Mini Content Marketing comparison of websites for thoughtco.com

thoughtco.com

54%

history.com

53%
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hbr.org

51%
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vocabulary.com

42%
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thebalance.com

37%
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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.

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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 thoughtco.com history.com vocabulary.com thebalance.com hbr.org
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 thoughtco.com history.com vocabulary.com thebalance.com hbr.org
Number of Referring Backlinks (Content Popularity) (day) 9,535,207 4,690,057 1,615,636 7,881,367 22,589,026
Number of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 114,530 99,925 24,009 68,489 160,569
Number of URLs found in the index (day) 148,012 288,880 503,182 58,023 560,379
Number of IPs that refer to domain (day) 74,264 61,619 19,365 44,016 95,599
Number of subnets that refer to domain (day) 39,943 33,464 13,317 24,899 49,797
Number of Referring .EDU und .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 1,948 1,413 548 762 1,751
Number of Backlinks from .EDU and .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 105,683 20,198 9,260 6,248 652,736
Number of governmental and .gov - related domains that refer to domain (day) 177 159 32 61 173
Number of government and .gov - related external backlinks that link to domain (day) 827 1,187 426 162 2,679
The exact number of educational domains that refer to domain (day) 1,269 1,136 217 610 1,101
Number of Backlinks from .EDU Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 89,654 17,059 1,166 4,278 539,460
The exact number of government domains that refer to domain (day) 106 130 10 47 102
The exact number of government links that refer to domain (day) 524 1,050 76 129 690
Average number of outgoing links to unique domains for that domain (day) 9 6 2 4 6
The number of outgoing links for this domain (day) 10 12 2 4 7
Average number of internal links for domain (day) 70 40 48 14 39
Link Strength of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 73 66 59 63 73
Authority of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) 87 75 63 61 70
TrustMetric value for domain (day) - Majestic metric 87 75 63 61 70

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
ThoughtCo.com is the World's Largest Education Resource
Desktop speed score 67
Mobile speed score 47
Mobile usability score 99
Number of all page resources 96
Number of static page resources 36
Number of JS page resources 23
Number of styles (CSS) page resources 1
Total request weight 31 kb
HTML response weight 122 kb
CSS response weight 62 kb
Images response weight 530 kb
JS response weight 897 kb

Usability - optimization suggestions

Selected advices to optimize loading times.

Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs
http://thoughtco.com/
https://thoughtco.com/
https://www.thoughtco.com/
Cache (desktop) by setting expiry date for
https://ak.sail-horizon.com/spm/spm.v1.min.js
https://secure-assets.rubiconproject.com/static/psa/casala_clk/15.png
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-KL5JS8Z
Cache (mobile) by setting expiry date for
https://ak.sail-horizon.com/spm/spm.v1.min.js
https://pixel.everesttech.net/1x1
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-KL5JS8Z
Optimize image files (desktop)
https://www.thoughtco.com/static/2.17.0/image/hp-science,tech,math.png - 66.6KiB (87%)
https://www.thoughtco.com/static/2.17.0/image/hp-arts,music,recreation.png - 58.5KiB (86%)
https://www.thoughtco.com/static/2.17.0/image/hp-resources.png - 52.3KiB (87%)
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 1838.
  • The competing domain thebalance.com has achieved a score of 1268

Content

  • Competitor history.com has reached a value of 288880 for the metric: "Number of URLs found in the index (daily value)".
  • The achieved value for the metric: "Number of URLs found in the index (daily value)" is 148012.
  • The achieved value for the metric: "Number of backlinks from .EDU similar to .EDU domains (daily value)" is 105683 .
  • The achieved value for the metric: "Number of referring .GOV and similar to .GOV domains (daily value)" is 177 .
  • The value achieved for the metric: "Number of backlinks from .EDU domains (daily value)" is 89654 .

Social media

  • The domain thebalance.com was defined as category: Media/News Company on Facebook.
  • A link to Twitter has been found on the domain thebalance.com.
  • The domain hbr.org has a Linkedin account.
  • 20% of this group of domains has a Instagram account.
  • The number of Twitter tweets belonging to the competitor vocabulary.com tweet account is 15387 (since the last update).

Seo

  • The URL https://hbr.org/ is the most frequent url in our search engine rankings, which belongs to the competitor hbr.org
  • The best position ever found for the competitor thebalance.com was 5 and it was found the keyword :keyword.
  • The average position in the search engine rankings for the website hbr.org is 58.
  • The number of visitors from the search engine to the main domain is 381142 per month.
  • The domain :domain is the competitor with the most expected visitors per month from the search engine

Server

  • Some links and buttons are too small and can cause problems for website visitors of the competitor hbr.org website.
  • The CSS of the main domain website accounts for4% of all data transfers.
  • Javascript on the main domain hold 56% of all data transfers.
  • The desktop version of the main domain received an Insights value of 67 for the performance.
  • Some links and buttons are too small and can cause problems for website visitors of the main domain.