iol.co.za

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South Africa's Premier Online News Source.
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Social Media Analysis

Iol.co.za has over 2,905 followers on popular social networking platforms such as Facebook. It has been bookmarked over 6,080 times across major social bookmarking services such as Delicious. Iol.co.za has been mentioned at least 5,622 times throughout top social news destinations such as Google News. Over 2,538 discussions are happening around iol.co.za on the web.

Networking

2,905 twitter followers
0 facebook likes
12,000 myspace results
0 bebo results

Bookmarking

4,902 delicious bookmarks
0 bibsonomy bookmarks
1,178 folkd bookmarks

Media

120 youtube videos
67 flickr pictures
10 dailymotion videos

News

3,103 google stories
0 yahoo stories
1,964 digg submissions
530 reddit submissions
12 topix stories
13 topsy mentions

Other

145 yahoo questions
120 google groups
1,531 wikipedia articles
742 livejournal entries
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SEO Analysis

Iol.co.za has an average of 973,196 pages indexed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. There are an average of 523,765 links pointing back to iol.co.za from other websites around the world. There are a total of 27 listings about iol.co.za in DMOZ (1 categories) and Yahoo! Directory.

Indexed Pages

862,000 google pages
987,589 yahoo pages
1,070,000 bing pages

Backlinks

0 google backlinks
1,571,285 yahoo backlinks
10 bing backlinks
4,537 alexa backlinks
4/10 google pagerank

Last Crawled

Not available
Not available
Apr 18, 2011 (11:54 PM UTC)

Directories

27 dmoz listings
0 yahoo listings

Other

Not available
Invalid, 240 errors, 83 warnings, utf-8 charset, -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN doctype

DMOZ Categories

  • Top / Regional / Africa / South_Africa / News_and_Media
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Visitor Analysis

Every month, 104,745 unique visitors visit iol.co.za, each of whom come back to the site 1.0 times. Majority of them (74.2%) come from the South Africa region and 0 have subscribed via RSS.

Visitors

147,080 compete visitors
62,410 quantcast visitors

Visits

173,834 compete visits
34,370 quantcast visits

Pageviews

14,143,844 pageviews

Syndication

3 rss subscribers

Visitor Countries

South Africa
74.2%
United States
6.6%
United Kingdom
3.6%
India
2.5%
Germany
1.1%
Nigeria
0.8%
Australia
0.7%
Canada
0.7%
Ghana
0.7%
Ireland
0.6%

Traffic Analysis

On average, iol.co.za is ranked #15,331 across major traffic ranking services such as Alexa and Compete. This metric shows the popularity of iol.co.za compared to other sites around the web.

Traffic Ranks

#3,185 alexa rank
#14,802 compete rank
#28,006 quantcast rank

Blog Rank

#292 technorati rank

Rank Trend

Visitor Trend

Bounce Trend

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Revenue Analysis

Iol.co.za has the potential to earn $313,780 USD in advertisement revenue per year. If the site was up for sale, it would be worth approximately $564,804 USD.

Revenue

$860 USD per day
$26,148 USD per month
$313,780 USD per year

Worth

$564,804 USD
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Content Analysis

Iol.co.za's home page is 235650 bytes in size. It has 137 (82% have "alt" attribute). Out of the 2,208 unique keywords found on iol.co.za, "news" was the most dense.

Title

IOL | Breaking News | South Africa News | World News | Sport | Business | Entertainment | IOL.co.za

Meta Description

South Africa's Premier Online News Source. Discover the world of IOL, News South Africa, Sport, Business, Financial, World News, Entertainment, Technology, Motoring, Travel, Property, Calssifieds and more.

Meta Keywords

IOL, News, Independent Online, Breaking News, News Online, News Headlines, South Africa News, SA News, Daily News, World News, Sport, Business, Financial, Entertainment, Technology, Motoring, Travel, Property, Jobs, Newspaper, The Star, Cape Times, Mercury, Cape Argus, PTA News, DFA, iol.co.za

Page Size

235.65 KB

Images

84 JPG, 31 GIF, 10 PNG
113 alt tags, 0 title tags
126 internal, 11 external
137 total

Keyword Density

news
1.86%
world
0.77%
travel
0.63%
south africa
0.45%
zumas daughter
0.32%
malema defends ancyls
0.32%
defends ancyls proposals
0.32%
zuma wedding
0.27%
lavish wedding zumas
0.27%
south africas
0.27%

Link Analysis

The home page of iol.co.za links to 746 web pages, 108 of which point to external sites (e.g. adserver.adtech.de). The page also 611 anchor texts of which 22 are nofollow.

Internal

638 follow, 0 nofollow
611 anchor tags, 0 title tags
638 total

Outbound

86 follow, 22 nofollow
89 anchor tags, 0 title tags
108 total

Anchor Texts

  • Sign up now
  • Business Directory
  • Maps & Directions
  • Shanghai stunners
  • Royal wedding
  • Advanced Search
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Sport

Outbound Domains

  • adserver.adtech.de
  • wegotads.co.za
  • iolproperty.co.za
  • ioljobs.co.za
  • iolcwc2011.co.za
  • iolsportzone.co.za
  • babynet.co.za
  • ioldating.co.za
  • iolgames.co.za
  • gq.co.za

Hosting Analysis

The primary web hosting server where iol.co.za is hosted resolves to the IP address 196.38.8.254 and is located at Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

IP Address

196.38.8.254

IP Decimal (Long)

3290827006

Reverse IP

196.38.8.254

Server Location

Pretoria, Gauteng
South Africa ()
-25.7069 (lat) / 28.2294 (long)

Hosting Company

African Network Information Center
Level 11ABC
Raffles Tower
Lot 19, Cybercity
Ebene, Mauritius

Server Analysis

On average, iol.co.za web pages load in 2398 milliseconds. The site uses about 5 different types of web software that we know of and consists of about 33% JavaScript code.

Software Used

  • jQuery (js library)
  • RSS (aggregration)
  • Google Analytics (analytics)
  • Apache-Coyote/1.1 (server)
  • 1.1 varnish (proxy)

Languages Used

  • HTML (42.54%)
  • JavaScript (32.56%)
  • CSS (24.9%)

Page Speed

2.398 seconds

Color Analysis

The top colors used in iol.co.za's web template color pallete are light grey, very light pink, dark, black, almost black. Typically, lighter colored websites are more trustworthy and easier to use.
#D4D6D4
Light Grey
#ECEEF4
Very Light Pink
#D4D6DC
Light Grey
#ECF2F4
Very Light Pink
#1C1A1C
Dark
#DCDADC
Light Grey
#1C1E24
Dark
#ECEEEC
Very Light Pink
#000000
Black
#14161C
Almost Black

WHOIS Analysis

simple CO.ZA whois server
The CO.ZA simple whois server
© Copyright UniForum SA
Use of this facility subject to theterms of site usage
Your query has generated the following reply:-


Search on iol (.co.za)
Match: One

Domain: iol.co.za

Accounting info....
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1999-12-06| U | 0.00| |1999-12-06| 1 | 71468|Aztec
2000-10-16| R | 50.00| |2000-12-14| 2 | 123585|Aztec
2001-01-18| U | 0.00| |2001-01-18| 0 | 0|IOL
2001-09-03| R | 50.00| |2001-09-10| 1 | 176517|IOL
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0c. emailposted : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:34:39 +0200 (SAST)
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2b. registrantpostaladdress: P O Box 1014, Gauteng, 2000, South Africa
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DNS Record Analysis

Iol.co.za has 1 address (A) records, 3 name server (NS) records, 1 start of authority (SOA) records, 2 mail exchanger (MX) records and 2 text (TXT) records in its domain name system (DNS).
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HTTP Header Analysis

HTTP header reponses show how iol.co.za responds to incoming Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from connecting clients (e.g. web browsers).
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Location: http://www.iol.co.za/
Cache-Control: public, max-age=300
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 0
X-Cacheable: YES
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:05:16 GMT
X-Varnish: 2559242518 2559221316
Age: 248
Via: 1.1 varnish
Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Cache-Control: public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300
Expires: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:05:55 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:05:19 GMT
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Connection: close
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