howstuffworks.com

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HowStuffWorks explains thousands of topics, from engines to lock-picking to ESP, with video and illustrations so you can learn how everything works.
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Social Media Analysis

Howstuffworks.com has over 81,379 followers on popular social networking platforms such as Facebook. It has been bookmarked over 33,991 times across major social bookmarking services such as Delicious. Howstuffworks.com has been mentioned at least 2,816 times throughout top social news destinations such as Google News. Over 9,909 discussions are happening around howstuffworks.com on the web.

Networking

38,755 twitter followers
42,624 facebook likes
3,270 myspace results
0 bebo results

Bookmarking

33,318 delicious bookmarks
4 bibsonomy bookmarks
669 folkd bookmarks

Media

666 youtube videos
816 flickr pictures
367 dailymotion videos

News

37 google stories
27 yahoo stories
0 digg submissions
1,320 reddit submissions
774 topix stories
658 topsy mentions

Other

1,093 yahoo questions
234 google groups
1,482 wikipedia articles
7,100 livejournal entries
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SEO Analysis

Howstuffworks.com has an average of 2,752,888 pages indexed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. There are an average of 1,178,903 links pointing back to howstuffworks.com from other websites around the world. There are a total of 437 listings about howstuffworks.com in DMOZ (6 categories) and Yahoo! Directory.

Indexed Pages

4,350,000 google pages
2,578,663 yahoo pages
1,330,000 bing pages

Backlinks

0 google backlinks
3,536,570 yahoo backlinks
139 bing backlinks
11,337 alexa backlinks
8/10 google pagerank

Last Crawled

Not available
Not available
May 4, 2011 (7:22 AM UTC)

Directories

437 dmoz listings
0 yahoo listings

Other

0 allow, 31 disallow, 0 sitemap, 1 user-agent, 0 crawl-delay
Invalid, 141 errors, 221 warnings, utf-8 charset, -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN doctype

DMOZ Categories

  • Top / Kids_and_Teens / School_Time / Science
  • Top / Science / Educational_Resources
  • Top / Science / Technology / Electronics / Design
  • Top / Reference / Encyclopedias
  • Top / Reference / Education / Distance_Learning / Online_Courses / E-learning_Portals
  • Top / Kids_and_Teens / School_Time / Reference_Tools / Encyclopedias
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Visitor Analysis

Every month, 8,402,426 unique visitors visit howstuffworks.com, each of whom come back to the site 1.3 times. Majority of them (49.9%) come from the United States region and 0 have subscribed via RSS.

Visitors

7,008,928 compete visitors
9,795,923 quantcast visitors

Visits

9,529,165 compete visits
12,412,639 quantcast visits

Pageviews

52,260,027 pageviews

Syndication

0 rss subscribers

Visitor Countries

United States
49.9%
India
11.3%
United Kingdom
4.7%
Canada
4.7%
Australia
2%
Pakistan
1.7%
South Africa
1.7%
Mexico
1%
Germany
1%
China
1%

Traffic Analysis

On average, howstuffworks.com is ranked #392 across major traffic ranking services such as Alexa and Compete. This metric shows the popularity of howstuffworks.com compared to other sites around the web.

Traffic Ranks

#862 alexa rank
#207 compete rank
#106 quantcast rank

Blog Rank

#0 technorati rank

Rank Trend

Visitor Trend

Bounce Trend

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Revenue Analysis

Howstuffworks.com has the potential to earn $1,159,383 USD in advertisement revenue per year. If the site was up for sale, it would be worth approximately $2,086,889 USD.

Revenue

$3,176 USD per day
$96,615 USD per month
$1,159,383 USD per year

Worth

$2,086,889 USD
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Content Analysis

Howstuffworks.com's home page is 75429 bytes in size. It has 38 (58% have "alt" attribute). Out of the 389 unique keywords found on howstuffworks.com, "stuff" was the most dense.

Title

HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!

Meta Description

HowStuffWorks explains thousands of topics, from engines to lock-picking to ESP, with video and illustrations so you can learn how everything works.

Meta Keywords

tutorials, explanation, explain, explains, understand, understanding, tell me, students, teachers, study, educational, learn, learns, learning, research, resources, k12, k-12, help, helpf

Page Size

75.43 KB

Images

21 JPG, 10 GIF, 6 PNG
22 alt tags, 16 title tags
38 internal, 0 external
38 total

Keyword Density

stuff
2.06%
howstuffworks
2.06%
water
1.54%
readmore great links
1.03%
science tech
0.77%
theory mind
0.77%
garden lifestyle money
0.77%
lifestyle money science
0.77%
learn works
0.77%
redlight cameras
0.77%

Link Analysis

The home page of howstuffworks.com links to 193 web pages, 12 of which point to external sites (e.g. animal.discovery.com). The page also 169 anchor texts of which 0 are nofollow.

Internal

181 follow, 0 nofollow
157 anchor tags, 4 title tags
181 total

Outbound

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

Anchor Texts

  • HowStuffWorks
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • Blogs
  • Quizzes
  • Games
  • Forums
  • Adventure
  • Animals
  • Auto

Outbound Domains

  • animal.discovery.com
  • dsc.discovery.com
  • discoveryfitandhealth.com
  • hsw.uol.com.br
  • bowenwang.com.cn
  • investigation.discovery.com
  • oprah.com
  • planetgreen.discovery.com
  • science.discovery.com
  • tlc.discovery.com

Hosting Analysis

The primary web hosting server where howstuffworks.com is hosted resolves to the IP address 70.42.150.42 and is located at Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

IP Address

70.42.150.42

IP Decimal (Long)

1177196074

Reverse IP

cache-vip.iad.howstuffworks.com

Server Location

Atlanta, Georgia
United States (30326)
33.849 (lat) / -84.3609 (long)

Hosting Company

Not available

Domain Analysis

The howstuffworks.com domain name was registered about 1 decade ago in 1998. It will expire in 1 month and was last updated 1 year ago.

Domain Status

Created:
Jul 11, 1998

Expires:
Jul 11, 2011

Updated:
Jul 30, 2009

Registrar

Melbourne IT

Nameservers

AUTH-NS2.HOWSTUFFWORKS.COM
AUTH-NS3.HOWSTUFFWORKS.COM
AUTH-NS4.HOWSTUFFWORKS.COM
AUTH-NS1.HOWSTUFFWORKS.COM

Registrant Contact

HowStuffWorks, Inc.
3350 Peachtree Road
Suite 1500
Atlanta
30326
GA
UNITED STATES

Admin Contact

DNS Admin
3350 Peachtree Road
Suite 1500
Atlanta
30326
GA
UNITED STATES

+404.7604729
+404.7603458

Technical Contact

HowStuffWorks Inc.
3350 Peachtree Road
Suite 1500
Atlanta
30326
GA
UNITED STATES

+404.7604729
+404.7603458

Server Analysis

On average, howstuffworks.com web pages load in 1258 milliseconds. The site uses about 5 different types of web software that we know of and consists of about 57% JavaScript code.

Software Used

  • jQuery (js library)
  • Facebook API (api)
  • RSS (aggregration)
  • OpenSearch (search)
  • ATS/2.1.6-unstable (server)

Languages Used

  • HTML (18.4%)
  • JavaScript (56.67%)
  • CSS (24.94%)

Page Speed

1.258 seconds

Color Analysis

The top colors used in howstuffworks.com's web template color pallete are light grey, very light pink, pale grey. Typically, lighter colored websites are more trustworthy and easier to use.
#D4D2D4
Light Grey
#E4E6E4
Light Grey
#ECF2F4
Very Light Pink
#E4EAEC
Light Grey
#ECFEFC
Pale Grey
#CCD2D4
Light Grey
#D4D6D4
Light Grey
#ECEAEC
Very Light Pink
#ECEEEC
Very Light Pink
#DCDADC
Light Grey

DNS Record Analysis

Howstuffworks.com has 1 address (A) records, 4 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
howstuffworks.comINA70.42.150.423600
howstuffworks.comINNS3600auth-ns1.howstuffworks.com
howstuffworks.comINNS3600auth-ns2.howstuffworks.com
howstuffworks.comINNS3600auth-ns3.howstuffworks.com
howstuffworks.comINNS3600auth-ns4.howstuffworks.com
howstuffworks.comINSOA3600mname: auth-ns1.howstuffworks.com
rname: domains.howstuffworks.com
serial: 2011042701
refresh: 3600
retry: 1800
expire: 2419200
minimum-ttl: 3600
howstuffworks.comINMX3600mx.convexgroup.compri: 10
howstuffworks.comINTXT3600txt: v=spf1 include:_spf.howstuffworks.com -all
entries: Array

HTTP Header Analysis

HTTP header reponses show how howstuffworks.com responds to incoming Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from connecting clients (e.g. web browsers).
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 09:23:48 GMT
Server: ATS/2.1.6-unstable
Location: http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Content-Length: 304
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Age: 1499
_onnection: keep-alive
Connection: close

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: ATS/2.1.6-unstable
Last-Modified: Fri, 06 May 2011 08:00:02 GMT
P3P: CP="ALL DSP COR CUR ADMo DEVo TAIo PSAo PSDo IVAo CONi OTPi OUR NOR UNI"
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
_ontent-Length: 75421
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 09:48:47 GMT
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: target=us; path=/; domain=.howstuffworks.com
Expires: Fri, 06 May 2011 09:00:00 GMT
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