Mini Content Marketing comparison of websites for howstuffworks.com

howstuffworks.com

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SEO: Number of expected visitors from the search engine

Expected volume of visitors based on the visibility in the search engine (presence on the first search results page for keywords that have significant monthly demand. Calculated thanks to public statistics on click rate). The value should not be compared with Google analytics numbers. The key figures are intended to be representative for the search engine visibility of a domain.

Social media statistics

Selected social media statistics on reach (number of followers / fans), activity (number of posts) and engagement (e.g. number of likes achieved for all posts).

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Metric howstuffworks.com
Twitter followers x
Twitter following (account is following) x
Twitter likes x
Instagram followers x
Instagram following (account is following) x
Youtube subscribers x
Youtube comments x
Youtube videos x

Number of referring external websites - an important source of visitors

Number of backlinks and other important metrics

Metric howstuffworks.com
Number of Referring Backlinks (Content Popularity) (day) 6,406,312
Number of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 142,952
Number of URLs found in the index (day) 1,343,678
Number of IPs that refer to domain (day) 90,197
Number of subnets that refer to domain (day) 46,958
Number of Referring .EDU und .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 1,847
Number of Backlinks from .EDU and .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 40,101
Number of governmental and .gov - related domains that refer to domain (day) 213
Number of government and .gov - related external backlinks that link to domain (day) 1,259
The exact number of educational domains that refer to domain (day) 1,100
Number of Backlinks from .EDU Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 26,805
The exact number of government domains that refer to domain (day) 146
The exact number of government links that refer to domain (day) 950
Average number of outgoing links to unique domains for that domain (day) 4
The number of outgoing links for this domain (day) 5
Average number of internal links for domain (day) 18
Link Strength of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 72
Authority of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 86
TrustMetric value for domain (day) - Majestic metric 86

Keywords research

Frequent words and word combinations of the group of chosen websites and statistics on the occurrence and monthly demand in Google. Find keywords that are often used by competitors and have demand in the search engine.

Usability scores

User Experience Performance of the main domain on various devices (100 - is the best performance) und information about website loading times.

Page title
HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!
Desktop speed score 67
Mobile speed score 48
Mobile usability score 99
Number of all page resources 75
Number of static page resources 55
Number of JS page resources 20
Number of styles (CSS) page resources 5
Total request weight 7 kb
HTML response weight 132 kb
CSS response weight 333 kb
Images response weight 459 kb
JS response weight 1432 kb

Usability - optimization suggestions

Selected advices to optimize loading times.

Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs
http://howstuffworks.com/
https://howstuffworks.com/
https://www.howstuffworks.com/
Cache (desktop) by setting expiry date for
https://assets.hswstatic.com/js/jwplayer-8.7.6/jwplayer.js
https://d1bk6lwzdwelz0.cloudfront.net/script.js
https://s.flocdn.com/@s1/ads-coordinator/3.9.0.min.js
Cache (mobile) by setting expiry date for
https://assets.hswstatic.com/js/jwplayer-8.7.6/jwplayer.js
https://d1bk6lwzdwelz0.cloudfront.net/script.js
https://s.flocdn.com/@s1/ads-coordinator/3.9.0.min.js
Speed up server response time
Response time in https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/Server
Minify HTML files (desktop)
https://www.howstuffworks.com/ - 2.6KiB (11%)
Optimize image files (desktop)
https://r.hswstatic.com/h_300/gif/solarwind-update.jpg - 22.3KiB (30%)
https://r.hswstatic.com/h_300/gif/pollen.jpg - 17.2KiB (27%)
https://r.hswstatic.com/h_300/gif/lox.jpg - 12.3KiB (26%)
Some of the links/buttons on your webpage may be too small for a user to easily tap on a touchscreen. (mobile)

Summary of some information about this domain and its competition

Main

  • Die Domain achieved a Score of 1100.

Social media

  • 0% of this group of domains has a Facebook account.
  • 0% of this group of domains has a Twitter account.
  • 0% of this group of domains has a Google+ account.
  • 0% of this group of domains has a LinkedIn account.
  • 0% of this group of domains has a Youtube account.

Seo

  • The URL https://www.howstuffworks.com/ is the most common search engine result in our search engine rankings
  • The search engine rankings update for the main domain took place on 2018-02-17.
  • The average position in the search engine rankings for the main domain is 61.
  • The main domain has a number of expected visitor coming from the search engine of 0 per month (traffic).

Server

  • The main domain has a number of pages indexed in the search engine of 168,000.
  • Javascript on the main domain hold 61% of all data transfers.
  • Static objects of the main domain are numerous and https://assets.hswstatic.com/js/jwplayer-8.7.6/jwplayer.js, https://d1bk6lwzdwelz0.cloudfront.net/script.js, https://s.flocdn.com/@s1/ads-coordinator/3.9.0.min.js, https://s.flocdn.com/cmp/loader.js could have information about their expiry date and be loaded from the cache of the browser.
  • The number of Javascript resources (on the homepage of the main domain) is 20 .
  • The entire CSS files of the main domain homepage weighs 333 kb.