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Offers space, astronomy and technology content, including information, education, entertainment and business news.

Statistics Summary for space.com

Alexa Traffic Rank Reputation
Global 4,956
Global Rank Alexa Traffic Rank
An estimate of space.com's popularity.

The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to space.com and pageviews on space.com over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1. Learn more.

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United States Flag 1,557
Rank in US Traffic Rank in Country
An estimate of space.com's popularity in a specific country.

The rank by country is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to space.com and pageviews on space.com from users from that country over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1 in that country.

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18,455
Sites Linking In Sites Linking In
A measure of space.com's reputation.

The number of links to space.com from sites visited by users in the Alexa traffic panel. Links that were not seen by users in the Alexa traffic panel are not counted. Multiple links from the same site are only counted once.

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5 Stars
1 Review
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Traffic rank for space.com:

  Traffic Rank Change
Yesterday 6,802 -1,729 Change in Traffic Rank over the trailing 1 day period (A negative change means the site is getting more popular)
7 day 5,499 +770 Change in Traffic Rank over the trailing 7 day period (A positive change means the site is getting less popular)
1 month 4,932 +164 Change in Traffic Rank over the trailing 1 month period (A positive change means the site is getting less popular)
3 month 4,956 +865 Change in Traffic Rank over the trailing 3 month period (A positive change means the site is getting less popular)

Estimated percentage of global pageviews on space.com:

  Pageviews Change
Yesterday 0.00048 +30% Change in Pageviews over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 0.00058 -13% Change in Pageviews over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 0.000639 -0.1% Change in Pageviews over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 0.000632 -11.6% Change in Pageviews over the trailing 3 month period

Estimated percentage of global internet users who visit space.com:

  Reach Change
Yesterday 0.029 +20% Change in Reach over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 0.0339 -11% Change in Reach over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 0.0369 -2% Change in Reach over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 0.0366 -17% Change in Reach over the trailing 3 month period

Estimated percentage of visits to space.com that consist of a single pageview:

  Bounce % Change
Yesterday 60.6 -16% Change in Bounce % over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 68.6 +4% Change in Bounce % over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 67.8 +3% Change in Bounce % over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 66.4 -4% Change in Bounce % over the trailing 3 month period

Estimated daily unique pageviews per user for space.com:

  Pageviews/User Change
Yesterday 1.8 +10% Change in Pageviews/User over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 1.84 -3% Change in Pageviews/User over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 1.84 +2% Change in Pageviews/User over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 1.81 +6% Change in Pageviews/User over the trailing 3 month period

Estimated daily time on site (mm:ss) for space.com:

  Time on Site Change
Yesterday 02:19 +25% Change in Time on Site over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 02:29 -11% Change in Time on Site over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 02:40 -1% Change in Time on Site over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 02:44 +5% Change in Time on Site over the trailing 3 month period
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Average Load Time for Space.com

Very Slow (2.756 Seconds), 83% of sites are faster.

Where Visitors Go on Space.com

Subdomain

Percent of Visitors

space.com

96.51%

i.space.com

2.75%

store.space.com

1.01%


Audience Snapshot

Top Search Queries for Space.com


Based on internet averages, space.com is visited more frequently by males who are over 65 years old, have no children and received some college education.
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Query Percent of Search Traffic
1 space 9.32%
2 lunar eclipse 4.00%
3 lunar eclipse december 2011 1.58%
4 satellite falling to earth 1.16%
5 night sky 1.02%
6 space.com 0.79%
7 moon eclipse 0.66%

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Search Traffic

The percentage of site visits from search engines.

Period Percent of Site Traffic
Last 30 days 6.3%
Last 7 days 5.9%
Yesterday 8%
 
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Search Traffic on the Rise and Decline

The top queries from search engines driving relatively more/less traffic to space.com in the current month than the previous month. Updated monthly.

Search Query 1 Month Increase The change in percentage of search traffic to space.com for each query.
1 lunar eclipse 3.91%
2 lunar eclipse december 2011 1.58%
3 moon eclipse 0.66%
4 comet lovejoy 0.42%
5 x-37b 0.42%
6 private space 0.37%
7 recent news on black hole 0.30%
8 telescope 0.28%
9 winter solstice 2011 0.28%
10 space bound lyrics 0.22%
Search Query 1 Month Decline The change in percentage of search traffic to space.com for each query.
1 space 0.61%
2 satellite falling to earth 0.43%
3 asteroid 2005 yu55 0.40%
4 asteroid flyby 0.36%
5 2005 yu55 0.35%
6 asteroid 2011 md 0.33%
7 lunar eclipse 2011 0.31%
8 yu55 0.28%
9 asteroid vesta 0.23%
10 comet elenin 0.23%



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High Impact Search Queries for space.com

Popular queries that are relevant to this site and are actively targeted by competitors advertising on search engines. Click on queries below to discover who is advertising for these queries.

Query Query
A phrase that drives traffic to “space.com” from search engines. This list also includes sub-phrases that account for a high percentage of this site's search traffic broken out separately. For example, if the site receives traffic for 'buy diamond ring', 'diamond necklace', and 'diamond bracelet', the word 'diamond' might also appear in the list. 		Impact Factor Impact Factor
A high value indicates that “space.com” is getting significant organic search traffic for queries containing these phrases, despite high advertising competition for these phrases.

Impact Factor is a combined measurement of the importance of a particular phrase to the site's search traffic and the level of search engine advertising competition (QCI). The index is on a scale of 0 to 100.

Updated Monthly 		Query Popularity Query Popularity
An estimate of how frequently users search for these keywords, on a scale from 0 to 100. Higher numbers indicate higher frequencies.

Updated Monthly 		QCI The Query Competition Index
QCI indicates the typical number of ads displayed for keyword searches on major search engines. A large number of ads indicates strong advertising competition for a query. The index is on a scale from 0 to 100.

Updated Monthly
lunar eclipse 14.76 44 19
space 8.39 49 21
solar system 3.00 45 45
satellite falling 2.71 32 18
telescope 2.46 40 49
satellite falling to earth 2.15 34 10
moon eclipse 1.99 34 16
night sky 1.85 34 15
www.space.com 1.68 23 35
spase 1.62 32 25
lunar eclipse today 1.55 22 60
2005 yu55 1.51 38 32
elenin 1.49 51 24
x-37b 1.32 38 17
nasa satellite falling 1.15 28 17
space wallpaper 1.05 31 24
cancer treatment 1.01 31 49
phobos grunt 0.98 32 60
comet elenin 0.91 44 13
space stars 0.85 17 50
space pictures 0.81 23 21
data centre 0.78 33 61
planets 0.74 40 20
private space 0.69 29 20
space invaders 0.64 40 21
lunar eclipse 2011 0.64 28 21
gliese 581 0.64 29 100
lunar eclipse december 2011 time 0.61 26 40
asteroid 2005 yu55 0.59 36 13
asteroid vesta 0.58 36 10
 

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Activity by space.com

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Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Opportunities for space.com

Queries that provide opportunities for this site to advertise through Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to get more traffic. They are popular queries that are relevant to the site, and have low competition in search engine marketing. Learn More Many sites are actively advertising in search engines for the most valuable search queries. This high level of competition tends to result in high advertising costs, which makes it difficult to find attractive advertising opportunities. These opportunities may still exist, however, by looking at the "long tail". The long tail contains search queries with lower Query Popularity, but such queries also tend to have lower QCI. By advertising for many of these queries, sites may still be able to manage an effective search engine marketing campaign. Note that not all queries on the long tail may be very relevant to this site, but this list may contain a number of strong advertising candidates.

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470 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10707
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info [at] space.com

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Company Info

Employees:25 - 100
Revenue:$1 - 10M
Ownership:Privately Held

Contacts by Department

  • Sales: 2
  • Marketing: 6
  • Finance & Administration: 14
  • Human Resources: 2
  • Engineering & Research: 2
  • Operations: 7
  • IT & IS: 3
  • Other: 7

Contacts by Level

  • C-Level: 6
  • VP-Level: 15
  • Director-Level: 6
  • Manager-Level: 5

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About space.com (in its own words) Quoted from space.com's About Us and similar pages.

Space.com is the world's premier space web site, offering rich and compelling educational and entertaining content about space as well as its relation to science and technological innovation. Space.com is an award winning, original (95%) content site and the editorial is syndicated daily to Yahoo!, MSNBC, AOL, CNN, MSN, USA Today, and other top portals and news sites. Space.com is read by an active, predominantly male audience of tech-savvy, intellectually curious professionals. ... SPACE.com - About Us


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Review Summary for space.com

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4 stars (0)
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Audience Demographics for Space.com

Relative to the general internet population how popular is space.com with each audience below?

Age

18-24
The audience for space.com among 18-24 year olds is similar to the general internet population.

Confidence: high
25-34
Relative to the general internet population, 25-34 year olds are under-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
35-44
The audience for space.com among 35-44 year olds is similar to the general internet population.

Confidence: high
45-54
Relative to the general internet population, 45-54 year olds are over-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
55-64
Relative to the general internet population, 55-64 year olds are over-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
65+
Relative to the general internet population, people over 65 years old are over-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
Education

No College
The audience for space.com among people who did not go to college is similar to the general internet population.

Confidence: high
Some College
Relative to the general internet population, people some college education are over-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
College
The audience for space.com among people who went to college is similar to the general internet population.

Confidence: high
Graduate School
Relative to the general internet population, people who went to graduate school are under-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
Gender

Male
Relative to the general internet population, Males are over-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
Female
Relative to the general internet population, Females are under-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
Has Children

Yes
Relative to the general internet population, people with children are under-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
No
Relative to the general internet population, people without children are over-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
Browsing Location

home
Relative to the general internet population, people browsing from home are over-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
school
Relative to the general internet population, people browsing from school are under-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high
work
Relative to the general internet population, people browsing from work are under-represented at space.com.

Confidence: high

Advanced Demographics for space.com

Audience breakdown by income, ethnicity, age, education, gender, children and browsing location.

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Visitors by Country for Space.com

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High Impact Search Queries for Space.com

Query Impact
1 lunar eclipse High
2 space High
3 solar system Medium
4 satellite falling Medium
5 telescope Medium
6 satellite falling to earth Medium
7 moon eclipse Low

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Top Search Queries for Space.com

Query Percent of Search Traffic
1 space 9.32%
2 lunar eclipse 4.00%
3 lunar eclipse december 2011 1.58%
4 satellite falling to earth 1.16%
5 night sky 1.02%
6 space.com 0.79%
7 moon eclipse 0.66%

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