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bl.uk had about 896.8K visits in September 2026, up 3.89% from August; the top source is search.

The British Library - the national Library of the UK

Website traffic

How much traffic does bl.uk get?

896.8K

+3.89%MoMEstimated monthly visits
789968.55K645.7K322.85K0
Global rank

31,171

Country rank · Ethiopia

26

Category rank · Libraries and Museums

57

Average visit duration

03:31

Pages per visit

12.65

Bounce rate

44.89%

Domain age

31 years

Search share

42.0%

Sources

Where does bl.uk's traffic come from?

  • Search
    42.0%
  • Direct
    33.6%
  • Referrals
    7.9%
  • Social
    5.1%
  • Display ads
    3.9%
  • Generative AI
    3.2%
  • Email
    2.2%
  • Paid search
    2.0%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit bl.uk?

  • United Kingdom
    36.1%
  • United States
    24.4%
  • Italy
    3.2%
  • France
    2.3%
  • Germany
    2.2%

See how bl.uk compares with the most visited websites in the world, the fastest growing websites and sites gaining organic search traffic.

Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to bl.uk?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. british libraryBRAND17.4K30.28K58%
  2. british library catalogueBRAND7.65K5.84K131%
  3. british library opening timesBRAND3.14K4.58K69%
  4. the british libraryBRAND2.86K6.19K46%
  5. british library jobsBRAND2.36K1.89K125%

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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Baidu rank

Site profile

What does bl.uk show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
196.9 KiB
Hosting
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK · AS8075
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC quarantine
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 119 days
Page and SEO
Title
The British Library - the national Library of the UK
Description
Visit the national library of the UK. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items. Join us.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
381
Internal / external links
40 / 5
Canonical
https://www.bl.uk/
Language
en
H1 / H2
1 / 4
Images missing alt
0 / 7
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking1 tracking
Technology clues
Next.js · Sanity · React
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager
Social links
twitter.com · facebook.com · instagram.com · tiktok.com
Security headers
6 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS · CSP
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · quarantine
MTA-STS / BIMI
MTA-STS
DKIM selectors
selector1 · selector2 · s1 · s2
Mail stack
Microsoft 365
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Google
SOA
ns1-06.azure-dns.com
NS
ns1-06.azure-dns.com. · ns2-06.azure-dns.net. · ns3-06.azure-dns.org. · 1 more
MX
0 bl-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com.
Hosting and networkAS8075
A
150.171.110.134
Hosting ASN
AS8075 · 150.171.0.0/16
Hosting organization
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1
Certificate remaining
119 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:bl.uk
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
URL set · 629
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
16
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/.well-known/security.txt
Present · 261 B
security summary
Contact: https://hackerone.com/4faee172-90ab-4690-8e26-104ba0e64fcb/embedded_submissions/new · Expires: 2026-12-31T00:01:00.000Z · Preferred-Languages: en

Website information

When was bl.uk registered?

Domain
bl.uk
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1995-11-07
Registrar
Nominet UK
Expires
2027-11-07
Domain age
31 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
active

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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.