About.com
Visit about.comDotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher
| Global rank | 312 |
|---|---|
| Daily visitors | 29.3K |
| Daily pageviews | 46.9K |
| Pageviews per user | 1.6 |
| Rating | |
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| Status | Online |
| Latest check | |
| Category | Research/Reference |
Countable Data Brief
About.com is tracked by us since April, 2011. Over the time it has been ranked as high as 69 in the world, while most of its traffic comes from USA, where it reached as high as 91 position. It was owned by several entities, from about inc. Hosting Operations to Dotdash Media Inc., it was hosted by ABOUT.COM, Fastly Inc. and others. While CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS INC. was its first registrar, now it is moved to MarkMonitor Inc..
About has a high Google pagerank and bad results in terms of Yandex topical citation index. We found that About.com is heavily ‘socialized’ in respect to Google+ shares (726K), Facebook shares (488K) and Twitter mentions (1.21K). According to MyWot and Google safe browsing analytics, About.com is a fully trustworthy domain with mostly positive visitor reviews.
Compare With Competitors
View the key web metrics of About.com, such as ranks, visitors and social engagement, in comparison with the stats of thematically similar sites.
Worldwide Audience
Compare it to ...About.com gets 69.7% of its traffic from USA where it is ranked #8614.
Top Countries
| USA | 69.7% | |
| India | 11.1% | |
| Turkey | 1.4% |
Top Ranks
| USA | 8 614 | |
| Turkey | 44 399 | |
| India | 45 805 |
Traffic Analysis
Compare it to ...About.com has 29.3K visitors and 46.9K pageviews daily.
Pageviews
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Subdomains Traffic Shares
Aws.about.com is the most popular subdomain of About.com with 41.67% of its total traffic.
Top Subdomains
| aws.about.com | 41.67% | |
| index.about.com | 0.65% |
This Domain
52%
SEO Stats
Compare it to ...About.com has Google PR 7 and its top keyword is "about".
Homepage Top Backlinks PR
Top Keywords % of search traffic
| about |
Domain Registration Data
Compare it to ...About.com domain is owned by Dotdash Media Inc. and its registration expires in 10 months.
General Get more About.com whois history
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Dotdash Media Inc. Owner since November 09, 2023 |
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10 months left Expires on March 12, 2025 |
25 years old Created on March 12, 1999 |
2 months ago Changed at February 09, 2024 |
Registrar and Status
| Registar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Sponsor | CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC. |
| Status |
clientDeleteProhibited clientTransferProhibited clientUpdateProhibited |
In Other TLDs
- 1. about.me
- 2. about.google
- 3. about.youtube
- 4. about.us
- 5. about.ch
Server Information
Compare it to ...About.com is hosted by Fastly, Inc.
IP Whois Get more About.com server history
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Fastly, Inc.
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151.101.130.137
IP address
Server Technologies
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Apache HTTP Server
Backend server
DNS Records
Nameservers
- dns1.p05.nsone.net
- dns2.p05.nsone.net
- dns3.p05.nsone.net
- dns4.p05.nsone.net
- ns01.icsn.com
| host | value | ttl |
|---|---|---|
| about.com | 151.101.2.137 |
300 |
| about.com | 151.101.66.137 |
300 |
| about.com | 151.101.130.137 |
300 |
| about.com | 151.101.194.137 |
300 |
| host | value | ttl |
|---|---|---|
| about.com | k.sni.global.fastly.net |
30 |
| host | value | ttl |
|---|---|---|
| about.com | dns2.p05.nsone.net |
600 |
| about.com | dns3.p05.nsone.net |
600 |
| about.com | dns4.p05.nsone.net |
600 |
| about.com | ns01.icsn.com |
600 |
| about.com | ns02.icsn.com |
600 |
| about.com | ns03.icsn.com |
600 |
| about.com | ns04.icsn.com |
600 |
| about.com | dns1.p05.nsone.net |
600 |
| host | value | ttl |
|---|---|---|
| about.com | Txt: atlassian-domain-verification=uUTQHYge655RxaiCqp-IAyc/Q7GgtoJziDouyp0rB7n8OUdp4q8WfSgllR1IaJVR |
86400 |
| about.com | Txt: _globalsign-domain-verification=oJIgih5w0Ef57wJVNPzdo5a4cUlsZiQUhumcDQKSj2 |
86400 |
| about.com | Txt: google-site-verification=naBvDaAtPQECSKkKcHQUjsdsJagdKYI4dG5-Vj-BCRw |
86400 |
| about.com | Txt: facebook-domain-verification=rf8ocdhxrznl039sodxk5mul9of8l7 |
86400 |
| about.com | Txt: adobe-idp-site-verification=4d443bb146b2a60fc0c0216c899a6ef9baa971cc3c36ac4b3020b4719b5c2e82 |
86400 |
| about.com | Txt: globalsign-domain-verification=w4_cM6JGgWq8DXcWhKiS6LtG0lzij1oIZfjNoaPv_D |
86400 |
| about.com | Txt: v=spf1 ip4:64.125.213.247 ip4:216.223.13.247 ip4:34.194.76.185 ip4:35.164.185.216 ip4:34.194.69.219 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:amazonses.com ~all |
86400 |
Safety
Compare it to ...Safety status of About.com is described as follows: MyWOT reports its overall reputation as excellent, Google Safe Browsing reports its status as safe, while users provide mostly positive reviews (89%).
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MyWOT
| Overall reputation | Excellent |
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| Trustworthiness | Excellent |
| Privacy | Excellent |
| Child safety | Excellent |
Google Safe Browsing
| Website status | Safe |
|---|---|
| Status | ok |
User reviews
| Reputation | Positive | |
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89% positive11% negative |
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Social Engagement
Compare it to ...About.com has 6.63% of its total traffic coming from social networks (in last 3 months) and the most active engagement is detected in Google+ (726K pluses)
Social Metrics Get more About.com social history
6.63%
of total traffic in last 3 months is social0
Facebook likes488K
Facebook shares1.21K
Twitter mentions726K
Google pluses5.27K
LinkedIn mentions0
Pinterest pins13.8K
StumbleUpon views