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Whois & Analysis for brown.edu

Dec 6, 2019 6:29 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Organization
Brown University
• Address
Computing & Information Services Box 1885
• City
Providence
• Zip Code
02912
• State
RI
• Country
USA
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Brown University See more
• Category
Education  >  College / Graduate School
• Online since
August 27, 1986 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
37 years, 8 months, 3 days
• Alexa Rank
#9.679, brown.edu is in the world's top 10.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by Internet2 has expired on December 21, 2020.
Title Tag
Brown University
Length: 16 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Brown is a leading research university, home to world-renowned faculty and also an innovative educational institution where the curiosity, creativity and intellectual joy of students drives academic excellence.
Length: 210 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Brown University

https://brown.edu

Brown is a leading research university, home to world-renowned faculty and also an innovative educational institution where the curiosity, creativity and intellectua...

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https://brown.edu

Brown University

Brown is a leading research university, home to world-renowned faculty and also an innovative educational institution where the cu...

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URL Resolve

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

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

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

They are the main concepts covered by brown.edu.

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

Topics
Brown University Confidence: 88% Arrow up

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, founded in 1764 as "The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution.

University Confidence: 76% Arrow up

A university ("a whole", "a corporation") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which grants academic degrees in various academic disciplines.

Universities typically provide undergraduate education and postgraduate education.

Creativity Confidence: 75% Arrow up

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.

The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work, or a painting).

Intelligence Confidence: 74% Arrow up

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways including as one's capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, planning, creativity and problem solving.

It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

Curiosity Confidence: 71% Arrow up

Curiosity (from Latin , from cūriōsus "careful, diligent, curious", akin to cura "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in humans and other animals.

Curiosity is heavily associated with all aspects of human development, in which derives the process of learning and desire to acquire knowledge and skill.

WEBSITE SPEED

brown.edu website speed is slow. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

1.7s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.7 seconds.

Speed Percentile

52%

brown.edu is faster than approximately 52 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 #9.679 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • brown.edu daily visitors distribution - Total: 11 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (9.9%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (57.8%)
  • Flag for FranceFrance (11.9%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (20.4%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #10.747
Flag for EgyptEgypt #14.330
Flag for MalaysiaMalaysia #10.404
Flag for PhilippinesPhilippines #9.525
Flag for PakistanPakistan #9.865

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

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Main colors used

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  • 19% #707070
  • 17% #70d0e0
  • 12% #ffffff
  • 6% #705030
  • 6% #304050
  • 5% #101010
  • 5% #504020
  • 3% #806040
  • 3% #000000
  • 3% #908070
  • 2% #a09080
  • 2% #403020

Text/code ratio

brown.edu's text/code ratio is 6.40%. 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 6.40%

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

Headings Arrow up

Great, we found headings on this page.

  • <H1> 1
  • <H2> 15
  • <H3> 85
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Brown university
<H2>
2nd level heading
Secondary navigation navigation
Site navigation
At brown, our students have the freedom to choose their academic journeys.
The ımpact of our work
The brown difference
<H3>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H3> tags are shown below.

3rd level heading
Midyear completion students carve out their own space on way to graduation (2)
Mindfulness training may help lower blood pressure, new study shows (2)
Students uncover uncharted histories of the slave trade for upcoming documentary series (2)
Finance leader michael white appointed vice president and cfo at brown (2)
Researchers demonstrate strange melting point phenomenon in metals
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 104 images on this website.
29 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 28 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on brown.edu /sites/g/files/dprerj316/files/styles/wide_med/public/2019-06/08_Homepage_Round2.jpg?h=920929c4&itok... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on brown.edu /sites/g/files/dprerj316/files/styles/classic_lrg/public/2019-06/08_Homepage_Round2.jpg?h=46e51def&i... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on brown.edu /sites/g/files/dprerj316/files/styles/classic_xsml/public/2019-12/aluminum-artisan-brass-bright-2592... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on brown.edu /themes/custom/brown/static/images/atom.svg 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on brown.edu /themes/custom/brown/static/images/brain.svg 1

Alternative text allows you to add a description to an image.

Google rely on alternative text attributes to determine relevance to a search query. Alternative text also makes an image more likely to appear in a Google image search.

It looks like you're missing alternative text for 29 images on brown.edu. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

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  • Total Engagement 9.376
  • Likes 2.147
  • Shares 6.404
  • Comments 825

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Registration Date 08/27/1986 37 years, 8 months, 3 days ago
Last Modified 09/26/2019 4 years, 7 months, 3 days ago
Expiration Date 07/31/2020 Expired

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Brown University
  • IP Address
  • 128.148.252.151
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Rhode Island , Providence
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 41.8244 : -71.408
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