Whois & Analysis for bankratecreditcards.com

For the economic feature, see bank rate.

Bankrate, Inc. is a consumer financial services company based in New York City, New York, in the United States.

Bankrate.com, perhaps its best known brand, is a personal finance website.

Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site.

This necessarily does not include the traffic generated by bots.

Since the mid-1990s, web traffic has been the largest portion of Internet traffic.

This is determined by the number of visitors and the number of pages they visit.

Sites monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic to see which parts or pages of their site are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as one specific page being viewed mostly by people in a particular country.

There are many ways to monitor this traffic and the gathered data is used to help structure sites, highlight security problems or indicate a potential lack of bandwidth.

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.

A credit card is a payment card issued to users (cardholders) to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services, based on the cardholder's promise to the card issuer to pay them for the amounts so paid plus other agreed charges.

The card issuer (usually a bank) creates a revolving account and grants a line of credit to the cardholder, from which the cardholder can borrow money for payment to a merchant or as a cash advance.

In accounting, revenue is the income that a business has from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers.

Revenue is also referred to as sales or turnover.