Reference.com

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WebStator Rank : 4.5/5

Reference.com is the No. 206 ranked in most visited website in the world (ranked 78 in its main country : ETATS-UNIS). The site can be estimated to be worth € 87 023 475 with a potential monthly income of € 168 993 generated by advertising. The site has a Pagerank™ of 8 /10, is hosted on the IP : 66.235.120.211 (Oakland, ETATS-UNIS look at the map) and is not registered in the DMOZ directory. This site has been online for 26 years, 8 months and 2 days and has accumulated at least 54 328 links. Our data have been updated at 20:20:25, 07 February 2013 and we found a number of unique visitors of 828 795 per day for 1 877 700 page views. The loading time of the site is medium : 1.11230 seconds (page weight : 57,00 Mo).

Overview of Reference.com

Titre :	Reference.com - A Free Online Encyclopedia & Information Reference
Global Alexa ™ Rank:	206
Pagerank :
Main country:	ETATS-UNIS (47.7% of visits - ranked No. 78 in the country)
IP address:	66.235.120.211
Server Location:	Oakland, ETATS-UNIS see on map
Visitors Per Day:	828 795 (-5.86%)
Page views per day:	1 877 700 (-5.44%)
*Monthly income :**	€ 168 993
*Website Value :**	€ 87 023 475
"Adult" Content:	No
Language (ISO code):	EN
Site speed:	1.11230 seconds
Description :	Reference.com - a free online encyclopedia and information reference. Research articles from Columbia Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Britannica.

Queries linked with the domain

Alexa™ Traffic data

Leaderboard

Visits

Pageviews

DPV / User

% Bounces

% Search

Time

	Day		Week		1 Month		3 Months
	Value	Dvlpment	Value	Dvlpment	Value	Dvlpment	Value	Dvlpment
Alexa Rank™	177	-8	194	+5	199	-32	206	+26
Visits
→ Rank → Per million*	165	-2	174	0	178	-37	187	+12
→ Rank → Per million*	6 120	+5%	5 500	-0.29%	5 360	+20.7%	5 023	-5.86%
Pageviews
→ Rank → Per million* → Par user	292	-24	314	1	320	-73	334	48
	202	+12%	185	-2.85%	179.8	+24.3%	170.7	-5.44%
	3.53	+7%	3.52	-2.49%	3.54	+2.9%	3.52	+0.6%

* Number of visits or page views of this site per million internet user. For example, a schedule set like this: In 3 months, for one million visitors, 5 023 of them visited Reference.com, this figure is down by -5.86% from the previous week.

Domain name

The domain name Reference.com has been registered for 26 years, 8 months and 2 days. The registrar is Markmonitor.com. The expiration date is 26 July 2019. See more information about Reference.com WHOIS

Domain name:	Reference.com
Registrar :	Markmonitor.com
Age :	26 years, 8 months, 2 days
Creation :	24 January 1995
Modification :	08 February 2013
Expires :	26 July 2019

Distribution of daily visits from around the world

The total number of daily visits to Reference.com (828 795) is geographically distributed as follows:

1.	ETATS-UNIS - 395 335 (47.7%)	2.	INDE - 99 455 (12.0%)
3.	ROYAUME-UNI - 46 413 (5.6%)	4.	CANADA - 36 467 (4.4%)
5.	AUSTRALIE - 21 549 (2.6%)	6.	PHILIPPINES - 18 233 (2.2%)
7.	SINGAPOUR - 12 432 (1.5%)	8.	PAKISTAN - 11 603 (1.4%)
9.	AFRIQUE DU SUD - 8 288 (1.0%)	10.	COREE, REPUBLIQUE DE - 8 288 (1.0%)
11.	THAILANDE - 7 459 (0.9%)	12.	NIGERIA - 7 459 (0.9%)
13.	MALAISIE - 6 630 (0.8%)	14.	PAYS-BAS - 5 802 (0.7%)
15.	MEXIQUE - 5 802 (0.7%)	16.	ESPAGNE - 4 973 (0.6%)
17.	ALLEMAGNE - 4 973 (0.6%)	18.	FRANCE - 4 973 (0.6%)
19.	BRESIL - 4 973 (0.6%)	20.	NORVEGE - 4 973 (0.6%)

Server Location:

The IP address of the server (66.235.120.211) is located near: Oakland (ETATS-UNIS).

Subdomain contribution in daily traffic

1.	thesaurus.com	44.72%
2.	dictionary.reference.com	54.84%
3.	ask.reference.com	8.62%
4.	reference.com	6.39%
5.	translate.reference.com	1.53%
6.	dynamo.dictionary.com	0.99%
7.	spanish.dictionary.com	0.45%
8.	quotes.dictionary.com	0.92%
9.	app.dictionary.com	0.47%
10.	hotword.dictionary.com	0.50%

Evolution of research for this site

The following graph shows the evolution of searches done on Google ™ for the query: Reference.com over time.

Analysis of DMOZ categories

Categorization of DMOZ classifies sites by topic. Search engines such as Google ™ and Bing ™ follow these directions for a better interpretation of web pages.

DMOZ Category(s) to Reference.com :

» No DMOZ category for this site

Backlinks history

HTML analysis of the home page

Doctype	Oui	Html	1
Head	1	Body	1
Title	1	H1	1
H2	10	H3	20
H4	0	H5	0
P	15	Img	16
A (internal)	130	A (external)	76
Iframe	0	Table	0
Form	3	HTML Ratio	18,58 %

HTTP header

The following HTTP header is the last encountered for the domain Reference.com (after any 301, 302...).

10 lines were found:

Server	Apache
Cache-Control	private
Content-Type	text/html;charset=UTF-8
Date	Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:19:05 GMT
Connection	close
Set-Cookie	cu.wz=0; Domain=.reference.com; Expires=Fri, 07-Feb-2014 19:19:05 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie	accepting=1; Domain=.reference.com; Expires=Fri, 07-Feb-2014 19:19:05 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie	bid=URP-KQrc51ZOZAdb; expires=Sat, 07-Feb-2015 19:19:05 GMT; path=/; domain=.reference.com
Set-Cookie	sid=URP-KQrc51ZKr4pv; expires=Thu, 07-Feb-2013 19:49:05 GMT; path=/; domain=.reference.com
Set-Cookie	flyout=URP-KQrc51ZKr4pv; expires=Fri, 07-Feb-2014 19:19:05 GMT; path=/; domain=.reference.com

Internal URL of Reference.com

10 internal URL found in the homepage of the website:

1.	http://www.reference.com
2.	http://www.reference.com/
3.	http://www.reference.com/fun/crossword
4.	http://www.reference.com/fun
5.	http://www.reference.com/crossword/index.html
6.	http://www.reference.com/tools
7.	http://www.reference.com/apps
8.	http://www.reference.com/wordoftheday
9.	http://www.reference.com/wordoftheday
10.	http://www.reference.com/wordoftheday

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Website metas analysis

We found 2 website metas on Reference.com:

description	Reference.com - a free online encyclopedia and information reference. Research articles from Columbia Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Britannica.
keywords	Encyclopedia, reference, facts, knowledge, information, articles, biographies, famous people, history, dictionary, dictionary.com, word of the day

DNS records

There are 11 DNS records for the URL Reference.com:

Host	TTL	Class	Type	Target / IP	Prio.
reference.com	25	IN	A	66.235.120.211
reference.com	300	IN	NS	name2.ask.com
reference.com	300	IN	NS	name1.ask.com
reference.com	300	IN	NS	name5.ask.com
reference.com	300	IN	NS	name6.ask.com
reference.com	300	IN	SOA	DNS maître : name0.ask.com Contact e-mail : dns.ask.com Serial : 2013020501 Refresh : 10800 Expire : 7776000 Minimum TTL : 300
reference.com	500	IN	MX	reference.com.s7a1.psmtp.com	6
reference.com	500	IN	MX	reference.com.s7a2.psmtp.com	6
reference.com	500	IN	MX	reference.com.s7b1.psmtp.com	6
reference.com	500	IN	MX	reference.com.s7b2.psmtp.com	6
reference.com	300	IN	TXT	google-site-verification=bnVDUQezVF3HHsm8M_zZc30ETcHbvQD27yYnT1eaZQk

Distribution of links on the home page

At last count, (07 February 2013 at 20:20:25) we recorded on the homepage of the site 130 links to total 76 were outgoing links:

Text/HTML ratio

The ratio of text/HTML for Reference.com home page is 18,58 % :

Google PageRank™

The Google PageRank ™ is one of the variables in the Google algorithm for ranking web pages. In our last analysis of 07 February 2013, we determined a PR of 8 for Reference.com :