The impact of domain name length on website popularity
Several questions arise when asked the question “Does domain name length have any impact on the popularity of a website?” This is a great speculative question that has many factors and variables that affect the traffic and popularity of a website. It could be branding, the ease of remembering a site, or a myriad of other reasons. However, there have to be some interesting trends that appear when looking at some of the most popular websites, right?
After posing this question, I decided to dig a little deeper and aggregated the domain name lengths from 97 of the most popular websites (according to Alexa’s list). I took the domain name of each site and broke down the domain name length so I could answer the question whether domain name length has an impact on a website’s popularity. Here are the results:
Do what you enjoy
One of life’s greatest lessons it to enjoy what you do. You only live once, and to ensure happiness, you need to get as much pleasure and satisfaction out of what you do every day. While this is true in all facets of your life, it is most prevalent in what you choose to do for your job or career.
If brands merged: Sonic & Subway
Question
What would be the result if fast-food companies Sonic & Subway merged?
How investing $1 per day can change your life
There are a multitude of reasons and excuses that many of us give for not investing. Whether we are strapped for cash, have bills to pay, whatever the reason, it is amazing how simply investing one dollar per day can change your life.
For those that are younger we have an investors greatest asset on our side - time. We use the power of compounding returns to grow the money we invest today over 10, 25 or even 50 years. However, you don’t have to be young to still realize the amazing effect that compounding has on your money.
Then & Now: Search engine home page designs
The web has change so much over the past 10 years or so. Sites that were in their heyday in the early 90’s are now defunct, some sites that dominate global markets weren’t even around ten years ago. However, the leaders in search have stayed pretty much the same. Yahoo, Google, MSN, ASK & AOL have been around a while (in web years).
Design elements that were used in the early 90’s are now deprecated, being replaced with modern design practices and rich multimedia. We have all come a long way.
Here’s a look back in time at the top search engine home page designs compared to today: