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Play chess online, learn new chess strategies, tactics and rules, study chess games and openings - all FREE on Chess.
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Social Media Analysis

Chess.com has over 24,931 followers on popular social networking platforms such as Facebook. It has been bookmarked over 3,106 times across major social bookmarking services such as Delicious. Chess.com has been mentioned at least 1,063 times throughout top social news destinations such as Google News. Over 17,829 discussions are happening around chess.com on the web.

Networking

1,386 twitter followers
23,545 facebook likes
893,000 myspace results
1 bebo results

Bookmarking

1,006 delicious bookmarks
4 bibsonomy bookmarks
2,096 folkd bookmarks

Media

907 youtube videos
221 flickr pictures
2,211 dailymotion videos

News

2 google stories
0 yahoo stories
993 digg submissions
40 reddit submissions
10 topix stories
18 topsy mentions

Other

985 yahoo questions
974 google groups
9,070 wikipedia articles
6,800 livejournal entries
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SEO Analysis

Chess.com has an average of 264,463 pages indexed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. There are an average of 33,603 links pointing back to chess.com from other websites around the world. There are a total of 2,159 listings about chess.com in DMOZ (1 categories) and Yahoo! Directory.

Indexed Pages

211,000 google pages
514,088 yahoo pages
68,300 bing pages

Backlinks

0 google backlinks
100,793 yahoo backlinks
15 bing backlinks
705 alexa backlinks
5/10 google pagerank

Last Crawled

Not available
Apr 22, 2011 (12:00 AM UTC)
Apr 19, 2011 (12:16 AM UTC)

Directories

22 dmoz listings
2,137 yahoo listings

Other

0 allow, 6 disallow, 0 sitemap, 1 user-agent, 0 crawl-delay
Invalid, 124 errors, 15 warnings, utf-8 charset, -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN doctype

DMOZ Categories

  • Top / Games / Board_Games / Abstract / Battle_Games / Chess
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Visitor Analysis

Every month, 246,942 unique visitors visit chess.com, each of whom come back to the site 18.7 times. Majority of them (35.4%) come from the United States region and 0 have subscribed via RSS.

Visitors

298,140 compete visitors
195,743 quantcast visitors

Visits

2,657,481 compete visits
6,561,797 quantcast visits

Pageviews

16,690,679 pageviews

Syndication

0 rss subscribers

Visitor Countries

United States
35.4%
India
8.4%
Iran
4.2%
Canada
3.3%
United Kingdom
3.2%
Germany
2.8%
Spain
2.3%
Russia
2%
Japan
1.8%
Ireland
1.7%

Traffic Analysis

On average, chess.com is ranked #6,597 across major traffic ranking services such as Alexa and Compete. This metric shows the popularity of chess.com compared to other sites around the web.

Traffic Ranks

#2,699 alexa rank
#6,948 compete rank
#10,144 quantcast rank

Blog Rank

#0 technorati rank

Rank Trend

Visitor Trend

Bounce Trend

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Revenue Analysis

Chess.com has the potential to earn $370,281 USD in advertisement revenue per year. If the site was up for sale, it would be worth approximately $666,506 USD.

Revenue

$1,014 USD per day
$30,857 USD per month
$370,281 USD per year

Worth

$666,506 USD
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Content Analysis

Chess.com's home page is 30799 bytes in size. It has 8 (13% have "alt" attribute). Out of the 206 unique keywords found on chess.com, "ndash" was the most dense.

Title

Play Chess Online - Free Chess Games at Chess.com

Meta Description

Play chess online, learn new chess strategies, tactics and rules, study chess games and openings - all FREE on Chess.com - the #1 online chess site!

Meta Keywords

chess, online chess, play chess, free chess play, chess strategy, free chess download, chess tactics, learn chess rules, chess news

Page Size

30.80 KB

Images

2 JPG, 2 GIF, 4 PNG
1 alt tags, 0 title tags
0 internal, 8 external
8 total

Keyword Density

ndash
7.77%
chesscom
4.37%
openings
1.94%
learn chess
1.94%
chess chess
1.46%
chess play
1.46%
chess online chess
1.46%
play chess online
1.46%
daniel rensch
0.97%
online chess games
0.97%

Link Analysis

The home page of chess.com links to 73 web pages, 2 of which point to external sites (e.g. addthis.com). The page also 62 anchor texts of which 3 are nofollow.

Internal

70 follow, 1 nofollow
62 anchor tags, 16 title tags
71 total

Outbound

0 follow, 2 nofollow
1 anchor tags, 0 title tags
2 total

Anchor Texts

  • Chess
  • What is Chess.com? The #1 place to play free online chess and learn chess rules, openings, & strategies. You can also find chess games, explore downloads, & review chess sets. -> Learn more!
  • Register
  • Help
  • Login
  • utmx_section("Hero Image");
  • utmx_section("H1 Tag"); Play Chess for FREE at the #1 Chess Site!
  • - Unlimited Chess Games & Free Tournaments - Challenge Your Friends & Meet New Players - Improve Your Rating with Training Videos 3,235,565 members... and 8,505 are online now!
  • utmx_section("Button Text"); Sign Up ยป It's FREE and EASY!
  • Play w/ Friends Chess at any time!

Outbound Domains

  • addthis.com
  • sanjose.bbb.org

Hosting Analysis

The primary web hosting server where chess.com is hosted resolves to the IP address 68.71.245.5 and is located at Beverly Hills, California, United States.

IP Address

68.71.245.5

IP Decimal (Long)

1145566469

Reverse IP

shirov.chess.com

Server Location

Beverly Hills, California
United States (90211)
34.0646 (lat) / -118.382 (long)

Hosting Company

Zerolag Communications, Inc.
289 S. Robertson Blvd #441
Beverly Hills, CA (90211)
United States

Domain Analysis

The chess.com domain name was registered about 1 decade ago in 1994. It will expire in 4 years and was last updated 4 months ago.

Domain Status

Created:
Aug 11, 1994

Expires:
Jul 1, 2015

Updated:
Dec 28, 2010

Registrar

GoDaddy

Nameservers

NS1.ZEROLAG.COM
NS2.ZEROLAG.COM

Registrant Contact

Not available

Admin Contact

Not available

Technical Contact

Not available

Server Analysis

On average, chess.com web pages load in 2105 milliseconds. The site uses about 5 different types of web software that we know of and consists of about 74% JavaScript code.

Software Used

  • jQuery (js library)
  • Facebook API (api)
  • Google Analytics (analytics)
  • Amazon S3 (cdn)
  • nginx (server)

Languages Used

  • HTML (6.45%)
  • JavaScript (73.75%)
  • CSS (19.79%)

Page Speed

2.105 seconds

Color Analysis

The top colors used in chess.com's web template color pallete are light grey, dark grey, very light pink. Typically, lighter colored websites are more trustworthy and easier to use.
#E4E6E4
Light Grey
#34322C
Dark Grey
#ECEEEC
Very Light Pink
#E4E2E4
Light Grey
#ECEAEC
Very Light Pink
#DCDEDC
Light Grey
#ECEEE4
Very Light Pink
#ECEAE4
Very Light Pink
#E4EAE4
Light Grey
#342E2C
Dark Grey

DNS Record Analysis

Chess.com has 1 address (A) records, 2 name server (NS) records, 1 start of authority (SOA) records, 1 mail exchanger (MX) records and 1 text (TXT) records in its domain name system (DNS).
HostClassTypeIPTTLTargetOther
chess.comINA68.71.245.514397
chess.comINNS14400ns1.zerolag.com
chess.comINNS14400ns2.zerolag.com
chess.comINSOA14400mname: ns1.zerolag.com
rname: hostmaster.zerolag.com
serial: 2011031500
refresh: 21600
retry: 3600
expire: 2419200
minimum-ttl: 14400
chess.comINMX14400mail.chess.compri: 10
chess.comINTXT14400txt: v=spf1 ip4:67.201.34.169 ip4:67.201.34.182 mx ~all
entries: Array

HTTP Header Analysis

HTTP header reponses show how chess.com responds to incoming Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from connecting clients (e.g. web browsers).
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:41:32 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Connection: close
Location: http://www.chess.com/
Content-Length: 229
Expires: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:41:32 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: nginx
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:41:34 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
P3P: CP="ALL DSP COR LAW CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa OUR BUS IND ONL UNI COM NAV DEM CNT"
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:41:34 GMT
Content-Length: 30797
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=65q4cqr9kh35uri11uvkmufnf4; path=/; domain=.chess.com
Set-Cookie: view_counter=65q4cqr9kh35uri11uvkmufnf4; expires=Sun, 08-May-2011
12:41:34 GMT; path=/
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