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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!

nhgis.org 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.

nhgis.org 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 2.4169 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 4.6 kilobytes. Such an amount is nothing to worry about.
• The homepage of the website contains at least 4 images. Such an amount can be considered spot on and should not impact the load speed of the website in any negative way.
• Around 24 server requests have been made before the webpage was fully loaded. This is a good number of server requests. As every request made increases the time it takes to load the page, such a low amount of requests probably improves page load time.

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, nhgis.org takes up 797109 place. This information was retrieved on 2018-02-04.
• The best rank given to this website was 386612, given on 2018-02-04.
• Over the last 90 days or so, the rank has changed by 358966.
• On the other hand, the worst rank this website was given is 999723 on 2016-07-21.
• The average rank, month after month, is around 797080 for nhgis.org.
• In United States, where is the main target audience of the website, it ranks in 135425 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 6094051 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, nhgis.org takes up 89607 place in terms of traffic among all the other indexed websites, according to Quantcast. This rank was retrieved on 2015-01-15.
• The all-time best rank of 89425 was recorded on 2015-01-06 by Quantcast.
• As for the worst position of 90785, this dark day was on 2014-12-03.

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 160.94.0.147.
• 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: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 14:51:00 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=1FB63ECA1740A13E289155DCB5D57006; Path=/idp/; Secure; HttpOnly
Expires: 0
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Length: 4632
Vary: Accept-Encoding

Domain Name: NHGIS.ORG
Registry Domain ID: D68009342-LROR
Registrar WHOIS Server:
Registrar URL: http://www.easydns.com
Updated Date: 2015-08-10T20:08:24Z
Creation Date: 2001-03-19T16:09:14Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-03-19T16:09:14Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date:
Registrar: easyDNS Technologies Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 469
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
Reseller:
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Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: C58955799-LROR
Registrant Name: Peter Clark
Registrant Organization: Minnesota Population Center
Registrant Street: 50 Willey Hall
Registrant City: Minneapolis
Registrant State/Province: MN
Registrant Postal Code: 55455
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.6126245818
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
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Registry Admin ID: C58955801-LROR
Admin Name: Peter Clark
Admin Organization: Minnesota Population Center
Admin Street: 50 Willey Hall
Admin City: Minneapolis
Admin State/Province: MN
Admin Postal Code: 55455
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.6126245818
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
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Registry Tech ID: C58955816-LROR
Tech Name: Peter Clark
Tech Organization: Minnesota Population Center
Tech Street: 50 Willey Hall
Tech City: Minneapolis
Tech State/Province: MN
Tech Postal Code: 55455
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.6126245818
Tech Phone Ext:
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Name Server: NS1.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: NS2.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: REMOTE1.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: REMOTE2.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: NS6.EASYDNS.NET
Name Server: NS3.EASYDNS.ORG
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-04-27T08:45:59Z <<<
For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp
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