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OVERVIEW

• Category
Education  >  Distance Learning  >  College Administration  >  College / Graduate School  >  7-12 Education
• Online since
December 5, 1993 (explore Wayback Machine)
• Age
29 years, 3 months, 25 days
• Owner
Samford University (See more)

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SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by Internet2 has expired on December 5, 2020.
Title Tag
Samford University | Birmingham, Alabama
Length: 40 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Samford University is Alabama's top-ranked private university. Located in suburban Birmingham, Samford has more than 5,600 students studying in 31 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
Length: 190 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Samford University | Birmingham, Alabama

https://samford.edu

Samford University is Alabama's top-ranked private university. Located in suburban Birmingham, Samford has more than 5,600 students studying in 31 undergraduate and...

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Samford University | Birmingham, Alabama

Samford University is Alabama's top-ranked private university. Located in suburban Birmingham, Samford has more than 5,600 student...

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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 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 samford.edu.

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

Topics
Samford University Confidence: 92% Arrow up

Samford University is a private, coeducational, Christian university located in Homewood, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham.

In 1841, the university was founded as Howard College.

Samford University is the 87th oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

Samford University is Alabama's top-ranked private university.

The university enrolls 5,471 students from 47 states and 29 countries.

Samford University has been nationally ranked for academic programs, value and affordability by Kiplinger's Personal Finance and The Princeton Review.

Birmingham, Alabama Confidence: 87% Arrow up

Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Jefferson County.

The city's population was 212,237 in the 2010 United States Census.

The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of about 1,128,047 according to the 2010 Census, which is approximately one quarter of Alabama's population.

Private university Confidence: 81% Arrow up

Private universities are not operated by governments, although many receive tax breaks, public student loans, and grants.

Depending on their location, private universities may be subject to government regulation.

This is in contrast to public universities and national universities.

Most private universities are non-profit organizations.

Undergraduate education Confidence: 76% Arrow up

Undergraduate education is the post-secondary education previous to the postgraduate education.

It includes all the academic programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree.

For example, in the United States an entry level university student is known as an undergraduate, while students of higher degrees are known as graduates.

In some other educational systems and subjects, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a master's degree; this is the case for some science courses in Britain and some medicine courses in Europe.

Postgraduate education Confidence: 76% Arrow up

Postgraduate education, or graduate education in North America, involves learning and studying for academic or professional degrees, academic or professional certificates, academic or professional diplomas, or other qualifications for which a first or bachelor's degree generally is required, and it is normally considered to be part of higher education.

In North America, this level is generally referred to as graduate school (or sometimes colloquially as grad school).

WEBSITE SPEED

samford.edu website speed is fast. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

0.5s

This domain loads at the median speed of 0.5 seconds.

Speed Percentile

95%

samford.edu is faster than approximately 95 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.

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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Main colors used

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  • 27% #101000
  • 14% #ffffff
  • 10% #102040
  • 6% #807070
  • 5% #000000
  • 4% #604030
  • 4% #203050
  • 3% #705040
  • 3% #605050
  • 3% #fffff0
  • 2% #100000
  • 2% #fff0d0

Text/code ratio

samford.edu's text/code ratio is 14.39%. 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 14.39%

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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Great, we found headings on this page.

  • <H1> 1
  • <H2> 3
  • <H3> 0
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Samford university
<H2>
2nd level heading
Academics
Alumni
Athletics
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We found 15 images on this website.
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SOCIAL

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  • Total Engagement 2.241
  • Likes 913
  • Shares 906
  • Comments 422

DOMAIN

Registration Date 12/05/1993 29 years, 3 months, 25 days ago
Last Modified 01/28/2019 4 years, 2 months, 2 days ago
Expiration Date 07/31/2021 Expired

SERVER

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Windstream Communications LLC
  • IP Address
  • 104.245.148.236
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Alabama , Birmingham
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 33.4629 : -86.7904

OWNER

The owner's whois contact information is public.
Organization
Samford University
Address
800 Lakeshore Drive
City
Birmingham
Zip
35229
State
AL
Country
USA
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