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Content Marketing comparison of websites for sparknotes.com
theguardian.com
dictionary.com
thefreedictionary.com
vocabulary.com
sparknotes.com
Our algorithms collect information, determine the relevant competitors and compare how these pages perform in direct comparison in fields: search engine rankings and traffic, social media activity and reach, popularity on other websites (backlinks) and the technical aspects of the website itself (user experience and many more). The selection of competitors can be improved by any visitor at any time by clicking on them and selecting an additional one or replacing existing ones. The displayed score is made up of metrics, which we present below. It shows percentage success measurement (snapshot) compared to the competition. The higher the percentage, the better performance. This area belongs to the research work of the Internet Institute Zurich and does not guarantee the accuracy of the data. For precise evaluations, we recommend opening an account.
SEO: Number of expected visitors from the search engine
Expected volume of visitors based on the visibility in the search engine (presence on the first search results page for keywords that have significant monthly demand. Calculated thanks to public statistics on click rate). The value should not be compared with Google analytics numbers. The key figures are intended to be representative for the search engine visibility of a domain.
Social media statistics
Selected social media statistics on reach (number of followers / fans), activity (number of posts) and engagement (e.g. number of likes achieved for all posts).
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| Metric | sparknotes.com | theguardian.com | dictionary.com | thefreedictionary.com | vocabulary.com | |
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Facebook
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Facebook fans | x | x | x | x | x |
Twitter
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Tweets | x | x | x | x | x |
| Twitter followers | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Twitter following (account is following) | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Twitter likes | x | x | x | x | x | |
Instagram
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Instagram posts | x | x | x | x | x |
| Instagram followers | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Instagram following (account is following) | x | x | x | x | x | |
Youtube
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Youtube views | x | x | x | x | x |
| Youtube subscribers | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Youtube comments | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Youtube videos | x | x | x | x | x |
Number of referring external websites - an important source of visitors
Number of backlinks and other important metrics
| Metric | sparknotes.com | theguardian.com | dictionary.com | thefreedictionary.com | vocabulary.com |
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| Number of Referring Backlinks (Content Popularity) (day) | 672,759 | 247,407,602 | 22,985,748 | 44,958,369 | 1,615,636 |
| Number of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 24,695 | 726,461 | 109,804 | 94,490 | 24,009 |
| Number of URLs found in the index (day) | 372,216 | 7,349,878 | 1,619,956 | 17,762,937 | 503,182 |
| Number of IPs that refer to domain (day) | 18,846 | 323,779 | 71,011 | 63,430 | 19,365 |
| Number of subnets that refer to domain (day) | 13,017 | 118,839 | 38,276 | 35,518 | 13,317 |
| Number of Referring .EDU und .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 671 | 4,007 | 1,816 | 1,333 | 548 |
| Number of Backlinks from .EDU and .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 6,949 | 566,317 | 428,699 | 89,069 | 9,260 |
| Number of governmental and .gov - related domains that refer to domain (day) | 46 | 900 | 158 | 136 | 32 |
| Number of government and .gov - related external backlinks that link to domain (day) | 135 | 16,466 | 571 | 5,509 | 426 |
| The exact number of educational domains that refer to domain (day) | 455 | 1,583 | 978 | 597 | 217 |
| Number of Backlinks from .EDU Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 4,635 | 183,341 | 24,673 | 17,084 | 1,166 |
| The exact number of government domains that refer to domain (day) | 27 | 201 | 89 | 50 | 10 |
| The exact number of government links that refer to domain (day) | 56 | 4,041 | 370 | 184 | 76 |
| Average number of outgoing links to unique domains for that domain (day) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| The number of outgoing links for this domain (day) | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Average number of internal links for domain (day) | 41 | 6 | 36 | 61 | 48 |
| Link Strength of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 57 | 90 | 78 | 62 | 59 |
| Authority of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 65 | 83 | 67 | 62 | 63 |
| TrustMetric value for domain (day) - Majestic metric | 65 | 83 | 67 | 62 | 63 |
Keywords research
Frequent words and word combinations of the group of chosen websites and statistics on the occurrence and monthly demand in Google. Find keywords that are often used by competitors and have demand in the search engine.
Usability scores
User Experience Performance of the main domain on various devices (100 - is the best performance) und information about website loading times.
| Page title SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides |
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| Desktop speed score | 50 |
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| Mobile speed score | 37 |
| Mobile usability score | 99 |
| Number of all page resources | 173 |
| Number of static page resources | 64 |
| Number of JS page resources | 47 |
| Number of styles (CSS) page resources | 3 |
| Total request weight | 39 kb |
| HTML response weight | 72 kb |
| CSS response weight | 95 kb |
| Images response weight | 447 kb |
| JS response weight | 1482 kb |
Usability - optimization suggestions
Selected advices to optimize loading times.
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Minify HTML files (desktop) http://www.sparknotes.com/ - 1.7KiB (19%)
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Minify HTML files (mobile) http://www.sparknotes.com/ - 1.7KiB (19%)
http://m.sparknotes.com/ - 1KiB (13%)
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Minify JavaScript files (desktop) http://a.tribalfusion.com/real/tags/SparkNotes2/Billboard/tags.js - 3.9KiB (29%)
http://a.tribalfusion.com/real/tags/SparkNotes2/ROW/tags.js - 3.9KiB (29%)
http://img.sparknotes.com/js/new_user.js?rev=rev - 2.3KiB (43%)
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Minify JavaScript files (mobile) http://tags.expo9.exponential.com/tags/SparkNotesMobile/Snackbar/tags.js - 3.9KiB (29%)
http://img.sparknotes.com/js/new_user.js?rev=rev - 2.3KiB (43%)
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Optimize image files (desktop) http://img.sparknotes.com/content/sparklife/sparktalk/harrypottercoversredesigna1.jpg - 67.4KiB (75%)
http://img.sparknotes.com/content/sparklife/sparktalk/jan26classiclitsummedupMAIN_SmallWide.jpg - 31.3KiB (80%)
http://img.sparknotes.com/content/sparklife/sparktalk/0to100realquickMAIN_SmallWide.jpg - 24.2KiB (78%)
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Summary of some information about this domain and its competition
Main
- Die Domain achieved a Score of 978.
- The competing domain vocabulary.com has achieved a score of 1069
Content
- The word or combination of words with the best median result regarding the frequency on the competitors website is homepage (based on first 10 subpages of examined domain).
- The ratio of the number of words and word combinations on the main domains to the benchmark of the competition sites is "201:201".
- Competitor vocabulary.com has achieved a value of 48 for the metric:"Average number of internal links".
- The achieved value for the metric: "Average number of internal links" is 41 .
- The value achieved for the metric: "Link power of the referring domains" is 57 .
Social media
- 80% of this group of domains has a Twitter account.
- 0% of this group of domains has a Youtube account.
- The number of Twitter tweets belonging to the competitor vocabulary.com tweet account is 15387 (since the last update).
- The number of Twitter Following for the competitor dictionary.com tweet account is 187 (since the last update).
- The number of Instagram Following for the competitor dictionary.com instagram account is 37 (since the last update).
Seo
- The URL https://www.dictionary.com/ is the most frequent url in our search engine rankings, which belongs to the competitor dictionary.com
- The competitor vocabulary.com should get at least 1027299 visitors from the search engine per month.
- This free report has been updated for the main domain on 2020-02-13.
- The best position ever found for the main domain was 18 and it was found the keyword :keyword.
- The average number of visitors expected from the search engine for the competitors websites is 24962156.
Server
- Static objects of the competitor vocabulary.com are numerous and https://cdn.vocab.com/questions/800/5384a4657590f8d2f3b28b4d.jpg, https://cdn.vocab.com/questions/800/5384a5147590f8d2f3b28c6a.jpg, https://cdn.vocab.com/questions/800/5384a5517590f8d2f3b28cd1.jpg, https://cdn.vocab.com/questions/800/5384a5a77590f8d2f3b28d5d.jpg could have information about their expiry date and be loaded from the cache of the browser.
- It would be an advantage to compress the image at the competitor dictionary.com website: http://static.sfdict.com/sitecore/-/media/Dictionary_com/Promo-Articles/03-2017/insults_HP.ashx in order to 6.1KiB kb.
- Some links and buttons are too small and can cause problems for website visitors of the competitor thefreedictionary.com website.
- The mobile version of the competitor theguardian.com achieved 62 points for the server response and website loading times in the Google Insights test.
- When the homepage of the main domain is loaded once, 173 objects are downloaded (files, JS scripts, etc.).