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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 25 years, 11 months and 30 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
- Référence Bibliographique
- Référence Cosmétique
- Référence Immobilière
- Reference de Finition
- Référence Produit
- Reference Synonyme
- WordReference
- WordReference Dictionary
Alexa™ Traffic data
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Value | Dvlpment |
Value | Dvlpment |
Value | Dvlpment |
Value | Dvlpment |
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Alexa Rank™ |
177 | -8 |
194 | +5 |
199 | -32 |
206 | +26 |
Visits |
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→ Rank → Per million* | 165 | -2 |
174 | 0 |
178 | -37 |
187 | +12 |
6 120 | +5% |
5 500 | -0.29% |
5 360 | +20.7% |
5 023 | -5.86% |
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Pageviews |
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→ 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% |
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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 25 years, 11 months and 30 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 : |
25 years, 11 months, 30 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:
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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 :