The April Index Update is Here!

[IanWatson]

Don’t adjust your monitors, or think this is an elaborate April Fool’s joke, we are actually releasing our April Index Update EARLY! We had planned to release our April Index Update on the 6th, but processing went incredibly smoothly and left us the ability to get it up today.

Let’s dig into the details of the April Index Release:

• 138,919,156,028 (139 billion) URLs.

• 746,834,537 (747 million) subdomains.

• 190,170,132 (190 million) root domains.

• 1,116,945,451,603 (1.1 Trillion) links.

• Followed vs nofollowed links

• 3.02% of all links found were nofollowed

• 61.79% of nofollowed links are internal

• 38.21% are external

• Rel canonical: 28.14% of all pages employ the rel=canonical tag

• The average page has 90 links on it

• 73 internal links on average.

• 17 external links on average.

Don’t let me hold you up, go dive into the data!

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

[ClassicPartyRentals]

Our DA jumped 5 points from 57 to 62.  Happiness.

[donsilvernail]

I Received a nice lift in DA as well. So did many of my clients. Only 2 or 3 clients went down. These were newer websites with very little content.

[Joe.Robison]

Yup - for this first time, I think ever, one of my clients DA jumped up about 10 points to a number that's more in line of where I thought it should be, based on industry standards. At the same time, the two closest competitors dropped by 5-10 points each, which was very relieving. It was relieving because I had been monitoring their own content and links for the past few years, and much of their links have been spam or purchased links. I had been waiting for their drop for awhile, and now there's vindication!

So for the first time in awhile, I'm very impressed with this update, and from my narrow perspective, the new index seems to be right on the money.

[jennita]

Glad to hear it on all accounts.