Mini Content Marketing comparison of websites for thebalance.com

thoughtco.com

69%
Change competitor

thebalance.com

50%

lifewire.com

42%
Change competitor

moneycontrol.com

35%
Change competitor

thespruce.com

30%
Change competitor

Our algorithms collect information, determine the relevant competitors and compare how these pages perform in direct comparison in fields: search engine rankings and traffic, social media activity and reach, popularity on other websites (backlinks) and the technical aspects of the website itself (user experience and many more). The selection of competitors can be improved by any visitor at any time by clicking on them and selecting an additional one or replacing existing ones. The displayed score is made up of metrics, which we present below. It shows percentage success measurement (snapshot) compared to the competition. The higher the percentage, the better performance. This area belongs to the research work of the Internet Institute Zurich and does not guarantee the accuracy of the data. For precise evaluations, we recommend opening an account.

Submit better competitors

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).

This area belongs to the research work of the Internet Institute Zurich and does not guarantee the accuracy of the data. For precise evaluations, we recommend opening an account.

Metric thebalance.com thoughtco.com lifewire.com moneycontrol.com thespruce.com
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 followers x x x x x
Instagram following (account is following) 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 thebalance.com thoughtco.com lifewire.com moneycontrol.com thespruce.com
Number of Referring Backlinks (Content Popularity) (day) 7,881,367 9,535,207 4,686,854 13,379,594 4,806,008
Number of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 68,489 114,530 60,413 28,260 53,627
Number of URLs found in the index (day) 58,023 148,012 81,197 1,847,067 147,917
Number of IPs that refer to domain (day) 44,016 74,264 44,200 18,531 34,914
Number of subnets that refer to domain (day) 24,899 39,943 26,665 12,156 19,173
Number of Referring .EDU und .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 762 1,948 824 129 227
Number of Backlinks from .EDU and .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 6,248 105,683 53,532 931 4,875
Number of governmental and .gov - related domains that refer to domain (day) 61 177 73 41 43
Number of government and .gov - related external backlinks that link to domain (day) 162 827 244 1,545 247
The exact number of educational domains that refer to domain (day) 610 1,269 581 68 181
Number of Backlinks from .EDU Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 4,278 89,654 5,252 396 2,653
The exact number of government domains that refer to domain (day) 47 106 45 2 35
The exact number of government links that refer to domain (day) 129 524 113 3 104
Average number of outgoing links to unique domains for that domain (day) 4 9 6 0 3
The number of outgoing links for this domain (day) 4 10 7 1 3
Average number of internal links for domain (day) 14 70 41 12 11
Link Strength of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 63 73 67 60 57
Authority of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 61 87 74 37 58
TrustMetric value for domain (day) - Majestic metric 61 87 74 37 58

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
The Balance - Make Money Personal
Desktop speed score 80
Mobile speed score 69
Mobile usability score 100
Number of all page resources 57
Number of static page resources 26
Number of JS page resources 23
Number of styles (CSS) page resources 1
Total request weight 17 kb
HTML response weight 146 kb
CSS response weight 207 kb
Images response weight 104 kb
JS response weight 880 kb

Usability - optimization suggestions

Selected advices to optimize loading times.

Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs
http://thebalance.com/
https://thebalance.com/
https://www.thebalance.com/
Cache (desktop) by setting expiry date for
https://ak.sail-horizon.com/spm/spm.v1.min.js
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-5SPGGR
https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js
Cache (mobile) by setting expiry date for
https://ak.sail-horizon.com/spm/spm.v1.min.js
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-5SPGGR
https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js
Speed up server response time
Response time in 0.25 seconds
Optimize image files (desktop)
https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/simgad/1842920167483948034 - 13.6KiB (41%)

Summary of some information about this domain and its competition

Main

  • Die Domain achieved a Score of 1725.
  • The competing domain thoughtco.com has achieved a score of 2360

Content

  • The most common term on the website is your
  • The ratio of the number of words and word combinations on the main domains to the benchmark of the competition sites is "216:202".
  • The value achieved for the metric: "Number of referring .GOV domains (daily value)" is 47 .
  • Competitor thespruce.com has achieved a value of 35 for the metric: "Number of referring .GOV domains (daily value)".
  • Competitor thoughtco.com has achieved a value of 70 for the metric:"Average number of internal links".

Social media

  • The domain moneycontrol.com has a Linkedin account.
  • A link to Twitter was found on the main domain.
  • The main domain has a LinkedIn account.
  • 100% of this group of domains has a Facebook account.
  • alerts-new.social_media.competitor_fans_currently_FACEBOOK.0

Seo

  • The URL https://www.thebalance.com/wants-vs-needs-1388544 is the most common search engine result in our search engine rankings
  • The average position in the search engine rankings for the main domain is 53.
  • The competitors (lifewire.com) best performing keyword is autologin and it was found on the position 8
  • The domain :domain is the competitor with the most expected visitors per month from the search engine
  • On average, the competitors get at least 3150992 visitors per month from the search engine.

Server

  • The version for smartphones and tablets of the main domain has achieved 100 points for user-experience (how user-friendly a website is).
  • The total amount of the website requests on competitor thespruce.com was calculated at 18 kb.
  • Graphic files (on the homepage of the competitor moneycontrol.com) have a size of 3438 kb.
  • The HTML script of the competitor moneycontrol.com weighs 2632 kb.
  • The version for smartphones and tablets of the competitor thespruce.com has achieved 99 points for user-experience (how user-friendly a website is).