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Whois & Analysis for colby.edu

Nov 18, 2019 4:06 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Organization
Colby College
• Address
ITS 4200 Mayflower Hill
• City
Waterville
• Zip Code
04901
• State
ME
• Country
USA
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Colby College See more
• Category
Home & Garden  >  Home Repair
• Online since
December 20, 1989 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
34 years, 4 months, 20 days
• Alexa Rank
#32.125, colby.edu is in the world's top 50.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

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Colby College
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Meta Description
Waterville, Maine. A small liberal arts college consistently ranked among the top colleges and universities in the nation.
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Colby College

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Waterville, Maine. A small liberal arts college consistently ranked among the top colleges and universities in the nation.

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Colby College

Waterville, Maine. A small liberal arts college consistently ranked among the top colleges and universities in the nation.

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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

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

They are the main concepts covered by colby.edu.

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

Topics
Colby College Confidence: 94% Arrow up

Colby College is a private liberal arts college located near Waterville, Maine, United States.

Colby was founded in 1813, and is named after prominent Baptist preacher Gardner Colby, who funded the school while it was in financial trouble.

Approximately 1,800 students from more than 60 countries are enrolled annually.

The college offers 54 major fields of study and 30 minors.

Among national liberal arts colleges, Colby was ranked 12th by U.S. News & World Report, 19th by Forbes, and 21st by Washington Monthly.

Waterville, Maine Confidence: 89% Arrow up

Waterville is a city in Kennebec County of the U.S. state of Maine, United States, on the west bank of the Kennebec River.

Home to Colby College and Thomas College, the population was 15,722 at the 2010 census.

Waterville is also the second city which makes up the Augusta-Waterville, ME Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Liberal arts college Confidence: 83% Arrow up

A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.

A liberal arts college aims to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum.

Students in a liberal arts college generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional humanities subjects taught as liberal arts.

Although it draws on European antecedents, the liberal arts college is strongly associated with American higher education, and most liberal arts colleges around the world draw explicitly on the American model.

University Confidence: 69% 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.

College Confidence: 66% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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Page Loading Time

0.6s

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Speed Percentile

92%

colby.edu is faster than approximately 92 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 #32.125 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • colby.edu daily visitors distribution - Total: 6 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (3.0%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (81.6%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (15.4%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #98.947
Flag for EgyptEgypt #37.526
Flag for MalaysiaMalaysia #15.888
Flag for PhilippinesPhilippines #9.826
Flag for PakistanPakistan #34.847

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  • 25% #f0f0f0
  • 23% #e0e0e0
  • 17% #8090a0
  • 15% #001020
  • 6% #304040
  • 5% #406070
  • 5% #708090
  • 0% #909030
  • 0% #e0e0c0
  • 0% #206090
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colby.edu's text/code ratio is 6.16%. 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 6.16%

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  • <H1> 0
  • <H2> 3
  • <H3> 1
  • <H4> 4
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0

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SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

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  • Total Engagement 1.004
  • Likes 539
  • Shares 292
  • Comments 173

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Registration Date 12/20/1989 34 years, 4 months, 20 days ago
Last Modified 09/26/2019 4 years, 7 months, 15 days ago
Expiration Date 07/31/2020 Expired

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Colby College
  • IP Address
  • 137.146.24.72
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Maine , Waterville
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 44.5542 : -69.6179
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