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Whois & Analysis for britannica.com

Dec 15, 2019 10:07 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Organization
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
• Address
325 North LaSalle Street
• City
Chicago
• Zip Code
60654
• State
IL
• Country Code
US
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. See more
• Category
News / Weather / Information
• Online since
• Age
28 years, 10 months, 18 days
• Alexa Rank
#561, britannica.com is in the world's top 1.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by Sectigo Limited has expired on August 21, 2020.
Title Tag
Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica
Length: 36 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from experts.
Length: 170 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica

https://britannica.com

Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from exp...

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https://britannica.com

Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica

Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biogr...

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URL Parameters
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viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

The owner has associated the following topics to the website.

The results of our semantic analysis are shown below using the website's language.

They are the main concepts covered by britannica.com.

Each concept has a confidence score. The higher it is, the more important the topic is relative to the page.

Topics
Encyclopædia Britannica Confidence: 86% Arrow up

The ' (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

It is written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors, who have included 110 Nobel Prize winners and five American presidents.

The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition; digital content and distribution has continued since then.

Article (publishing) Confidence: 65% Arrow up

An article is a written work published in a print or electronic medium.

It may be for the purpose of propagating news, research results, academic analysis or debate.

Online encyclopedia Confidence: 64% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

britannica.com website speed is fast. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

2.3s

This domain loads at the median speed of 2.3 seconds.

Speed Percentile

34%

britannica.com is faster than approximately 34 percent of the web. Your website page speed needs to be as fast as you can make it, without compromising the customer experience.

A good goal to achieve is a loading time of 2 seconds on desktop and mobile devices.

PAGESPEED INSIGHTS

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TRAFFIC

This website is ranked #561 by Alexa.

This rank is traffic based. The lower the rank is, the better the domain is ranked.

Daily visitors by country

  • britannica.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 20 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (11.2%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (44.5%)
  • Flag for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (5.8%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (38.5%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #428
Flag for EgyptEgypt #823
Flag for TurkeyTurkey #1.671
Flag for MalaysiaMalaysia #332
Flag for PhilippinesPhilippines #97

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

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  • 39% #f0f0f0
  • 35% #ffffff
  • 6% #c0d0e0
  • 4% #104060
  • 2% #405060
  • 2% #f0ffff
  • 2% #b0c0d0
  • 2% #508090
  • 1% #205070
  • 1% #b0a080
  • 1% #7080a0
  • 1% #306080

Text/code ratio

britannica.com's text/code ratio is 4.97%. It's a bit low. Consider raising it by adding more text content of value for your visitors, or keeping your code clean.
Text / Code Ratio 4.97%

A good text to HTML ratio is anywhere from 25 to 70%.

This percentage refers to the visible text ratio, as opposed to HTML elements, image tags and other non-visible information.

Main HTML tags

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  • <H1> 1
  • <H2> 6
  • <H3> 0
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Explore encyclopedia britannica
<H2>
2nd level heading
Animals ın a cold climate
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75th annıversary of the battle of the bulge
Clash ın the ardennes
Encyclopedia britannica by category
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We found 27 images on this website.
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SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

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  • Total Engagement 27.601
  • Likes 8.464
  • Shares 14.406
  • Comments 4.731

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registration Date 06/14/1995 28 years, 10 months, 18 days ago
Last Modified 06/12/2019 4 years, 10 months, 19 days ago
Expiration Date 06/13/2020 Expired
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Host IP Address Country
ns1.eb.com 38.69.47.32 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns3.eb.com 208.185.238.32 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Zayo Bandwidth
  • IP Address
  • 208.185.238.81
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Illinois , Chicago
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 41.8882 : -87.6322
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