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By: Rand Fishkin
September 12, 2012
September Mozscape Update is Live: Fresh, New Link Data for All!
Moz News
The author’s views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
The Big Data Team at Moz has had one of the hardest periods to date producing an index (and we’ve had some nightmarish doozies in the past). In June, after our funding from Foundry & Ignition, we started running 4 simultaneous indices on Amazon while also starting to set up our new hybrid (our processing and Amazon storage) cloud data center in Virginia. This tactic mostly worked until August, when we had 4 indices collapse on us due to a high rate of Amazon EC2 disk failures. Naturally, this makes us want to move off the cloud more quickly, and it also meant our bill was higher than ever – nearly $700,000.
But, despite those 4 lost indices, today we have one that survived. It’s now available through Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, the PRO web app campaigns, and the API.
Here are the metrics for this latest index:
64,023,562,478 (64 billion) URLs
1,282,691,523 (1.2 billion) Subdomains
148,634,588 (148 million) Root Domains
651,894,828,133 (651 billion) Links
Followed vs. Nofollowed 2.28% of all links found were nofollowed
55.53% of nofollowed links are internal
44.47% are external
Rel Canonical – 13.74% of all pages now employ a rel=canonical tag
The average page has 71 links on it
60.74 internal links on average
10.87 external links on average
And the following correlations with Google’s US search results:
Page Authority – 0.34
Domain Authority – 0.24
MozRank – 0.20
Linking Root Domains – 0.24
Total Links – 0.20
External Links – 0.24
The Big Data Team knows you want fresher and larger indices and they have been dedicating all their time trying to deliver. To that end, we have moved to Amazon’s new crazy-fast cluster compute machines that have 6 times the computing power we have now, allowing us to reduce the hardware needed to process! It should mean fewer failures due to fewer boxes required to run the processing cluster. We are also continuing down the path of standing up our own hardware in our cloud data center in Virginia. Huge thanks to the team for aggressively working on the processing and on our own solution.
As always, we appreciate and look forward to your feedback!
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