loc.gov

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The Library of Congress.

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Analysis

Social Media Analysis

Loc.gov has over 32 followers on popular social networking platforms such as Facebook. It has been bookmarked over 28,308 times across major social bookmarking services such as Delicious. Loc.gov has been mentioned at least 1,391 times throughout top social news destinations such as Google News. Over 17,504 discussions are happening around loc.gov on the web.

Networking 32 twitter followers 0 facebook likes 1,430 myspace results 0 bebo results	Bookmarking 28,054 delicious bookmarks 4 bibsonomy bookmarks 250 folkd bookmarks	Media 1,980 youtube videos 22,096 flickr pictures 20 dailymotion videos
News 31 google stories 10 yahoo stories 445 digg submissions 660 reddit submissions 12 topix stories 233 topsy mentions	Other 671 yahoo questions 925 google groups 12,608 wikipedia articles 3,300 livejournal entries

Social Media Score Widget
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SEO Analysis

Loc.gov has an average of 4,443,098 pages indexed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. There are an average of 2,122,074 links pointing back to loc.gov from other websites around the world. There are a total of 3,338 listings about loc.gov in DMOZ (4 categories) and Yahoo! Directory.

Indexed Pages 6,510,000 google pages 6,819,252 yahoo pages 41 bing pages	Backlinks 0 google backlinks 6,366,207 yahoo backlinks 15 bing backlinks 91,331 alexa backlinks 9/10 google pagerank	Last Crawled Not available Apr 20, 2011 (12:00 AM UTC) Feb 21, 2012 (6:35 AM UTC)
Directories 1,427 dmoz listings 1,911 yahoo listings	Other 0 allow, 10 disallow, 0 sitemap, 2 user-agent, 1 crawl-delay Valid, 0 errors, 2 warnings, utf-8 charset, HTML5 doctype
DMOZ Categories Top / Reference / Libraries / Research Top / Computers / Internet / Resources / Research Top / Recreation / Antiques / Photographs Top / Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Legislative_Branch / Agencies_that_Support_Congress / Library_of_Congress

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Visitor Analysis

Every month, 1,677,358 unique visitors visit loc.gov, each of whom come back to the site 1.8 times. Majority of them (58.3%) come from the United States region and 0 have subscribed via RSS.

Visitors 1,542,714 compete visitors 1,812,002 quantcast visitors	Visits 2,242,591 compete visits 3,737,665 quantcast visits	Pageviews 14,447,769 pageviews
Syndication 0 rss subscribers
Visitor Countries United States 58.3% India 4.8% United Kingdom 3.1% Canada 2.9% Mexico 2.4% Germany 1.9% Russia 1.8% China 1.6% Italy 1.4% Australia 1.3%

Traffic Analysis

On average, loc.gov is ranked #1,733 across major traffic ranking services such as Alexa and Compete. This metric shows the popularity of loc.gov compared to other sites around the web.

Traffic Ranks

#3,118 alexa rank

#1,256 compete rank

#824 quantcast rank

Blog Rank

#0 technorati rank

Rank Trend

Visitor Trend

Bounce Trend

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Revenue Analysis

Loc.gov has the potential to earn $320,522 USD in advertisement revenue per year. If the site was up for sale, it would be worth approximately $576,940 USD.

Revenue

$878 USD per day

$26,710 USD per month

$320,522 USD per year

Worth

$576,940 USD

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Content Analysis

Loc.gov's home page is 24472 bytes in size. It has 19 images in total (68% have "alt" attribute). Out of the 312 unique keywords found on loc.gov, "library congress" was the most dense.

Title

Library of Congress Home

Meta Description

The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.

Meta Keywords

library of congress, nation's library, national library, catalog, copyright office, american memory, global gateway, exhibitions, america's library, thomas, national digital preservation program, researchers, librarians, teachers, today in history, poetry, poet laureate, digital images, maps, motion pictures, video, sound recordings, audio, prints, photographs

Page Size

24.47 KB

Images

14 JPG, 4 GIF, 1 PNG
13 alt tags, 0 title tags
19 internal, 0 external
19 total

Keyword Density

library congress

2.56%

national

1.92%

history

1.92%

collections

1.92%

external link

0.96%

derivatives derivativeurl

0.96%

videoid mediainstance playersize

0.96%

mediainstance playersize smallstandard

0.96%

playersize smallstandard shortname

0.96%

mediatype ccurl

0.96%

Link Analysis

The home page of loc.gov links to 106 web pages, 15 of which point to external sites (e.g. read.gov). The page also consists of 91 anchor texts of which 0 are nofollow.

Internal 91 follow, 0 nofollow 83 anchor tags, 0 title tags 91 total	Outbound 15 follow, 0 nofollow 9 anchor tags, 0 title tags 15 total
Anchor Texts skip to About the Library Ask a Librarian Digital Collections Library Catalogs The Library's Mission The History of the Library Awards & Honors Jobs & Fellowships Frequently Asked Questions Support the Library	Outbound Domains read.gov copyright.gov thomas.gov digitalpreservation.gov wdl.org facebook.com twitter.com youtube.com flickr.com itunes.apple.com

Hosting Analysis

The primary web hosting server where loc.gov is hosted resolves to the IP address 140.147.249.7 and is located at Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

IP Address

140.147.249.7

IP Decimal (Long)

2358507783

Reverse IP

rs7.loc.gov

Server Location

Washington, District of Columbia
United States ()
38.9097 (lat) / -77.0231 (long)

Hosting Company

Library of Congress, Information Technology Services
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC (20540)
United States

Server Analysis

On average, loc.gov web pages load in 923 milliseconds. The site uses about 5 different types of web software that we know of and consists of about 51% JavaScript code.

Software Used

SWFObject (js library)
jQuery (js library)
CDN (cdn)
Google Analytics (analytics)
Apache (server)

Languages Used

HTML (10.54%)
JavaScript (51.4%)
CSS (38.06%)

Page Speed

0.923 seconds

Color Analysis

The top colors used in loc.gov's web template color pallete are very light pink, light grey, pale grey. Typically, lighter colored websites are more trustworthy and easier to use.

#ECF2F4

Very Light Pink

#ECEEF4

Very Light Pink

#DCDEDC

Light Grey

#ECEAEC

Very Light Pink

#DCDADC

Light Grey

#ECEEEC

Very Light Pink

#D4DADC

Light Grey

#ECF6FC

Pale Grey

#E4EAEC

Light Grey

#D4DAE4

Light Grey

WHOIS Analysis

% DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready
Domain Name: LOC.GOV
Status: ACTIVE

>>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 05:05:14 UTC <<<
Please be advised that this whois server only contains information pertaining
to the .GOV domain. For information for other domains please use the whois
server at RS.INTERNIC.NET.

DNS Record Analysis

Loc.gov has 1 address (A) records, 3 name server (NS) records, 1 start of authority (SOA) records, 2 mail exchanger (MX) records and 0 text (TXT) records in its domain name system (DNS).

Host	Class	Type	IP	TTL	Target	Other

loc.gov	IN	A	140.147.249.7	899

loc.gov	IN	NS		900	rs1.loc.gov

loc.gov	IN	NS		900	ns3.loc.gov

loc.gov	IN	NS		900	ns4.loc.gov

loc.gov	IN	SOA		900		mname: rs1.loc.gov rname: root.rs1.loc.gov serial: 2012012421 refresh: 1800 retry: 300 expire: 1209600 minimum-ttl: 3600

loc.gov	IN	MX		900	pps2b.loc.gov	pri: 5

loc.gov	IN	MX		900	pps2.loc.gov	pri: 5

HTTP Header Analysis

HTTP header reponses show how loc.gov responds to incoming Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from connecting clients (e.g. web browsers).

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:44:40 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.loc.gov/index.html
Content-Length: 237
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:44:40 GMT
Server: Apache
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

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