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Social Media Analysis

Howtogeek.com has over 20,319 followers on popular social networking platforms such as Facebook. It has been bookmarked over 5,032 times across major social bookmarking services such as Delicious. Howtogeek.com has been mentioned at least 1,133 times throughout top social news destinations such as Google News. Over 390 discussions are happening around howtogeek.com on the web.

Networking

20,319 twitter followers
0 facebook likes
85 myspace results
0 bebo results

Bookmarking

4,848 delicious bookmarks
0 bibsonomy bookmarks
184 folkd bookmarks

Media

112 youtube videos
0 flickr pictures
1 dailymotion videos

News

1 google stories
1 yahoo stories
825 digg submissions
170 reddit submissions
4 topix stories
132 topsy mentions

Other

68 yahoo questions
115 google groups
14 wikipedia articles
193 livejournal entries
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SEO Analysis

Howtogeek.com has an average of 29,650 pages indexed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. There are an average of 85,385 links pointing back to howtogeek.com from other websites around the world. There are a total of 1 listings about howtogeek.com in DMOZ (1 categories) and Yahoo! Directory.

Indexed Pages

36,300 google pages
24,150 yahoo pages
28,500 bing pages

Backlinks

0 google backlinks
256,144 yahoo backlinks
10 bing backlinks
3,716 alexa backlinks
7/10 google pagerank

Last Crawled

Not available
Apr 20, 2011 (12:00 AM UTC)
Apr 20, 2011 (4:47 AM UTC)

Directories

1 dmoz listings
0 yahoo listings

Other

1 allow, 8 disallow, 0 sitemap, 5 user-agent, 0 crawl-delay
Not available

DMOZ Categories

  • Top / Computers / FAQs,_Help,_and_Tutorials
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Visitor Analysis

Every month, 711,620 unique visitors visit howtogeek.com, each of whom come back to the site 1.8 times. Majority of them (33.4%) come from the United States region and 0 have subscribed via RSS.

Visitors

917,425 compete visitors
505,814 quantcast visitors

Visits

1,456,649 compete visits
1,133,006 quantcast visits

Pageviews

15,641,716 pageviews

Syndication

91,484 rss subscribers

Visitor Countries

United States
33.4%
India
13.4%
United Kingdom
6.1%
Canada
3.3%
Germany
2.2%
Australia
2.1%
Italy
1.7%
China
1.6%
Pakistan
1.6%
Sweden
1.6%

Traffic Analysis

On average, howtogeek.com is ranked #3,047 across major traffic ranking services such as Alexa and Compete. This metric shows the popularity of howtogeek.com compared to other sites around the web.

Traffic Ranks

#2,880 alexa rank
#2,204 compete rank
#4,057 quantcast rank

Blog Rank

#372 technorati rank

Rank Trend

Visitor Trend

Bounce Trend

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Revenue Analysis

Howtogeek.com has the potential to earn $347,010 USD in advertisement revenue per year. If the site was up for sale, it would be worth approximately $624,618 USD.

Revenue

$951 USD per day
$28,918 USD per month
$347,010 USD per year

Worth

$624,618 USD
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Content Analysis

Howtogeek.com's home page is 74156 bytes in size. It has 62 (5% have "alt" attribute). Out of the 981 unique keywords found on howtogeek.com, "ago jason fitzpatrick" was the most dense.

Title

How-To Geek - Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek

Meta Description

Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek

Meta Keywords

Windows, Windows Vista, Ubuntu, Programming, Networking, Firefox, Help, Solaris, Linux, Unix, VMware ,SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Analytics, Suse, Redhat, network security, firewall, postgresql,database, how to, how-to, howto, hints, tips, shell scripts, system administration

Page Size

74.16 KB

Images

17 JPG, 25 GIF, 14 PNG
3 alt tags, 1 title tags
25 internal, 37 external
62 total

Keyword Density

ago jason fitzpatrick
1.33%
howto geek
1.33%
jason fitzpatrick comments
1.33%
days ago jason
1.33%
windows
1.22%
asian angel
1.22%
angel comments
1.22%
ago asian
1.22%
computer
0.82%
simple
0.71%

Link Analysis

The home page of howtogeek.com links to 224 web pages, 15 of which point to external sites (e.g. ad.doubleclick.net). The page also 167 anchor texts of which 0 are nofollow.

Internal

209 follow, 0 nofollow
160 anchor tags, 116 title tags
209 total

Outbound

15 follow, 0 nofollow
8 anchor tags, 0 title tags
15 total

Anchor Texts

  • Login
  • Signup
  • Desktop Fun: Minecraft Wallpaper Collection Series 1 [Bonus Size]
  • Asian Angel
  • Comments (6)
  • Search Through Browsing History Easier in Chrome and Iron
  • Add Tranquil Beauty to Your Desktop with the Waterdrops Theme for Windows 7
  • Comments (0)
  • Hack a DSLR for DIY Infrared Photography
  • Jason Fitzpatrick

Outbound Domains

  • ad.doubleclick.net
  • twitter.com
  • sysadmingeek.com
  • productivegeek.com
  • facebook.com
  • digg.com
  • howtogeek.stumbleupon.com
  • last.fm
  • toolsgeek.com
  • techmedianetwork.com

Hosting Analysis

The primary web hosting server where howtogeek.com is hosted resolves to the IP address 208.43.115.82 and is located at Dallas, Texas, United States.

IP Address

208.43.115.82

IP Decimal (Long)

3492508498

Reverse IP

howtogeek.com

Server Location

Dallas, Texas
United States (75207)
32.7825 (lat) / -96.8207 (long)

Hosting Company

SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
1950 N Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, TX (75207)
United States

Server Analysis

On average, howtogeek.com web pages load in 3914 milliseconds. The site uses about 10 different types of web software that we know of and consists of about 56% JavaScript code.

Software Used

  • jQuery (js library)
  • WordPress (cms)
  • RSS (aggregration)
  • DoubleClick (ads)
  • QuantCast (analytics)
  • Google Analytics (analytics)
  • OpenID (api)
  • OpenSearch (search)
  • PHP/5.2.17 (language)
  • LiteSpeed (server)

Languages Used

  • HTML (33.16%)
  • JavaScript (55.67%)
  • CSS (11.17%)

Page Speed

3.914 seconds

Color Analysis

The top colors used in howtogeek.com's web template color pallete are black, dark, light grey, very light pink, silver. Typically, lighter colored websites are more trustworthy and easier to use.
#000000
Black
#1C2234
Dark
#D4D2D4
Light Grey
#E4E6EC
Light Grey
#D4D6D4
Light Grey
#ECEAEC
Very Light Pink
#111111
Black
#E4E6E4
Light Grey
#C4C2C4
Silver
#CCCECC
Silver

WHOIS Analysis

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Domain Name: howtogeek.com

Registrant Contact:
Lowell Heddings
How-To Geek, LLC
PO Box 711053
Oak Hill, Virginia 20171-1053
US
+1.2139471032

Administrative Contact:
Lowell Heddings
How-To Geek, LLC
PO Box 711053
Oak Hill, Virginia 20171-1053
US
+1.2139471032

Technical Contact:
Lowell Heddings
How-To Geek, LLC
PO Box 711053
Oak Hill, Virginia 20171-1053
US
+1.2139471032

Billing Contact:
Lowell Heddings
How-To Geek, LLC
PO Box 711053
Oak Hill, Virginia 20171-1053
US
+1.2139471032

Record created on 2006-09-11 04:09:57.
Record expires on 2016-09-11 04:09:57.

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DNS Record Analysis

Howtogeek.com has 1 address (A) records, 2 name server (NS) records, 1 start of authority (SOA) records, 7 mail exchanger (MX) records and 1 text (TXT) records in its domain name system (DNS).
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HTTP Header Analysis

HTTP header reponses show how howtogeek.com responds to incoming Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from connecting clients (e.g. web browsers).
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:28:17 GMT
Server: LiteSpeed
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Vary: Cookie
X-Pingback: http://www.howtogeek.com/xmlrpc.php
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Location: http://www.howtogeek.com/
Content-Length: 0
X-Geek: What's black and white and red all over? Please don't kill our
penguin-powered server.
X-Awesome: If you found this header please email us about a writing job.

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:28:17 GMT
Server: LiteSpeed
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
ETag: "12188-4db40892-5e8099"
Last-Modified: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:25:06 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 74120
X-Geek: What's black and white and red all over? Please don't kill our
penguin-powered server.
X-Awesome: If you found this header please email us about a writing job.
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