhaul, Big Data, broadband, BSS, carrier Wi-Fi, CDN, CEM, cloud services, Diameter, DOCSIS, DPI, DSL, DWDM, EPC, IMS, IPv6, M2M, managed services, mobile, networks, NFV, OpenFlow, optical, OSS, packet core, PCRF, RCS, SDM, SDN, security, small cells, spectrum, SPIT, vectoring, video, virtualization, VoIP, VoLTE, Wireless | 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 3.801 seconds | Website ranking and usability can be greatly improved by reducing the time it takes to load it. |
| Alexa global rank | 94008, 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 238091 | 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 1053 links | This looks... a little suspicious, to be honest. |
| Backlinks amount | Approximately 3448 | Such a great number of backlinks! |
| HTML size | 244.8KB | 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 34.197.180.5. | 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 | News and Media > Technology News Internet and Telecom > Telecommunications Business and Industry 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 | sdxcentral.com rcrwireless.com fiercetelecom.com fiercewireless.com fiercecable.com |
These websites fall into the same categories as lightreading.com, more or less. By extension, they compete with the analysed website for the same target audience. |
| Possibly visited | core.juniper.net channelbiz.es sdxcentral.com latestgadgets.co.uk johnson-insurance.com |
The people that visit lightreading.com 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 | 620.46K | Without taking the target audience context into account, we'd say the website's not that popular. We do urge you to make your own conclusions, though. |
| Delta of monthly traffic | +1.97% | The traffic has grown over the last month. |
| Approximate time on site | 3:35 | Wow, that's a great average result! The website must have some incredible content to keep visitors occupied. |
| lightreading.com Visitor Bounce Rate | 54.86% | 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 81290710 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:
| Header detail |
|---|
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 09:13:44 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5 Set-Cookie: lightreading%5Fvidview=8%2F20%2F2017+5%3A13%3A45+AM; expires=Fri, 20-Aug-2032 04:00:00 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: lightreading%5Fvidview%5Flr%5Flinkedin=8%2F20%2F2017+5%3A13%3A45+AM; expires=Fri, 20-Aug-2032 04:00:00 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: lightreading%5Flastvisit=8%2F20%2F2017+5%3A13%3A44+AM; expires=Fri, 20-Aug-2032 04:00:00 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: lightreading%5Fvisits=1; expires=Fri, 20-Aug-2032 04:00:00 GMT; path=/ X-Pingback: http://www.lightreading.com/xmlrpc.asp Content-Length: 249983 Connection: keep-alive |
| WHOIS |
|---|
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Domain Name: LIGHTREADING.COM
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Name Server: NS-1328.AWSDNS-38.ORG
Name Server: NS-1582.AWSDNS-05.CO.UK
Name Server: NS-200.AWSDNS-25.COM
Name Server: NS-931.AWSDNS-52.NET
Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 10-nov-2016
Creation Date: 17-nov-1999
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Domain Name: LIGHTREADING.COM
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Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.safenames.net
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Updated Date: 2016-11-10T06:07:17Z
Creation Date: 1999-11-17T12:09:12Z
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Registrar: Safenames Ltd
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Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry
Registrant Name: Anthony Primavera
Registrant Organisation: IIR USA
Registrant Street: Institute for International Research
Registrant Street: 708 Third Avenue - 4th Floor
Registrant City: New York
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Registrant Postal Code: 10017
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.6468957495
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Admin Name: Neil Tubb
Admin Organisation: Informa Group plc
Admin Street: 30-32 Mortimer Street
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Admin City: London
Admin State/Province: London
Admin Postal Code: W1W 7RE
Admin Country: UK
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Name Server: NS-1328.AWSDNS-38.ORG
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Name Server: NS-200.AWSDNS-25.COM
Name Server: NS-931.AWSDNS-52.NET
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