All Website Statistic That Are Publicly Available
8 May
Article from Seomoz
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-list-of-every-website-statistic-publicly-available
Admitedly, this is an ambitious list, but it’s also a worthwhile
one. Below, I’ve attempted to lay the foundation for every piece of
website data available to marketers, researchers and the curious.
Competitive analysis experts, welcome to data paradise:
Technical Data
- IP Address – via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – 204.15.225.178) - Other Sites on an IP Address – via IP Query at Live.com
(e.g. SEOmoz’s – 204.15.225.178) - Server Type – via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – Apache) - Response Time – via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – 5.78ms) - Name Server – via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – dns1.dedicatedns.com) - W3C Validation – via W3C Markup Validator
(e.g. SEOmoz – we passed!) - CSS Validation – via W3C CSS Validator
(e.g. SEOmoz – validates) - Speed Report – via WebsiteOptimization.com
(e.g. SEOmoz, 23.44 seconds @ 56K – sadly, you can’t link directly to these) - Use of Text – via Ranks.nl KW Density Checker
(e.g.
SEOmoz’s homepage has 662 total words, 336 uniques and “seo” is the
most common, again you can’t link directly to these pages; note – I’m
not endorsing KW Density; I just appreciate their tool) - HTTP Headers Response – via Web Sniffer
(e.g. SEOmoz – 200 OK)
Ownership/Hosting Data
- Whois Data (registrant, registration date, contacts, etc.) – via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz) - Additional Sites Owned/Registered – via DomainTools Search and Alexa
(e.g. SEOmoz @ DomainTools & SEOmoz @ Alexa) - SSL Certificates Issued – via DomainTools Search
- IP History – via DomainTools Search
- Hosting History – via Netcraft
- Whois History – via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz)
Statistics/Popularity Data
- Alexa Rank – via Alexa
(e.g. SEOmoz @ Alexa – 864th most popular site) - Alexa Reach – via Alexa
(e.g. SEOmoz @ Alexa – 1395 per million users) - Alexa Page Views Estimate – via Alexa
(e.g. SEOmoz @ Alexa – 2.7 per user) - Google Trends Data – via Google Trends
(e.g. SEOmoz – no data; only available for highly searched-for domains) - Compete Snapshot – via Compete.com
(e.g. SEOmoz – 5854 visitors in August, ranked #204,215th most popular site; no direct linking in) - Ranking.com Rank – via Ranking.com
(e.g. SEOmoz – 26,741st most popular site) - Netcraft Ranking – via Netcraft
(e.g. SEOmoz – 20,319th most popular site) - Bloglines Subscribers – via Bloglines Feed Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – 448 subscribers)
Search Engine Indexing Data
- Google’s Indexed Pages – via Google site: command
(e.g. SEOmoz – 18,400 pages) - Yahoo! Pages Indexed – via Yahoo! Site Explorer
(e.g. SEOmoz – 5,432 pages) - MSN Pages Indexed – via Live.com site: command
(e.g. SEOmoz – 11,416 pages) - Ask.com Pages Indexed – via Ask
(e.g. SEOmoz – 362; note that this requires an additional term in the query to return results) - Gigablast Pages Indexed – via Gigablast Advanced Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – 1 page) - Exalead Pages Indexed – via Exalead
(e.g. SEOmoz – 5,481 pages) - Clusty Pages Indexed – via Clusty Advanced Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – 5,867 pages) - How this Site Looked in the Past – via Wayback Machine
(e.g. SEOmoz – all the way back from February of 2005)
Link Data
- Yahoo! Link Data – via Yahoo! Site Explorer
(e.g. SEOmoz – 187,234 external links) - Technorati Link Data – via Technorati
(e.g. SEOmoz – 8,961 links from 2,541 blogs) - MSN Link Data – via Live.com
(e.g. SEOmoz – 107,512 external links) - Google Link Data – via Google (note that this information is purposefully inaccurate)
(e.g. SEOmoz – a uselessly erroneous 2,370 links) - Google PageRank – via RankAlert (shows for all 72 datacenters)
(e.g. SEOmoz – PR 5/10 or 6/10 depending on DC) - Exalead Links – via Exalead
(e.g. SEOmoz – 4,308 external links)
Social Tagging Data
- Bookmarks at Del.icio.us – via Del.icio.us
(e.g. SEOmoz – 31 pages, thousands of bookmarks) - Pages in StumbleUpon – via StumbleUpon Reviews
(e.g. SEOmoz) - Mentions at Digg – via Digg Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – 50+) - Mentions at Reddit – via Reddit Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – 21) - Mentions at Tailrank – via Tailrank Search
(e.g. SEOmoz –
- Mentions at Newsvine – via Newsvine
(e.g. SEOmoz – 1)
Third-Party Trust Metrics
- TrustGauge Rank – via TrustGauge
- Better Business Bureau Listings – via BBBOnline.org
- Truste Sealholders – via Truste Member List (sadly, no search function)
Important Directory & Site Listings
- Listings in the Open Directory Project – via DMOZ
(e.g. SEOmoz – 3) - Listings in Wikipedia – via Wikipedia Search
(e.g. SEOmoz – 12) - Listings in the Yahoo! Directory – via dir.yahoo.com
(e.g. SEOmoz – 1) - Listings in MSN’s bCentral – via bCentral
- Listings in Business.com – via Google Search (as Business.com has none of their own)
- Links in Google Groups – via Groups.Google.com
(e.g. SEOmoz – 134)
Press & Media Mentions
- Listings in Google News – via news.google.com
(e.g. SEOmoz –
- Listings in Google News Archive – via archive search
(e.g. SEOmoz – 58) - Listings in Yahoo! News – via news.yahoo.com
(e.g. SEOmoz – 13)
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