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Content Marketing comparison of websites for sparknotes.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 | sparknotes.com | theguardian.com | dictionary.com | thefreedictionary.com | vocabulary.com | |
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Facebook
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Facebook fans | x | x | x | x | x |
Twitter
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Tweets | x | x | x | x | x |
| Twitter followers | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Twitter following (account is following) | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Twitter likes | x | x | x | x | x | |
Instagram
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Instagram posts | x | x | x | x | x |
| Instagram followers | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Instagram following (account is following) | x | x | x | x | x | |
Youtube
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Youtube views | x | x | x | x | x |
| Youtube subscribers | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Youtube comments | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Youtube videos | x | x | x | x | x |
Number of referring external websites - an important source of visitors
Number of backlinks and other important metrics
| Metric | sparknotes.com | theguardian.com | dictionary.com | thefreedictionary.com | vocabulary.com |
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| Number of Referring Backlinks (Content Popularity) (day) | 672,759 | 247,407,602 | 22,985,748 | 44,958,369 | 1,615,636 |
| Number of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 24,695 | 726,461 | 109,804 | 94,490 | 24,009 |
| Number of URLs found in the index (day) | 372,216 | 7,349,878 | 1,619,956 | 17,762,937 | 503,182 |
| Number of IPs that refer to domain (day) | 18,846 | 323,779 | 71,011 | 63,430 | 19,365 |
| Number of subnets that refer to domain (day) | 13,017 | 118,839 | 38,276 | 35,518 | 13,317 |
| Number of Referring .EDU und .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 671 | 4,007 | 1,816 | 1,333 | 548 |
| Number of Backlinks from .EDU and .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 6,949 | 566,317 | 428,699 | 89,069 | 9,260 |
| Number of governmental and .gov - related domains that refer to domain (day) | 46 | 900 | 158 | 136 | 32 |
| Number of government and .gov - related external backlinks that link to domain (day) | 135 | 16,466 | 571 | 5,509 | 426 |
| The exact number of educational domains that refer to domain (day) | 455 | 1,583 | 978 | 597 | 217 |
| Number of Backlinks from .EDU Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 4,635 | 183,341 | 24,673 | 17,084 | 1,166 |
| The exact number of government domains that refer to domain (day) | 27 | 201 | 89 | 50 | 10 |
| The exact number of government links that refer to domain (day) | 56 | 4,041 | 370 | 184 | 76 |
| Average number of outgoing links to unique domains for that domain (day) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| The number of outgoing links for this domain (day) | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Average number of internal links for domain (day) | 41 | 6 | 36 | 61 | 48 |
| Link Strength of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 57 | 90 | 78 | 62 | 59 |
| Authority of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 65 | 83 | 67 | 62 | 63 |
| TrustMetric value for domain (day) - Majestic metric | 65 | 83 | 67 | 62 | 63 |
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 SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides |
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| Desktop speed score | 50 |
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| Mobile speed score | 37 |
| Mobile usability score | 99 |
| Number of all page resources | 173 |
| Number of static page resources | 64 |
| Number of JS page resources | 47 |
| Number of styles (CSS) page resources | 3 |
| Total request weight | 39 kb |
| HTML response weight | 72 kb |
| CSS response weight | 95 kb |
| Images response weight | 447 kb |
| JS response weight | 1482 kb |
Usability - optimization suggestions
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Minify HTML files (mobile) http://www.sparknotes.com/ - 1.7KiB (19%)
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Minify JavaScript files (desktop) http://a.tribalfusion.com/real/tags/SparkNotes2/Billboard/tags.js - 3.9KiB (29%)
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Summary of some information about this domain and its competition
Main
- Die Domain achieved a Score of 978.
- The competing domain vocabulary.com has achieved a score of 1069
Content
- The most common word or combination of words on the competitors Website: theguardian.com is picture
- The value achieved for the metric: "Number of referring domains (daily value)" is 24695.
- The achieved value for the metric: "Number of URLs found in the index (daily value)" is 372216.
- The achieved value for the metric: "Average number of outbound links to different domains" is 3 .
- The value achieved for the metric: "Number of outgoing links" is 6 .
Social media
- The domain vocabulary.com was defined as category: Education Website on Facebook.
- The domain dictionary.com has an Instagram account.
- 20% of this group of domains has a Instagram account.
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- The number of Twitter favorites for the competitor dictionary.com tweet account is 9090 (since the last update).
Seo
- The average position in the search engine rankings for the website theguardian.com is 52.
- The URL https://www.sparknotes.com/blog/every-book-on-your-english-syllabus-summed-up-in-a-quote-from-the-office/ is the most common search engine result in our search engine rankings
- The main domain's best performing keyword is everything and it was found on the position 18
- The domain :domain is the competitor with the most expected visitors per month from the search engine
- On average, the competitors get at least 24962156 visitors per month from the search engine.
Server
- The competitor's theguardian.com meta title is: News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's global edition | The Guardian .
- The mobile version of the competitor vocabulary.com achieved 52 points for the server response and website loading times in the Google Insights test.
- The main domain website could compress the JS file http://a.tribalfusion.com/real/tags/SparkNotes2/ROW/tags.js and save 3.9KiB kb (29%).
- The number of Javascript resources (on the homepage of the main domain) is 47 .
- The entire CSS files of the main domain homepage weighs 95 kb.