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Whois & Analysis for reference.com

Nov 7, 2019 9:03 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

ⓘ The owner has chosen to keep his whois contact information private.
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SEO SCORE

reference.com
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79

✅ 9 criteria passed
❌ 2 criteria to solve

PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
Technology & Computing  >  Web Search
• Online since
January 25, 1995 Explore Wayback Machine
• Alexa Rank
#4.208, reference.com is in the world's top 5.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

❌ SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa has expired on July 12, 2020.
✅ Title Tag
Reference.com - What's Your Question
Length: 36 (recommended: 10 to 70)
✅ Meta Description
Reference.com is the #1 question answering service that delivers the best answers from the web and real people - all in one place.
Length: 130 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

Reference.com - What's Your Question

https://reference.com

Reference.com is the #1 question answering service that delivers the best answers from the web and real people - all in one place.

Mobile Version

https://reference.com

Reference.com - What's Your Question

Reference.com is the #1 question answering service that delivers the best answers from the web and real people - all in one place.

✅ Encoding
Great, language/character encoding is specified: utf-8
✅ URL Resolve

Great, a redirect is in place to redirect traffic from your non-preferred domain. All versions of your page point to the same URL.

URL Resolved URL
http://reference.com https://www.reference.com/
https://reference.com https://www.reference.com/
http://www.reference.com https://www.reference.com/
https://www.reference.com https://www.reference.com/
✅ Robots.txt
https://www.reference.com/robots.txt
✅ URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
ⓘ viewport width=device-width,initial-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 reference.com.

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

Topics
Question answering Confidence: 82% Arrow up

Question answering (QA) is a computer science discipline within the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), which is concerned with building systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in a natural language.
Call centre Confidence: 71% Arrow up

A call centre or call center is a centralised office used for receiving or transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone.

An inbound call centre is operated by a company to administer incoming product support or information enquiries from consumers.

Outbound call centres are operated for telemarketing, solicitation of charitable or political donations, debt collection and market research.

A contact centre is a location for centralised handling of individual communications, including letters, faxes, live support software, social media, instant message, and e-mail.
World Wide Web Confidence: 65% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

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

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Page Loading Time

1.4s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.4 seconds.

Speed Percentile

64%

reference.com is faster than approximately 64 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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Chrome User Experience Report Results

Lighthouse Results

TRAFFIC

ⓘ This website is ranked #4.208 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

  • reference.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 13 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (4.8%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (63.8%)
  • Flag for CanadaCanada (6.3%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (25.1%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #8.813
Flag for PhilippinesPhilippines #1.093
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #1.192
Flag for AustraliaAustralia #10.156
Flag for ChileChile #1.826
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LAYOUT

ⓘ Doctype HTML5 Arrow ⓘ Responsive website, mobile-friendly. Arrow

Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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How reference.com looks like on a mobile device such as an iPhone.

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How reference.com looks like on a tablet such as an iPad.

Main colors used

ⓘ These are the main HTML color codes used by this website. Arrow
  • 43% #ffffff
  • 21% #000000
  • 19% #f0f0f0
  • 2% #fffff0
  • 2% #d0e0c0
  • 2% #a0d050
  • 1% #f0ffff
  • 1% #8090a0
  • 1% #f0f0ff
  • 1% #f0fff0
  • 1% #607090
  • 1% #b0d070

Text/code ratio

ⓘ reference.com's text/code ratio is 2.06%. 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 2.06%

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

We did not find HTML headings (<H1> to <H6>) on this page.

reference.com currently has 0 HTML heading tags. Each page should have one, and only one, <H1> tag. Use phrases in your headings with your most important keywords in the top level, and be sure to maintain the <H1> to <H6> hierarchy.

  • <H1> 0
  • <H2> 0
  • <H3> 0
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
❌ Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 18 images on this website.
1 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Image Image URL Occurrences
Image with missing alt attribute found on reference.com //b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6034776&cv=2.0&cj=1 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 1 images on reference.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

✅ This is an overview of your homepage shares on social networks.

Congratulations, your website is highly shared on social media! It's an excellent signal for your overall SEO strategy.

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  • Total Engagement 10.540
  • Likes 2.671
  • Shares 6.148
  • Comments 1.721
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