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Dotdash's brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. Dotdash is among the fastest-growing publisher...

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Last Checked: 09/16/2019

About.com receives about one hundred thousand unique visitors and one hundred thousand pageviews per day. The estimated value of about.com is two million USD. Each unique visitor makes about 1.24 pageviews on average.

Over the time about.com has been ranked as high as 138 in the world, while most of its traffic comes from United States, where it reached as high as 2,232 position.

About.com is registered under .COM top-level domain. Check other websites in .COM zone.

At the time of the last check (November 28, 2019) about.com has a valid and up-to-date SSL certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa that expires on April 17, 2020. Check other websites using SSL certificates issued by GlobalSign nv-sa.

According to Google Safe Browsing, Google Safe Search, Symantec and Web of Trust about.com is quite a safe domain.

Mobile-Friendly test indicates that about.com is well optimized for mobile and tablet devices, however website page loading time could be improved.

Global Rank
4,893
Average Load Time
1.65sec
Links In Count
153,949
Website Value
$1.9 M

Audience Geography. Where are about.com visitors located?

Country Percent of Pageviews
United States United States US43.4%
India India IN19.9%
South Africa South Africa ZA3.7%
United Kingdom United Kingdom GB2.9%
Canada Canada CA1.5%
Japan Japan JP1.4%
Malaysia Malaysia MY1.4%
Australia Australia AU1.3%
Tanzania Tanzania TZ1.3%
Other23.3%

Where do visitors go on about.com?

Subdomain Pageviews
index.about.com		65.3%
about.com		12.25%
aws.about.com		9.64%
jewelry.about.com		0.4%
foodtravel.about.com		0.3%
gocaribbean.about.com		0.28%
link.about.com		0.27%
ops.about.com		0.27%
clk.about.com		0.22%
other		11.13%
Subdomain Pageviews per User
aws.about.com		25
ops.about.com		5
portlandor.about.com		2
kidsfashion.about.com		2
link.about.com		1.3
jewelry.about.com		1.3
clk.about.com		1.2
gocaribbean.about.com		1.2
video.about.com		1.1
about.com		1.1
other		0.99
Subdomain Reach
index.about.com		82.28%
about.com		13.48%
aws.about.com		0.48%
jewelry.about.com		0.39%
foodtravel.about.com		0.35%
gocaribbean.about.com		0.3%
link.about.com		0.27%
shoppingtips.about.com		0.24%
clk.about.com		0.24%
video.about.com		0.21%
other		10.77%

How popular is about.com?

Days Reach Rank Reach Rank Delta Reach per Million Reach per Million Delta
903615-55224-3.03%
303507-28224-1.75%
73200-3102459%
13570310230-7.293%
Days Pageviews Rank Pageviews Rank Delta Pageviews per Million Pageviews per Million Delta Pageviews per User Pageviews per User Delta
9010148-5597464.2%1.247.8%
309761-122766-0.871%1.260.8%
79035-8268379.7%1.270%
1987748079-4.38%1.33%
Period Global Rank Global Rank Delta
past 3 months4893-220
past month47809
past week4322-414
yesterday4670281

Alexa Rank shows how popular about.com is in comparison with other sites. The most popular site has Alexa Rank equals 1. If about.com has Alexa Rank equals 100,000, then it is in TOP 100,000 popular sites in the world. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to about.com and pageviews on about.com over the past 3 months.

Overview
Last Updated: 01/27/2020
Overall result - "about.com" is SAFE.
We gather website safety and reputation data and compare it with available third-party sources so we calculate own safety and trustworthiness rate based on information that we get.
Norton Connect Safe
Last Updated: 01/12/2019
NCS "about.com" OK.

Norton ConnectSafe evaluates about.com for any unsafe and insecure content. The results are critical for families with young children.

Google Safe Search
Last Updated: 01/27/2020
GSS "about.com" OK.

SafeSearch is used as a parental control tool to filter out any inappropriate for your children search results on your devices: phones, tablets or personal computers.

Google Safe Browsing
Last Updated: 02/18/2019
Malware not found at "about.com".
"about.com" is not a phishing page.
"about.com" does not install unwanted software.
"about.com" does not contain harmfull applications.
Google Safe Browsing notifies when websites are compromised by malicious actors. These protections work across Google products and provide a safer online experience.
Site Advisor
Last Updated: 01/09/2019
SA "about.com" OK.

McAfee assesses about.com for a meaningful set of security threats. Featured dangers from annoying pop-ups to hidden Trojans, that can steal your identity, will be revealed. McAfee does not analyze about.com for mature or inappropriate content, only security checks are evaluated.

Web of Trust
Last Updated: 01/09/2019
WOT "about.com" VERY GOOD.

The WOT calculates reputation of the about.com. This reputation system receives ratings from users and information from third-party sources, assesses the about.com for safety features and confirms, whether about.com is suitable for children.

SSL Information
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Domain dotdash.map.fastly.net
Issuer Organization GlobalSign nv-sa
Issuer GlobalSign CloudSSL CA - SHA256 - G3
Algorithm RSA-SHA256
Valid form 10/14/2019
Expiration 04/17/2020
Signed Certificate is not self signed
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HTML Metatags
Title
Dotdash
The title is too short, it may not provide search engines and users with enough information to understand the relevancy of your page. You should try to keep the length of the title somewhere between at least 10 characters and 70 characters.
Description
Dotdash's brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. Dotdash is among the fastest-growing publishers online.
The description has optimal length. Keep in mind that the "optimal" length will vary depending on the situation, and your primary goal should be to provide value and drive clicks.
Encoding
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You should always specify the encoding used for an HTML page. If you don't, you risk that characters in your content are incorrectly interpreted. This is not just an issue of human readability, increasingly machines need to understand your data too.
Language
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Identifying the language of your content allows you to automatically do a number of things, from changing the look and behavior of a page, to assisting search engines in extracting information. If part of the page uses text in a different language, you can add a language attribute with a different value to the element that surrounds that content.
Language Region
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Images
Attribute ALT
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As a general rule, search engines do not interpret the content of image files. The text provided in the <img alt> attribute enables the site owner to provide relevant information to the search engine and to the end user.
H1-H6 Tags Information

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H1
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H3
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Iframes Information
iFrame
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Since search engines consider the content in iframes to belong to another website, the best you can hope for is no effect on SEO. Iframes tend to neither help nor hurt your search engine ranking. For this reason, it’s best to refrain from using iframes on main pages that you want to rank high in search engine results. Instead, fill high-priority pages with useful, unique content and save iframes for other pages.
Code To Text Ratio
Code To Text Ratio
7.16 %
A good code to text ratio is anywhere from 25 to 70 percent. This percentage refers to the visible text ratio, as opposed to HTML elements, image tags and other non-visible information. This has become especially apparent since search engines, such as Google, released the Panda update which placed importance on content-driven sites.
Favicons

Favicons are the little piece of graphic that represents your brand on browser tabs, bookmark lists, search history, search ads and even search results. These files are placed in a file called favicon.ico and placed in the root directory of a website. There are no direct SEO effects of having favicons. However, there may be indirect benefits such as increased usability of site and bookmarks. It makes your website look more professional and help a users to remember your site while browsing through multiple URLs. If you want to get mentioned benefits you have to specify icons for different web browsers and sometimes even for different mobiles.

Default Favicon
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180x180 Apple Icon
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152x152 Apple Icon
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167x167 Apple Icon
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Robots File
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Domain Name: ABOUT.COM
Registry Domain ID: 4300116_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Updated Date: 2017-11-14T20:06:55Z
Creation Date: 1999-03-12T05:00:00Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2022-03-12T04:00:00Z
Registrar: MarkMonitor Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 292
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.2083895740
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
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Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
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Name Server: DNS1.P05.NSONE.NET
Name Server: DNS2.P05.NSONE.NET
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DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
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Desktop
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64%
Desktop Resource Breakdown
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Number of Hosts29
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JavaScript Resources26
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Mobile
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97%
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58%
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