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Content Marketing comparison of websites for thesun.ie
theguardian.com
83%
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espn.com
52%
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mirror.co.uk
32%
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standard.co.uk
28%
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thesun.ie
24%
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).
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.
| Metric | thesun.ie | theguardian.com | mirror.co.uk | standard.co.uk | espn.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 | thesun.ie | theguardian.com | mirror.co.uk | standard.co.uk | espn.com |
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| Number of Referring Backlinks (Content Popularity) (day) | 2,093,637 | 247,407,602 | 22,316,442 | 9,600,128 | 145,755,804 |
| Number of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 8,711 | 726,461 | 150,355 | 92,895 | 104,424 |
| Number of URLs found in the index (day) | 815,793 | 7,349,878 | 4,173,060 | 1,271,511 | 5,092,081 |
| Number of IPs that refer to domain (day) | 6,701 | 323,779 | 95,127 | 57,936 | 64,718 |
| Number of subnets that refer to domain (day) | 4,770 | 118,839 | 47,460 | 31,804 | 35,388 |
| Number of Referring .EDU und .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 32 | 4,007 | 690 | 505 | 954 |
| Number of Backlinks from .EDU and .EDU - related Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 135 | 566,317 | 17,031 | 9,479 | 22,362 |
| Number of governmental and .gov - related domains that refer to domain (day) | 3 | 900 | 109 | 69 | 67 |
| Number of government and .gov - related external backlinks that link to domain (day) | 25 | 16,466 | 910 | 477 | 356 |
| The exact number of educational domains that refer to domain (day) | 14 | 1,583 | 278 | 154 | 765 |
| Number of Backlinks from .EDU Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 15 | 183,341 | 2,083 | 1,002 | 19,207 |
| The exact number of government domains that refer to domain (day) | 1 | 201 | 23 | 12 | 43 |
| The exact number of government links that refer to domain (day) | 20 | 4,041 | 47 | 34 | 257 |
| Average number of outgoing links to unique domains for that domain (day) | 11 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| The number of outgoing links for this domain (day) | 19 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| Average number of internal links for domain (day) | 26 | 6 | 68 | 56 | 69 |
| Link Strength of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 60 | 90 | 76 | 67 | 90 |
| Authority of Referring Domains (Content Popularity) (day) | 43 | 83 | 76 | 61 | 77 |
| TrustMetric value for domain (day) - Majestic metric | 43 | 83 | 76 | 61 | 77 |
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 The Irish Sun - latest news, sport, celebrities and videos |
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| Desktop speed score | 69 |
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| Mobile speed score | 41 |
| Mobile usability score | 96 |
| Number of all page resources | 221 |
| Number of static page resources | 59 |
| Number of JS page resources | 59 |
| Number of styles (CSS) page resources | 7 |
| Total request weight | 54 kb |
| HTML response weight | 622 kb |
| CSS response weight | 1306 kb |
| Images response weight | 697 kb |
| JS response weight | 3352 kb |
Usability - optimization suggestions
Selected advices to optimize loading times.
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Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs http://thesun.ie/
https://thesun.ie/
https://www.thesun.ie/
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Cache (desktop) by setting expiry date for https://cookies.onetrust.mgr.consensu.org/onetrust-logo.svg
https://us.tags.newscgp.com/prod/ncg/ncg.js
https://c.go-mpulse.net/api/config.json?key=CATGB-Q2D22-A9FPJ-EPJDL-A5WU6&d=www.thesun.ie&t=5179699&v=1.571.0&if=&sl=1&si=5cuy0zm0ydhg2e29-pp5ofl&plugins=AK,ConfigOverride,Continuity,PageParams,IFrameDelay,AutoXHR,SPA,Angular,Backbone,Ember,History,RT,CrossDomain,BW,PaintTiming,NavigationTiming,ResourceTiming,Memory,CACHE_RELOAD,Errors,TPAnalytics,UserTiming,LOGN&acao=
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Cache (mobile) by setting expiry date for https://cookies.onetrust.mgr.consensu.org/onetrust-logo.svg
https://us.tags.newscgp.com/prod/ncg/ncg.js
https://c.go-mpulse.net/api/config.json?key=CATGB-Q2D22-A9FPJ-EPJDL-A5WU6&d=www.thesun.ie&t=5179699&v=1.571.0&if=&sl=1&si=5cuy0zm0ydhg2e29-pp5ofx&plugins=AK,ConfigOverride,Continuity,PageParams,IFrameDelay,AutoXHR,SPA,Angular,Backbone,Ember,History,RT,CrossDomain,BW,PaintTiming,NavigationTiming,ResourceTiming,Memory,CACHE_RELOAD,Errors,TPAnalytics,UserTiming,LOGN&acao=
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Speed up server response time
Response time in https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/Server
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Minify HTML files (desktop) https://cookies.onetrust.mgr.consensu.org/?name=euconsent&value=&expire=0&isFirstRequest=true - 113B (15%)
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Minify HTML files (mobile) https://cookies.onetrust.mgr.consensu.org/?name=euconsent&value=&expire=0&isFirstRequest=true - 113B (15%)
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Minify JavaScript files (desktop) https://www.thesun.ie/_static/??-eJyNy0EOhSAMRdENqfXHKE7MXwvRBkFbGgth+zJ0pqM3uOdBkXaNnJATUG7lzM6zQsAkdj2A4pZPVCjirrjHLmgDj0fakWqto5khKGjxgldHnl8p2Q/Iqa3mT8tvHIfeTGY24QbXzUHJ - 4.3KiB (14%)
https://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js - 669B (39%)
https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/themes/thesun/js/generic.js?ver=3.7.1 - 515B (27%)
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Minify JavaScript files (mobile) https://www.thesun.ie/_static/??-eJyNy0EOhSAMRdENqfXHKHFg/lqINgja0lgI25ehMx29wT0PirRr5IScgHIrZ3aeFQImsesBFLd8okIRd8U9dkEbeDzSjlRrHc0MQUGLF7w68vxKyX5ATm01f1p+4zj0ZjJmDjfXzkHK - 4.3KiB (14%)
https://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js - 669B (39%)
https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/themes/thesun/js/generic.js?ver=3.7.1 - 515B (27%)
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| The page content is too wide for the viewport, forcing the user to scroll horizontally. (mobile) |
| Some of the links/buttons on your webpage may be too small for a user to easily tap on a touchscreen. (mobile) |
Summary of some information about this domain and its competition
Main
- Die Domain achieved a Score of 897.
- The competing domain espn.com has achieved a score of 1936
Content
- The word or combination of words with the worst "Count on Page" result on the competitors website is week with (based first 10 subpages of the domain under investigation).
- The word or combination of words with the best median result regarding the frequency on the competitors website is general election (based on first 10 subpages of examined domain).
- Competitor standard.co.uk has reached a value of 92895 for the metric: "Number of referring domains (daily value)".
- The competitor theguardian.com has reached a value of 1 for the metric: "Average number of outgoing links to different domains".
- The value achieved for the metric: "Number of referring .GOV domains (daily value)" is 1 .
Social media
- The domain standard.co.uk was defined as category: News & Media Website on Facebook.
- 160% of this group of domains has a Facebook account.
- 0% of this group of domains has a Youtube account.
- The number of Instagram Following for the competitor espn.com instagram account is 434 (since the last update).
- The number of Twitter fans belonging to the competitor theguardian.com tweet account is 8322342 (since the last update).
Seo
- The URL http://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/gs/golden-state-warriors is the most frequent url in our search engine rankings, which belongs to the competitor espn.com
- The data of the search engine results was updated on the 2020-02-14 for the domain theguardian.com.
- The URL https://www.thesun.ie/ is the most common search engine result in our search engine rankings
- The average position in the search engine rankings for the main domain is 64.
- The domain espn.com has the best search engine rankings average position.
Server
- The desktop version of the website mirror.co.uk had 61 points scored at Google Insights.
- Static objects of the main domain are numerous and https://cookies.onetrust.mgr.consensu.org/onetrust-logo.svg, https://us.tags.newscgp.com/prod/ncg/ncg.js, https://c.go-mpulse.net/api/config.json?key=CATGB-Q2D22-A9FPJ-EPJDL-A5WU6&d=www.thesun.ie&t=5179699&v=1.571.0&if=&sl=1&si=5cuy0zm0ydhg2e29-pp5ofl&plugins=AK,ConfigOverride,Continuity,PageParams,IFrameDelay,AutoXHR,SPA,Angular,Backbone,Ember,History,RT,CrossDomain,BW,PaintTiming,NavigationTiming,ResourceTiming,Memory,CACHE_RELOAD,Errors,TPAnalytics,UserTiming,LOGN&acao=, https://tags.tiqcdn.com/utag/newsinternational/thesun.irish.web.2/prod/utag.js could have information about their expiry date and be loaded from the cache of the browser.
- When the homepage of the main domain is loaded once, 221 objects are downloaded (files, JS scripts, etc.).
- The entire HTML files of the main domain homepage weighs 622 kb.
- Graphic files (on the homepage of the main domain) have a size of 697 kb.