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Social Media Analysis

Thestar.com has over 80 followers on popular social networking platforms such as Facebook. It has been bookmarked over 47,471 times across major social bookmarking services such as Delicious. Thestar.com has been mentioned at least 21,502 times throughout top social news destinations such as Google News. Over 17,400 discussions are happening around thestar.com on the web.

Networking

80 twitter followers
0 facebook likes
35,100 myspace results
0 bebo results

Bookmarking

45,384 delicious bookmarks
10 bibsonomy bookmarks
2,077 folkd bookmarks

Media

1,340 youtube videos
1,164 flickr pictures
50 dailymotion videos

News

7,044 google stories
41 yahoo stories
6,468 digg submissions
4,960 reddit submissions
603 topix stories
2,386 topsy mentions

Other

753 yahoo questions
712 google groups
6,635 wikipedia articles
9,300 livejournal entries
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SEO Analysis

Thestar.com has an average of 1,267,553 pages indexed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. There are an average of 1,319,218 links pointing back to thestar.com from other websites around the world. There are a total of 34 listings about thestar.com in DMOZ (3 categories) and Yahoo! Directory.

Indexed Pages

1,540,000 google pages
1,628,659 yahoo pages
634,000 bing pages

Backlinks

0 google backlinks
3,714,653 yahoo backlinks
243,000 bing backlinks
15,098 alexa backlinks
7/10 google pagerank

Last Crawled

Not available
Not available
Apr 22, 2011 (9:26 PM UTC)

Directories

34 dmoz listings
0 yahoo listings

Other

0 allow, 1 disallow, 0 sitemap, 1 user-agent, 0 crawl-delay
Invalid, 118 errors, 24 warnings, utf-8 charset, -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN doctype

DMOZ Categories

  • Top / News / Newspapers / Regional / Canada
  • Top / Kids_and_Teens / News / Newspapers
  • Top / Regional / North_America / Canada / Ontario / Localities / T / Toronto / News_and_Media / Newspapers
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Visitor Analysis

Every month, 669,265 unique visitors visit thestar.com, each of whom come back to the site 4.4 times. Majority of them (63%) come from the Canada region and 0 have subscribed via RSS.

Visitors

518,096 compete visitors
820,434 quantcast visitors

Visits

1,011,838 compete visits
4,897,258 quantcast visits

Pageviews

20,310,254 pageviews

Syndication

0 rss subscribers

Visitor Countries

Canada
63%
United States
17.7%
United Kingdom
2.5%
India
2.4%
China
1.7%
Japan
1.6%
Australia
0.7%
Thailand
0.7%
Italy
0.5%
Germany
0.5%

Traffic Analysis

On average, thestar.com is ranked #2,858 across major traffic ranking services such as Alexa and Compete. This metric shows the popularity of thestar.com compared to other sites around the web.

Traffic Ranks

#2,218 alexa rank
#3,958 compete rank
#2,398 quantcast rank

Blog Rank

#18 technorati rank

Rank Trend

Visitor Trend

Bounce Trend

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Revenue Analysis

Thestar.com has the potential to earn $450,581 USD in advertisement revenue per year. If the site was up for sale, it would be worth approximately $811,046 USD.

Revenue

$1,234 USD per day
$37,548 USD per month
$450,581 USD per year

Worth

$811,046 USD
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Content Analysis

Thestar.com's home page is 205937 bytes in size. It has 73 (86% have "alt" attribute). Out of the 938 unique keywords found on thestar.com, "kate" was the most dense.

Title

News, Toronto, GTA, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Canada, World, Breaking - thestar.com

Meta Description

Thestar.com is Canada's largest online news site. Visit thestar.com for the latest breaking news from Toronto, the GTA, Canada and the world. Plus stay current with our sports, business entertainment news and more.

Meta Keywords

the toronto star newspaper, the toronto star today, the toronto star, the toronto star news, the toronto star canada, the toronto star horoscope, the toronto star online, news toronto star, today toronto star, daily toronto star, the toronto star business, the toronto star entertainment, toronto star entertainment, toronto star comments, toronto star opinion, the star home page, multimedia, toronto star local news, toronto star world news, toronto star latest news, canadian news, news local, toronto news, toronto local news, entertainment news, business news, sports news, world news, canada news, breaking sports news, sports news online, world sports news, sports business news

Page Size

205.94 KB

Images

54 JPG, 10 GIF, 0 PNG
63 alt tags, 0 title tags
18 internal, 55 external
73 total

Keyword Density

kate
0.64%
thestarcom
0.64%
news canada
0.64%
layton
0.53%
news world
0.53%
news royal wedding
0.53%
news toronto star
0.53%
wakeup call
0.43%
sports news
0.43%
sports business entertainment
0.32%

Link Analysis

The home page of thestar.com links to 307 web pages, 69 of which point to external sites (e.g. adserver.adtechus.com). The page also 258 anchor texts of which 20 are nofollow.

Internal

221 follow, 17 nofollow
235 anchor tags, 36 title tags
238 total

Outbound

66 follow, 3 nofollow
52 anchor tags, 1 title tags
69 total

Anchor Texts

  • Connect with Facebook
  • Login/Register
  • advanced search
  • full text article archive
  • Home
  • News
  • GTA
  • Opinion
  • Business
  • Sports

Outbound Domains

  • adserver.adtechus.com
  • moneyville.ca
  • wheels.ca
  • healthzone.ca
  • parentcentral.ca
  • yourhome.ca
  • toronto.com
  • pqasb.pqarchiver.com
  • thestar.blogs.com
  • vehicles.wheels.ca

Hosting Analysis

The primary web hosting server where thestar.com is hosted resolves to the IP address 192.206.150.17 and is located at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

IP Address

192.206.150.17

IP Decimal (Long)

3234764305

Reverse IP

www.toronto.com

Server Location

Toronto, Ontario
Canada (m5e1e6)
43.6667 (lat) / -79.4167 (long)

Hosting Company

Toronto Star
One Yonge Street
Group IT
Toronto, ON (M5E-1E6)
Canada

Server Analysis

On average, thestar.com web pages load in 2084 milliseconds. The site uses about 8 different types of web software that we know of and consists of about 50% JavaScript code.

Software Used

  • jQuery (js library)
  • Facebook API (api)
  • RSS (aggregration)
  • Google Analytics (analytics)
  • Chartbeat (analytics)
  • ASP.NET (language)
  • Microsoft-IIS/7.0 (server)
  • 1.1 varnish (proxy)

Languages Used

  • HTML (26.77%)
  • JavaScript (49.72%)
  • CSS (23.51%)

Page Speed

2.084 seconds

Color Analysis

The top colors used in thestar.com's web template color pallete are very light pink, pale grey, light grey, ice. Typically, lighter colored websites are more trustworthy and easier to use.
#ECEAEC
Very Light Pink
#ECFEFC
Pale Grey
#ECF6FC
Pale Grey
#CCDEEC
Light Grey
#E4EAEC
Light Grey
#E4E6E4
Light Grey
#E4EEF4
Ice
#DCEAF4
Ice
#D4E2EC
Light Grey
#ECEEEC
Very Light Pink

WHOIS Analysis

Registrant:
Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd
One Yonge Street
Group I T
Toronto, ON M5E 1E6
ca

Domain name: THESTAR.COM


Administrative Contact:
Star, Toronto
One Yonge Street
Group I T
Toronto, ON M5E 1E6
ca
416-869-4000 Fax: 416-945-8686

Technical Contact:
Star, Toronto
One Yonge Street
Group I T
Toronto, ON M5E 1E6
ca
416-869-4000 Fax: 416-945-8686



Registration Service Provider:
easyDNS Technologies Inc.,
+1.416.535.8672
http://www.easydns.com
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.


Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 23-Sep-2009.
Record expires on 06-Nov-2011.
Record created on 07-Nov-1995.

Registrar Domain Name Help Center:
http://tucowsdomains.com

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.THESTAR.COM 192.206.151.11
NS2.THESTAR.COM 192.206.151.12


Domain status: clientTransferProhibited
clientUpdateProhibited

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DNS Record Analysis

Thestar.com has 1 address (A) records, 2 name server (NS) records, 1 start of authority (SOA) records, 2 mail exchanger (MX) records and 1 text (TXT) records in its domain name system (DNS).
HostClassTypeIPTTLTargetOther
thestar.comINA192.206.150.17600
thestar.comINNS94ns2.thestar.com
thestar.comINNS94ns1.thestar.com
thestar.comINSOA600mname: ns1.thestar.com
rname: dns-admin.thestar.ca
serial: 2011030301
refresh: 3600
retry: 900
expire: 604800
minimum-ttl: 3600
thestar.comINMX600ironport2.thestar.capri: 10
thestar.comINMX600ironport1.thestar.capri: 10
thestar.comINTXT600txt: v=spf1 mx mx:ironport1.thestar.ca mx:ironport2.thestar.ca ip4:192.206.146.0/23 ip4:192.206.148.0/22 ip4:66.252.146.42 -all
entries: Array

HTTP Header Analysis

HTTP header reponses show how thestar.com responds to incoming Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from connecting clients (e.g. web browsers).
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Location: http://www.thestar.com/
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
WS: 2-2
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:04:14 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 146
Set-Cookie: BIGipServerTOPS-WebFarm2=167842732.20480.0000; path=/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:04:01 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
WS: 2-3
cache-control: public, max-age=300
X-TOPS-CacheReason: TheStarHomePage
Content-Length: 205883
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:54:16 GMT
X-Varnish: 3137716823 3137714519
Age: 15
Via: 1.1 varnish
Connection: close
X-Cache-Svr: topsvarnish5-1
X-Cache: HIT
X-Cache-Hits: 9
Set-Cookie: BIGipServerTOPS-WebFarm5=553718700.20480.0000; path=/
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