Whois & Analysis for blogtopsites.com

A blog (a truncation of the expression weblog) is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.

Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic.

In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and sometimes professionally edited.

MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic.

The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media.

Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

A web directory or link directory is an online list or catalog of websites.

That is, it is a directory on the World Wide Web of (all or part of) the World Wide Web.

Historically, directories typically listed entries on people or businesses, and their contact information; such directories are still in use today.

A web directory includes entries about websites, including links to those websites, organized into categories and subcategories.

Besides a link, each entry may include the title of the website, and a description of its contents.

In most web directories, the entries are about whole websites, rather than individual pages within them (called "deep links").

Websites are often limited to inclusion in only a few categories.

A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs).

The information may be a mix of web pages, images, and other types of files.

Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories.

Unlike web directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.

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.