chow.com

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Your home for recipes, restaurant reviews, food videos, and cooking how-to on the web.
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Social Media Analysis

Chow.com has over 110,721 followers on popular social networking platforms such as Facebook. It has been bookmarked over 21,352 times across major social bookmarking services such as Delicious. Chow.com has been mentioned at least 1,607 times throughout top social news destinations such as Google News. Over 10,035 discussions are happening around chow.com on the web.

Networking

99,006 twitter followers
11,715 facebook likes
347,000 myspace results
4 bebo results

Bookmarking

20,597 delicious bookmarks
0 bibsonomy bookmarks
755 folkd bookmarks

Media

1,250 youtube videos
1,423 flickr pictures
1,422 dailymotion videos

News

9 google stories
39 yahoo stories
954 digg submissions
170 reddit submissions
222 topix stories
213 topsy mentions

Other

784 yahoo questions
22 google groups
3,029 wikipedia articles
6,200 livejournal entries
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SEO Analysis

Chow.com has an average of 4,774,027 pages indexed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. There are an average of 27,067,323 links pointing back to chow.com from other websites around the world. There are a total of 3,656 listings about chow.com in DMOZ (0 categories) and Yahoo! Directory.

Indexed Pages

9,770,000 google pages
2,922,081 yahoo pages
1,630,000 bing pages

Backlinks

0 google backlinks
81,201,962 yahoo backlinks
7 bing backlinks
3,460 alexa backlinks
9/10 google pagerank

Last Crawled

Not available
Apr 19, 2011 (12:00 AM UTC)
Apr 23, 2011 (7:02 PM UTC)

Directories

3 dmoz listings
3,653 yahoo listings

Other

0 allow, 4 disallow, 1 sitemap, 1 user-agent, 0 crawl-delay
Invalid, 108 errors, 18 warnings, utf-8 charset, -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN doctype

DMOZ Categories

DMOZ categories for chow.com are not available.
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Visitor Analysis

Every month, 2,237,781 unique visitors visit chow.com, each of whom come back to the site 1.3 times. Majority of them (68.9%) come from the United States region and 0 have subscribed via RSS.

Visitors

2,316,741 compete visitors
2,158,820 quantcast visitors

Visits

2,916,962 compete visits
3,022,887 quantcast visits

Pageviews

15,312,081 pageviews

Syndication

0 rss subscribers

Visitor Countries

United States
68.9%
Canada
7.7%
China
7.1%
United Kingdom
1.8%
India
1.6%
South Korea
1.5%
Australia
1.1%
Germany
0.6%
Mexico
0.6%

Traffic Analysis

On average, chow.com is ranked #1,494 across major traffic ranking services such as Alexa and Compete. This metric shows the popularity of chow.com compared to other sites around the web.

Traffic Ranks

#2,942 alexa rank
#795 compete rank
#746 quantcast rank

Blog Rank

#0 technorati rank

Rank Trend

Visitor Trend

Bounce Trend

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Revenue Analysis

Chow.com has the potential to earn $339,697 USD in advertisement revenue per year. If the site was up for sale, it would be worth approximately $611,455 USD.

Revenue

$931 USD per day
$28,308 USD per month
$339,697 USD per year

Worth

$611,455 USD
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Content Analysis

Chow.com's home page is 39132 bytes in size. It has 21 (86% have "alt" attribute). Out of the 172 unique keywords found on chow.com, "chow" was the most dense.

Title

CHOW - Recipes, cooking tips, resources, and stories for people who love food

Meta Description

Your home for recipes, restaurant reviews, food videos, and cooking how-to on the web. Plus FUN.

Meta Keywords

Not available

Page Size

39.13 KB

Images

13 JPG, 3 GIF, 5 PNG
18 alt tags, 0 title tags
20 internal, 1 external
21 total

Keyword Density

chow
7.56%
recipes
5.23%
easter
2.91%
view gallery
1.74%
privacy policy
1.16%
cbs interactive
1.16%
people love food
1.16%
nofail mexican favorites
1.16%
stories people love
1.16%
email password
1.16%

Link Analysis

The home page of chow.com links to 110 web pages, 42 of which point to external sites (e.g. webby.aol.com). The page also 108 anchor texts of which 0 are nofollow.

Internal

68 follow, 0 nofollow
66 anchor tags, 6 title tags
68 total

Outbound

42 follow, 0 nofollow
42 anchor tags, 0 title tags
42 total

Anchor Texts

  • recipes
  • all chow
  • take me to chowhound
  • top stories
  • video
  • » Vote for Chowhound!
  • » Fiesta Favorites
  • » Your Best Muffin Recipe
  • » Thoroughbred Dishes for Kentucky Derby Day
  • Sweet Treats for Your Easter Basket

Outbound Domains

  • webby.aol.com
  • youtube.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • bnet.com
  • cbscares.com
  • cbsfilms.com
  • cbsradio.com
  • cbs.com
  • cbsinteractive.com

Hosting Analysis

The primary web hosting server where chow.com is hosted resolves to the IP address 216.239.116.167 and is located at San Francisco, California, United States.

IP Address

216.239.116.167

IP Decimal (Long)

3639571623

Reverse IP

c13-chd-www-lb.cnet.com

Server Location

San Francisco, California
United States (94105)
37.7898 (lat) / -122.394 (long)

Hosting Company

CNET Networks Inc.
235 Second Street
San Francisco, CA (94105)
United States

Domain Analysis

The chow.com domain name was registered about 1 decade ago in 1995. It will expire in 8 years and was last updated 4 months ago.

Domain Status

Created:
Oct 27, 1995

Expires:
Oct 25, 2019

Updated:
Dec 30, 2010

Registrar

Mark Monitor

Nameservers

ns2.cnet.com
ns.cnet.com
ns3.cnet.com

Registrant Contact

Domain Admin
CBS Interactive, Inc.
235 Second Street
San Francisco CA 94105
US
+1.4153442000 Fax: +1.4153442000

Admin Contact

Domain Admin
CBS Interactive, Inc.
235 Second Street
San Francisco CA 94105
US
+1.4153442000 Fax: +1.4153442000

Technical Contact

Domain Tech
CBS Technical Contact
51 W. 52nd Street
New York NY 10019
US
+1.2129754321 Fax:

Server Analysis

On average, chow.com web pages load in 1015 milliseconds. The site uses about 6 different types of web software that we know of and consists of about 80% JavaScript code.

Software Used

  • jQuery (js library)
  • Facebook API (api)
  • Google Analytics (analytics)
  • Amazon CloudFront (cdn)
  • OpenSearch (search)
  • Apache (server)

Languages Used

  • HTML (6.04%)
  • JavaScript (80.48%)
  • CSS (13.48%)

Page Speed

1.015 seconds

Color Analysis

The top colors used in chow.com's web template color pallete are scarlet, silver, dark red, darkish red, black, light grey, reddy brown. Typically, lighter colored websites are more trustworthy and easier to use.
#CC0204
Scarlet
#C4C6C4
Silver
#8C0204
Dark Red
#C40604
Scarlet
#A40204
Darkish Red
#000000
Black
#DCDEDC
Light Grey
#DCDADC
Light Grey
#740E04
Reddy Brown
#111111
Black

DNS Record Analysis

Chow.com has 1 address (A) records, 3 name server (NS) records, 1 start of authority (SOA) records, 1 mail exchanger (MX) records and 3 text (TXT) records in its domain name system (DNS).
HostClassTypeIPTTLTargetOther
chow.comINA216.239.116.167299
chow.comINNS60059ns2.cnet.com
chow.comINNS60059ns3.cnet.com
chow.comINNS60059ns.cnet.com
chow.comINSOA300mname: ns.cnet.com
rname: hostmaster.cnet.com
serial: 2011041200
refresh: 21600
retry: 1800
expire: 2419200
minimum-ttl: 300
chow.comINMX300c12-ito-mail-relay2.cnet.compri: 100
chow.comINTXT300txt: v=spf1 ip4:216.239.127.160/27 ip4:216.239.124.40 ip4:216.239.127.165 ip4:216.239.120.117 ip4:216.239.112.0/20 ip4:216.239.125.28 ip4:216.239.125.29 ip4:74.125.148.0/22 mx ~all
entries: Array
chow.comINTXT300txt: v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net ~all
entries: Array
chow.comINTXT300txt: google-site-verification:GREcJyIzEDuHGSE4OnD7oxk808TtCly7Fxpt-8j3d5Q
entries: Array

HTTP Header Analysis

HTTP header reponses show how chow.com responds to incoming Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from connecting clients (e.g. web browsers).
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:39:38 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.chow.com/
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Expires: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:39:38 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 228
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Content-Language: en-US
Cneonction: close
Cache-Control: public, max-age=300
Expires: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:44:39 GMT
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:39:39 GMT
Connection: close
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