Look through the key statistics analysis before diving in deeper into our report:
| Parameter | Current result | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Meta title | Western Carolina University - Home | 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 34 characters long. |
| Description | Official home page of WCU in Cullowhee, NC. Part of the UNC system. | This meta description is 67 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 3.415 seconds | Website ranking and usability can be greatly improved by reducing the time it takes to load it. |
| Alexa global rank | 61325, 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 179695 | 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 195 links | This is a well-judged amount of links for a homepage. |
| Backlinks amount | Approximately 2240 | Such a great number of backlinks! |
| HTML size | 85.4KB | 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 152.30.23.83. | 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: 1990-01-26 00:00:00 | We apologize, but for some reason we were unable to gather enough data to provide a detailed insight at this time. 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 | Reference Education Colleges and Universities North America United States North Carolina Western Carolina University |
The website falls into one or all of these categories, and, obviously, these are the areas of interest for the target audience. |
| Alternative websites | uncecs.edu northcarolina.edu studentbluenc.com bcbsnc.com ecu.edu |
These websites fall into the same categories as wcu.edu, 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.
| Parameter | Current result | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Approximate time on site | 2:49 | 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 36493289 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 |
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 16:48:21 GMT Content-Length: 86885 Set-Cookie: BIGipServerwww.wcu.edu-http.app~www.wcu.edu-http_pool=219618968.20480.0000; path=/; Httponly Vary: Accept-Encoding |
| WHOIS |
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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: WCU.EDU Registrant: Western Carolina University B-16 Forsyth Bldg. Cullowhee, NC 28723 UNITED STATES Administrative Contact: Scott Swartzentruber Networking & Communications Director Western Carolina University / IT Division Forsyth Bldg, Room B-16 Cullowhee, NC 28723 UNITED STATES (828) 227-7282 Technical Contact: Stephen Wilson Network Manager Western Carolina University / IT Division Forsyth Bldg, Room B-16 Cullowhee, NC 28723 UNITED STATES (828) 227-3215 Name Servers: COWEE1.WCU.EDU 152.30.23.20 COWEE2.WCU.EDU 152.30.23.21 NS.GA.UNC.EDU NCNOC.NCREN.NET Domain record activated: 26-Jan-1990 Domain record last updated: 17-Jul-2009 Domain expires: 31-Jul-2017 |
Now that you are hopefully done with wcu.edu, we invite you to read more of our in-depth reports. Try entering a new domain address in the search form at the top of this page, or on the homepage. Alternatively, refer to this list for more website overviews:
We have found so many alternative TLD extensions for wcu.edu. Here is the full list with 580 entries:
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