WebSite Grade For www.techcrunch.com : 98/100 (September 30, 2007)

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Score Summary

Sectionwww.techcrunch.com
Website Grade98
Google Page Rank8
Alexa RankN/A
Technorati Rank4
Google Inbound Links39,200
Yahoo Inbound Links2,444,923
Delicious Saved Count13,137
Google Indexed Pages15,900

Google PageRank : 8

"Google PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves important weigh more heavily and help to make other pages important."
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Title : Techcrunch
Description : Startup and Tech News
Meta Keywords : -- Missing --
No search words were entered for this report generation.

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Meta-Keywords Not Found

There were no keywords detected in the meta-data of the website.

Though Google does not seem to place high relevance on meta keywords to determine the content of a website, other engines like Yahoo! may still look at these.

Since it doesn't hurt you to have meta-keywords, we'd suggest going ahead and adding them to the page.
Font Tags Found in HTML

The website seems to be using font tags in the HTML. Although this is not a critical issue, most web experts would advise using cleaner XHTML/CSS for websites instead of using non-semantic markup tags like the font tag.

This website contained about 1 font tags.
Website seems to be using Google Analytics

Domain Info

Registrar : SCHLUND+PARTNER AG
Registered On : June 10, 2005 @ 12:00 AM
Domain Age (days) : 842
Expires On : June 10, 2008 @ 12:00 AM
Days To Expiration : 253
Domain Expires Within A Year

The domain for this website is set to expire in less than a year (253 days).

We would suggest renewing this domain with your registrar. Google and other search engines may penalize websites with domains that are set to expire soon. The reason for this is that many spam sites are often registered for short periods of time. Most registrars support paying upfront for several years and the cost is usually only about $10-$20 per year, so it is generally worth it.

Heading Summary

Similar to how newspapers and magazines use headings and sub-headings to help readers, websites can use special tags in their HTML. These tags not only help human readers read the content, they also help search engine spiders better understand the content on a page and what is most important. It is generally a good idea to use heading tags to help signal to the search engines, what the web page is about.
Heading Summary

Heading TypeText
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First-Level (H1)YouTube Gets Adsensed
First-Level (H1)Xoom Raises $20 Million Series E
First-Level (H1)Note to Apple: Stop thinking Like a Phone Company
Second-Level (H2)September 30
Second-Level (H2)September 29
Second-Level (H2)September 28
Third-Level (H3)Erick Schonfeld
Third-Level (H3)Duncan Riley
Third-Level (H3)Michael Arrington
Third-Level (H3)Michael Arrington
Third-Level (H3)Michael Arrington
Third-Level (H3)Michael Arrington
Third-Level (H3)Duncan Riley
Third-Level (H3)Duncan Riley
Third-Level (H3)Duncan Riley
Third-Level (H3)Erick Schonfeld
Third-Level (H3)TechCrunch Network
Third-Level (H3)Search posts
More than one H1 tag found

More than one primary heading tags (H1 tags) have been found on the page. Though this is not a critical issue, it is unusual for a web page to contain more than one heading tag. We suggest having a single primary heading per page

Image Summary

Images are a great way to enhance a website from a user's perspective. However, it is important to note that search engine crawlers cannot really "see" images. So, if you have lots of images that contain textual content within the image itself, this content will not be seen by the crawlers.

HTML helps address this issue by providing a way to specify the textual content for an image using the "alt" attribute. The alt attribute allows web pages to assign specific text as the "alternative" content for images for those that cannot view the images themselves. This can be search engine crawlers or text-only web browsers.
Image List

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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/Techcrunch?bg=FF6600&fg=000000&anim=0Subscriber count
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Google Indexed Pages : 15,900

Measures the approximate number of pages on http://www.techcrunch.com/ that have been stored in the Google index. The Google web crawler will visit the website periodically and look for new content and store it in its index. Generally, the more pages a website has within the Google cache, the better.


There are 0 pages from http://www.techcrunch.com/ in the supplemental results area of Google.
These pages will generally not rank on Google.com. A high number of supplemental pages may indicate a problem with the site.

Google Crawl Date : September 29, 2007 @ 10:31 AM

Google will periodically crawl websites looking for new and updated content. In general, it is desired to have the frequency with which Google crawls a site to be higher, rather than lower. Sites that get crawled more often have more frequent updates and more authority.

Conversion Methods

The WebSite grader attempts to measure both the ability for a website to attract traffic and the ability to convert that traffic into qualified leads and prospects. The software searches for common conversion mechanisms such as "calls to action". Examples include RSS feeds, email subscription forms and other ways that site visitors can express interest in the offering.

Inbound Links

One of the most important measures for a website is how many other sites are linking to it. The more links the better.
Links Summary

Google : 39,200
Yahoo : 2,444,923

Technorati Ranking : 4

Technorati is a popular website ranking service. It measures the popularity of a given website as compared to all other sites that have been submitted to its system.

This website currently has a Technorati ranking of 4.

del.icio.us bookmarks : 13,137

del.icio.us is a web-based bookmarking site. Delicious users save their bookmarks on the website so they can access them from any browser. A website that has many users bookmarking it is generally popular and will get more traffic. http://www.techcrunch.com/ has about 13,137 bookmarks stored.

Alexa Traffic Ranking : N/A

Alexa is an online service that measures the approximate traffic for millions of sites on the Internet.

Currently, the site http://www.techcrunch.com/ is not being tracked by Alexa. This is usually the case if the site is relatively new or if the traffic level is not high enough to place it in the top million or so sites.

Readability Level : 8th Grade

This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it.

digg.com Submission Summary

The website www.techcrunch.com has had 100 articles submitted to digg.com. These articles received a total of 4494 diggs (votes) and 5 of these articles made it to the front page of digg.com.

Historical Data Available

The website www.techcrunch.com has been previously processed by Website Grader. There are approximately 75 data points in our database, dating back to 11/11/2006 .
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