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Social Media Analysis

Ask.com has over 660 followers on popular social networking platforms such as Facebook. It has been bookmarked over 75,197 times across major social bookmarking services such as Delicious. Ask.com has been mentioned at least 23,915 times throughout top social news destinations such as Google News. Over 15,406,476 discussions are happening around ask.com on the web.

Networking

660 twitter followers
0 facebook likes
1,810,000 myspace results
224 bebo results

Bookmarking

9,947 delicious bookmarks
44 bibsonomy bookmarks
65,206 folkd bookmarks

Media

28,700 youtube videos
2,580 flickr pictures
49,479 dailymotion videos

News

112 google stories
80 yahoo stories
18,501 digg submissions
910 reddit submissions
54 topix stories
4,258 topsy mentions

Other

15,248,763 yahoo questions
0 google groups
140,713 wikipedia articles
17,000 livejournal entries
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SEO Analysis

Ask.com has an average of 4,023,335 pages indexed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. There are an average of 2 links pointing back to ask.com from other websites around the world. There are a total of 44,631 listings about ask.com in DMOZ (2 categories) and Yahoo! Directory.

Indexed Pages

6,540,000 google pages
4 yahoo pages
5,530,000 bing pages

Backlinks

0 google backlinks
4 yahoo backlinks
3 bing backlinks
53,471 alexa backlinks
7/10 google pagerank

Last Crawled

Not available
Apr 3, 2013 (5:12 PM UTC)
Apr 10, 2013 (11:03 AM UTC)

Directories

23 dmoz listings
44,608 yahoo listings

Other

3 allow, 22 disallow, 1 sitemap, 5 user-agent, 0 crawl-delay
Invalid, 123 errors, 36 warnings, utf-8 charset, -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN doctype

DMOZ Categories

  • Top / Computers / Internet / Searching / Search_Engines / Ask
  • Top / World / Arabic / إقليمـي / الشرق_الأوسط / السعودية / تجارة_و_أقتصاد / كمبيوتر_و_إنترنت / محركات_بحث
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Visitor Analysis

Every month, 93,637,711 unique visitors visit ask.com, each of whom come back to the site 2.7 times. Majority of them (27.6%) come from the United States region and 0 have subscribed via RSS.

Visitors

137,975,422 compete visitors
49,300,000 quantcast visitors

Visits

360,391,802 compete visits
154,407,600 quantcast visits

Pageviews

1,126,203,585 pageviews

Syndication

542 rss subscribers

Visitor Countries

United States
27.6%
Japan
7.3%
India
6.1%
Brazil
4.5%
Germany
4.2%
United Kingdom
4.2%
Italy
4.1%
France
3.3%
Mexico
3.3%
Iran
2.9%

Traffic Analysis

On average, ask.com is ranked #21 across major traffic ranking services such as Alexa and Compete. This metric shows the popularity of ask.com compared to other sites around the web.

Traffic Ranks

#40 alexa rank
#6 compete rank
#18 quantcast rank

Blog Rank

#0 technorati rank

Rank Trend

Visitor Trend

Bounce Trend

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Revenue Analysis

Ask.com has the potential to earn $24,984,695 USD in advertisement revenue per year. If the site was up for sale, it would be worth approximately $44,972,451 USD.

Revenue

$68,451 USD per day
$2,082,058 USD per month
$24,984,695 USD per year

Worth

$44,972,451 USD
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Content Analysis

Ask.com's home page is 131112 bytes in size. It has 13 images in total (54% have "alt" attribute). Out of the 52 unique keywords found on ask.com, "asked answers" was the most dense.

Title

Ask.com - What's Your Question?

Meta Description

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

Meta Keywords

Not available

Page Size

131.11 KB

Images

2 JPG, 2 GIF, 7 PNG
7 alt tags, 6 title tags
10 internal, 3 external
13 total

Keyword Density

asked answers
11.54%
mean
5.77%
see
3.85%
questions
3.85%
real people
3.85%
askcom whats question
3.85%

Link Analysis

The home page of ask.com links to 58 web pages, 4 of which point to external sites (e.g. hire.jobvite.com). The page also consists of 47 anchor texts of which 0 are nofollow.

Internal

54 follow, 0 nofollow
46 anchor tags, 0 title tags
54 total

Outbound

4 follow, 0 nofollow
1 anchor tags, 0 title tags
4 total

Anchor Texts

  • Q&A Community
  • Images
  • News
  • Videos
  • Local
  • Reference
  • Sign In
  • Settings
  • Themes
  • Question of the Day

Outbound Domains

  • hire.jobvite.com
  • facebook.com
  • twitter.com
  • plus.google.com

Hosting Analysis

The primary web hosting server where ask.com is hosted resolves to the IP address 66.235.120.127 and is located at Oakland, California, United States.

IP Address

66.235.120.127

IP Decimal (Long)

1122728063

Reverse IP

trafrt.iad.ask.com

Server Location

Oakland, California
United States (94607)
37.8113 (lat) / -122.301 (long)

Hosting Company

IAC Search Media Inc
555 12th Street
Suite 500
Oakland, CA (94607)
United States

Domain Analysis

The ask.com domain name was registered about 1 decade ago in 1998. The domain will expire in 6 months. The domain was last updated 8 months ago.

Domain Status

Created:
Oct 19, 1998

Expires:
Oct 18, 2013

Updated:
Jul 31, 2012

Registrar

Mark Monitor

Nameservers

name2.ask.com
name1.ask.com
name5.ask.com
name6.ask.com

Registrant Contact

DNS Manager
Ask.com
555 12th Street Suite 500
Oakland CA 94607
US
+1.5109857400 Fax: +1.5109857507

Admin Contact

DNS Manager
Ask.com
555 12th Street Suite 500
Oakland CA 94607
US
+1.5109857400 Fax: +1.5109857507

Technical Contact

DNS Manager
Ask.com
555 12th Street Suite 500
Oakland CA 94607
US
+1.5109857400 Fax: +1.5109857507

Server Analysis

On average, ask.com web pages load in 1649 milliseconds. The site uses about 4 different types of web software that we know of and consists of about 79% JavaScript code.

Software Used

  • jQuery (js library)
  • Yahoo User Interface (js library)
  • Google Analytics (analytics)
  • Apache (server)

Languages Used

  • HTML (3%)
  • JavaScript (79%)
  • CSS (17%)

Page Speed

1.649 seconds

Color Analysis

The top colors used in ask.com's web template color pallete are ice blue, pale grey, lightblue. Typically, lighter colored websites are more trustworthy and easier to use.
#E4F6FC
Ice Blue
#ECFAFC
Pale Grey
#E4FAFC
Ice Blue
#ECFEFC
Pale Grey
#DCF6FC
Ice Blue
#ECF6FC
Pale Grey
#DCF2FC
Ice Blue
#DCFAFC
Ice Blue
#7CCAE4
Lightblue
#E4FEFC
Ice Blue

DNS Record Analysis

Ask.com has 1 address (A) records, 4 name server (NS) records, 1 start of authority (SOA) records, 4 mail exchanger (MX) records and 2 text (TXT) records in its domain name system (DNS).
HostClassTypeIPTTLTargetOther
ask.comINA66.235.120.12730
ask.comINNS300name5.ask.com
ask.comINNS300name6.ask.com
ask.comINNS300name1.ask.com
ask.comINNS300name2.ask.com
ask.comINSOA300mname: name0.ask.com
rname: dns.ask.com
serial: 2013040901
refresh: 10800
retry: 180
expire: 7776000
minimum-ttl: 300
ask.comINMX500ask.com.s7a2.psmtp.compri: 6
ask.comINMX500ask.com.s7b1.psmtp.compri: 6
ask.comINMX500ask.com.s7b2.psmtp.compri: 6
ask.comINMX500ask.com.s7a1.psmtp.compri: 6
ask.comINTXT300txt: google-site-verification=JFg3HrpCg9igSvCoT2pTcZl2nSFBvmq-2EV8xSVEAmE
entries: Array
ask.comINTXT300txt: v=spf1 ip4:208.185.199.15 ip4:216.112.252.7 ip4:216.112.252.205 ip4:216.112.252.45 ip4:216.112.252.10 ip4:206.80.1.113 -all
entries: Array

HTTP Header Analysis

HTTP header reponses show how ask.com responds to incoming Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from connecting clients (e.g. web browsers).
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:12:32 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/plain
tr-request-id: UWWdgApcqP8AAGWZsvcAAAFW
from-tr: trafrt016iad.io.askjeeves.info
Location: http://www.ask.com?o=0&l=dir
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
tr-request-id: UWWdgApcqkUAAFfuAVMAAABD
from-tr: trafrt007iad.io.askjeeves.info
Cache-Control: private
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:12:33 GMT
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: abt=971; Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Thu, 10-Apr-2014 17:12:33 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: cu.wz=0; Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Thu, 10-Apr-2014 17:12:33 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: gcht=; Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:10 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: oo=0; Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Wed, 10-Apr-2013 17:42:33 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: gc=; Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:10 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: tbe=1; Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Thu, 10-Apr-2014 17:12:33 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: accepting=1; Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Thu, 10-Apr-2014 17:12:33 GMT;
Path=/
Set-Cookie: user=o=0&l=dir; Domain=.ask.com; Path=/
Set-Cookie: cu=1; Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Sat, 08-Apr-2023 17:12:33 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: puser=pt=V2VkLTEwLUFwci0yMDEzLTE3OjEyOjMzLVVUQw%3D%3D&po=0&pp=dir;
Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Thu, 10-Apr-2014 17:12:33 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: gct=; Domain=.ask.com; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:10 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: qc=0; Domain=.ask.com; Path=/
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User reviews of ask.com

Author: SiteTrail

Comment: Ask has some great questions and answers, as well as being an amazing search engine.

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