First Mozscape index of the year is live
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I'm happy to announce, the first index of the year is out. We did have a smaller count of subdomains, but correlations are generally up and coverage of what's in Google looks better, too. We're giving that one a high five!
We've (hopefully) removed a lot of foreign and spam subdomains, which you might see reflected in your spam links section. (another woot!)
Here are some details about this index release:
- 145,549,223,632 (145 billion) URLs
- 1,356,731,650 (1 billion) subdomains
- 200,255,095 (200 million) root domains
- 1,165,625,349,576 (1.1 Trillion) links
- Followed vs nofollowed links
- 3.17% of all links found were nofollowed
- 63.49% of nofollowed links are internal
- 36.51% are external
- Rel canonical: 26.50% of all pages employ the rel=canonical tag
- The average page has 89 links on it
- 72 internal links on average
- 17 external links on average
Thanks!
PS - For any questions about DA/PA fluctuations (or non-fluctuations) check out this Q&A thread from Rand: https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores.
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Real case... almost 10 years ago SEO manager in some company was flying to their HQ just to explain why their PR was dropped from 6 to 5. C-level execs wasn't happy about that.
Now fun part - impressions, CTR and visits was increased during that update.
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Great to post this at the top of the Q&A - noticed the first questions appearing today - probably many more to follow (hopefully fellow Moz'ers will read this post before posting the question).
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