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Whois & Analysis for gmu.edu

Dec 23, 2019 9:50 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner's whois contact information is public.
• Organization
George Mason University
• Address
4400 University Drive 4400 University Drive
• City
Fairfax
• Zip Code
22030
• State
VA
• Country
USA
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
George Mason University See more
• Category
Education  >  College / Graduate School
• Online since
October 14, 1987 Explore Wayback Machine
• Age
36 years, 6 months, 13 days
• Alexa Rank
#7.521, gmu.edu is in the world's top 10.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

Redirection
gmu.edu redirects to https://www2.gmu.edu
SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by Internet2 has expired on September 18, 2021.
Title Tag
George Mason |
Length: 14 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Mason is making its mark as a great university of a new and necessary kind—evolving every day to meet changing needs and deliver an education of relevance.
Length: 157 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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George Mason |

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Mason is making its mark as a great university of a new and necessary kind—evolving every day to meet changing needs and deliver an education of relevance.

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https://gmu.edu

George Mason |

Mason is making its mark as a great university of a new and necessary kind—evolving every day to meet changing needs and deliver a...

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Attribute Value
viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

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

They are the main concepts covered by gmu.edu.

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

Topics
George Mason University Confidence: 70% Arrow up

George Mason University (also Mason), located in George Mason in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, is the largest public research university in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1949 and became an independent institution in 1972.

Today, Mason is recognized for its programs in economics, law, creative writing, computer science, and business.

In recent years, George Mason faculty have twice won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

The university enrolls 33,917 students, making it the largest university by head count in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

0.8s

This domain loads at the median speed of 0.8 seconds.

Speed Percentile

88%

gmu.edu is faster than approximately 88 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 #7.521 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • gmu.edu daily visitors distribution - Total: 7 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (4.7%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (78.5%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (16.8%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #20.783
Flag for MalaysiaMalaysia #10.088
Flag for PhilippinesPhilippines #6.154
Flag for PakistanPakistan #7.024
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #1.607

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

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  • 27% #002010
  • 16% #101000
  • 12% #000000
  • 10% #003020
  • 7% #005030
  • 6% #006040
  • 5% #004030
  • 2% #ffd030
  • 2% #201000
  • 1% #f0d040
  • 1% #007050
  • 1% #a08060

Text/code ratio

gmu.edu's text/code ratio is 10.75%. 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 10.75%

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

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  • <H1> 0
  • <H2> 26
  • <H3> 0
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0

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We recommend using one top level heading to set up a semantic relationship between that heading and the remainder of the content on a page. It clearly describes to the readers and the search engines what it is about.

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ınternship leads to job (2)
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Winter graduation (2)
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We found 50 images on this website.
21 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 17 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.

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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.

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SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

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  • Total Engagement 4.565
  • Likes 2.758
  • Shares 948
  • Comments 859

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Registration Date 10/14/1987 36 years, 6 months, 13 days ago
Last Modified 05/06/2019 4 years, 11 months, 24 days ago
Expiration Date 07/31/2021 Expired

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • George Mason University
  • IP Address
  • 129.174.1.59
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Fairfax
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 38.8476 : -77.3281
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