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bbc.com

bbc.com had about 429.55M visits in August 2026, down 15.57% from July; most traffic is direct.

BBC Home - Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio

Website traffic

How much traffic does bbc.com get?

429.55M

-15.57%MoMEstimated monthly visits
678549.44M366.29M183.15M0
Global rank

108

Country rank · United States

166

Category rank · News and Media

11

Average visit duration

02:34

Pages per visit

2.35

Bounce rate

55.85%

Domain rating

93

Domain age

37 years

Search share

30.0%

Sources

Where does bbc.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    52.4%
  • Search
    30.0%
  • Referrals
    9.8%
  • Social
    5.2%
  • Email
    1.3%
  • Generative AI
    0.6%
  • Display ads
    0.6%
  • Paid search
    0.0%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit bbc.com?

  • United States
    28.3%
  • United Kingdom
    12.4%
  • Canada
    6.8%
  • Australia
    3.5%
  • Germany
    3.2%

Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to bbc.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. bbc newsBRAND4.23M4.26M99%
  2. bbcBRAND2.84M2.62M108%
  3. weather1.36M18.36M7%
  4. lindsay clancy1.03M4.81M21%
  5. porn856.21K8.55M10%

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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Backlink rank

DR

93

Baidu rank

Site profile

What does bbc.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
631.2 KiB
Hosting
FASTLY · AS54113
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 108 days
Page and SEOSchema 2
Title
BBC Home - Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Description
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
2,562
Internal / external links
187 / 6
Canonical
https://www.bbc.com/
Language
en-GB
Noindex
No
H1 / H2
0 / 134
Images missing alt
69 / 138
Schema
NewsMediaOrganization · WebPage
Hreflang
en · en-gb
OG / Twitter
OG
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Manifest
Technology and tracking3 technologies
Technology clues
Next.js · Bootstrap · React
External script hosts
static.files.bbci.co.uk · static.bbci.co.uk · cdn.optimizely.com · cdn.tinypass.com · gn-web-assets.api.bbc.com · emp.bbci.co.uk
Server
BBC-GTM
Security headers
4 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS
Alt-Svc
Set
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
k1
IPv6
AAAA present
CAA issuers
amazon.com · digicert.com · globalsign.com
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Atlassian · DocuSign · Google
SOA
ns.bbc.co.uk
NS
dns0.bbc.co.uk · dns0.bbc.com · dns1.bbc.co.uk · 5 more
MX
10 cluster8.eu.messagelabs.com · 20 cluster8a.eu.messagelabs.com
Hosting and networkAS54113
A
151.101.64.81 · 151.101.128.81 · 151.101.192.81 · 151.101.0.81
AAAA
2a04:4e42::81 · 2a04:4e42:200::81 · 2a04:4e42:400::81 · 2a04:4e42:600::81
Hosting ASN
AS54113 · 151.101.64.0/22
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
108 days
Certificate SAN
www.bbc.com · account.bbc.com · session.bbc.com · account.bbc.co.uk · 16 more
robots and AI crawling11 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
URL set · 100
AI explicitly disallowed
11
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Bytespider · CCBot · cohere-ai · PerplexityBot · Amazonbot · 3 more
Well-known public paths3 hits
Present / checked
3 / 5
/ads.txt
Present
/app-ads.txt
Present
/.well-known/security.txt
Present
security summary
Contact: mailto:[email protected] · Policy: https://www.bbc.com/backstage/security-disclosure-policy/ · https://careers.bbc.co.uk/search/

Website information

When was bbc.com registered?

Domain
bbc.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
7/15/1989
Registrar
Tucows Domains Inc.
Expires
7/14/2030
Domain age
37 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client transfer prohibited · client update prohibited · server delete prohibited · server transfer 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.