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bbc.co.uk had about 455.47M visits in September 2026, down 8.93% from August; most traffic is direct.

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Website traffic

How much traffic does bbc.co.uk get?

455.47M

-8.93%MoMEstimated monthly visits
56789700.01M466.68M233.34M0
Global rank

92

Country rank · United Kingdom

6

Category rank · News and Media

1

Average visit duration

04:16

Pages per visit

3.20

Bounce rate

45.03%

Domain age

32 years

Search share

24.9%

Sources

Where does bbc.co.uk's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    61.0%
  • Search
    24.9%
  • Referrals
    6.1%
  • Social
    5.5%
  • Email
    1.7%
  • Display ads
    0.5%
  • Generative AI
    0.2%
  • Paid search
    0.0%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit bbc.co.uk?

  • United Kingdom
    88.9%
  • United States
    3.9%
  • Canada
    0.6%
  • Germany
    0.6%
  • Australia
    0.5%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to bbc.co.uk?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. bbc newsBRAND8.83M3.97M223%
  2. bbc sportBRAND3.57M1.35M266%
  3. football today2.05M317.54K644%
  4. weather2.01M18.33M11%
  5. bbcBRAND1.98M2.57M77%

Keyword rankings

Keyword rankings

Example · google.comUnited States · English

86.4M

Search estimate

New 1 · Up 2

Ranking keywords
12,400
Landing pages
4
Search competitors
4
AI citations
2
PositionEstimated visits
  1. google#142M
  2. gmail#118.2M
  3. google maps#19.4M
  4. google drive#14.1M

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Site profile

What does bbc.co.uk show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
729.2 KiB
Hosting
FASTLY · AS54113
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 107 days
Page and SEOSchema 4
Title
BBC - Home
Description
The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
2,017
Internal / external links
116 / 16
Canonical
https://www.bbc.co.uk/
Language
en-GB
Noindex
No
H1 / H2
1 / 18
Images missing alt
2 / 98
Schema
CollectionPage · ImageObject · ItemList · NewsMediaOrganization
Hreflang
en · en-gb
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Manifest
Technology and tracking1 technologies
Technology clues
React
External script hosts
static.files.bbci.co.uk
Server
BBC-GTM
Security headers
6 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS · CSP
Alt-Svc
Set
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
MTA-STS / BIMI
BIMI
DKIM selectors
Not found
IPv6
AAAA present
CAA issuers
amazon.com · digicert.com · globalsign.com
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Apple · Atlassian · DocuSign · Google
SOA
ns.bbc.co.uk
NS
dns0.bbc.co.uk. · dns0.bbc.com. · dns1.bbc.co.uk. · 5 more
MX
10 cluster1.eu.messagelabs.com. · 20 cluster1a.eu.messagelabs.com.
Hosting and networkAS54113
A
151.101.0.81 · 151.101.64.81 · 151.101.128.81 · 151.101.192.81
AAAA
2a04:4e42:600::81 · 2a04:4e42::81 · 2a04:4e42:200::81 · 2a04:4e42:400::81
Hosting ASN
AS54113 · 151.101.0.0/22
Hosting organization
FASTLY - Fastly, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
GlobalSign GCC R46 OV TLS CA 2025
Certificate remaining
107 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:www.bbc.com · DNS:account.bbc.com · DNS:session.bbc.com · DNS:account.bbc.co.uk · 16 more
robots and AI crawling14 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 6
AI explicitly disallowed
14
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
GPTBot · ChatGPT-User · OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Google-Extended · Bytespider · CCBot · 6 more
Well-known public paths3 hits
Present / checked
3 / 5
/.well-known/security.txt
Present · 1.1 KiB
/app-ads.txt
Present · 3.2 KiB
/ads.txt
Present · 3.3 KiB
security summary
Contact: mailto:security@bbc.co.uk · Policy: https://www.bbc.com/backstage/security-disclosure-policy/ · https://careers.bbc.co.uk/search/

Website information

When was bbc.co.uk registered?

Domain
bbc.co.uk
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1994-12-13
Registrar
British Broadcasting Corporation
Expires
2034-12-13
Domain age
32 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
server delete prohibited · server transfer prohibited · server 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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