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archive.org had about 160.9M visits in September 2026, down 0.92% from August; the top source is search.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Traffic

160.9M

-0.92%MoMEstimated monthly visits
789175.39M116.93M58.46M0
Global rank

137

Country rank · United States

134

Category rank · Science and Education

1

Average visit duration

04:31

Pages per visit

8.41

Bounce rate

44.35%

Domain age

31 years

Search share

46.9%

Traffic sources

  • Search
    46.9%
  • Direct
    34.8%
  • Referrals
    9.2%
  • Social
    7.8%
  • Generative AI
    0.6%
  • Email
    0.5%
  • Display ads
    0.2%
  • Other
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%

Regions

  • United States
    30.3%
  • India
    6.9%
  • Russia
    6.1%
  • United Kingdom
    4.6%
  • Canada
    3.7%

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Search visibility

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. BRAND4.04M2.72M149%
  2. BRAND2.95M2.01M147%
  3. BRAND630.59K540.42K117%
  4. BRAND421.39K435.47K97%
  5. BRAND349.65K287.63K122%

Keyword rankings

Keyword rankings

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Backlink rank

Global position

#61

Unchanged

2026-10-31

Referring IPs
224,470
Referring subnets
90,213
.ORG rank
#8

Baidu rank

Site profile

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
1.8 KiB
Hosting
INTERNET-ARCHIVE · AS7941
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 108 days
Page and SEO
Title
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
0
Internal / external links
0 / 0
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 0
Images missing alt
0 / 0
Technology and tracking
Server
nginx/1.31.3
Security headers
3 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS · CSP
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
google
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Atlassian · Brave · Google · Microsoft
SOA
ns1.archive.org
NS
ns0208.secondary.cloudflare.com. · ns2.archive.org. · ns3.archive.org. · 3 more
MX
100 smtp.google.com.
Hosting and networkAS7941
A
207.241.224.2
Hosting ASN
AS7941 · 207.241.224.0/24
Hosting organization
INTERNET-ARCHIVE - Internet Archive
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
www.archive.org
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
Certificate remaining
108 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:*.archive.org · DNS:archive.org
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 1,504
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
0
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/.well-known/security.txt
Present · 89 B
security summary
Contact: mailto:info@archive.org · Canonical: https://archive.org/.well-known/security.txt

Website information

Domain
archive.org
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1995-12-14
Registrar
easyDNS Technologies Inc.
Expires
2030-12-13
Domain age
31 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client transfer prohibited · client update prohibited

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What's in this report

The report starts with a whole-site monthly visit estimate. Search visibility and public site facts follow when they exist.

  • Website traffic is a modeled whole-site estimate, with a source, observation period and confidence.
  • Search visibility is ranking keywords and search traffic, listed separately from whole-site visits.
  • Missing or partial values stay marked in the report.
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archive.org had about 160.9M visits in September 2026, down 0.92% from August; the top source is search. Source: Vaneform estimates, https://vaneform.com/e/archive-org (updated 2026-10-08).

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