Website traffic
How much traffic does boston.com get?
7.04M
+2.97%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7.6M5.07M2.53M0
Global rank
8,950
Country rank · United States
1,896
Category rank · News and Media
97
Average visit duration
05:08
Pages per visit
3.00
Bounce rate
50.71%
Domain age
31 years
Search share
23.5%
Sources
Where does boston.com's traffic come from?
- Direct61.9%
- Search23.5%
- Social4.7%
- Email3.6%
- Referrals3.2%
- Paid search1.7%
- Display ads1.0%
- Generative AI0.4%
- Other0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit boston.com?
- United States94.7%
- Canada1.0%
- United Kingdom0.4%
- Brazil0.3%
- Australia0.2%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to boston.com?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- lindsay clancy561.53K6.48M9%
- tj maxx72.38K252.63K29%
- boston newsBRAND20.63K67.67K31%
- bostonBRAND15.69K414.33K4%
- clancy trial14.41K230.6K6%
Keyword rankings
Keyword rankings
86.4M
Search estimate
New 1 · Up 2
- Ranking keywords
- 12,400
- Landing pages
- 4
- Search competitors
- 4
- AI citations
- 2
PositionEstimated visits
- google#142M
- gmail#118.2M
- google maps#19.4M
- google drive#14.1M
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What does boston.com show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 362.5 KiB
- Hosting
- CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC none
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 75 days
Page and SEOSchema 9
- Final URL
- https://www.boston.com/
- Title
- Boston.com: Local breaking news, sports, weather, and things to do
- Description
- What Boston cares about right now: Get breaking updates on news, sports, and weather. Local alerts, things to do, and more on Boston.com.
- Cross-origin redirect
- Yes
- Word count
- 1,840
- Internal / external links
- 180 / 22
- Canonical
- https://www.boston.com/
- Language
- en-US
- H1 / H2
- 1 / 25
- Images missing alt
- 63 / 89
- Schema
- BreadcrumbList · EntryPoint · ListItem · NewsMediaOrganization · PropertyValueSpecification · ReadAction · 3 more
- OG / Twitter
- OG · Twitter
- OG locale
- en_US
- Feed / Manifest / AMP
- Feed · Manifest
Technology and tracking4 tracking
- Technology clues
- WordPress · jQuery · React · Consent manager · Cloudflare
- Tracking clues
- Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Google Ads · Meta Pixel
- External script hosts
- bdc2020.o0bc.com · apps.bostonglobe.com · static.chartbeat.com · cdn.blueconic.net · auth.boston.com · p.teads.tv · googletagmanager.com · widgets.outbrain.com
- Social links
- instagram.com · x.com · facebook.com
- Server
- cloudflare
- Security headers
- 2 / 6
- HSTS / CSP
- HSTS · CSP
- Cookie
- 1（Secure 1）
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · none
- DKIM selectors
- Mail stack
- Google Workspace
- IPv6
- AAAA present
- Site verification TXT
- Atlassian · Brave · DocuSign · Facebook · Google
- SOA
- noah.ns.cloudflare.com
- NS
- noah.ns.cloudflare.com. · teagan.ns.cloudflare.com.
- MX
- 1 smtp.google.com.
Hosting and networkAS13335
- A
- 104.18.19.63 · 104.18.18.63
- AAAA
- 2606:4700::6812:133f · 2606:4700::6812:123f
- Hosting ASN
- AS13335 · 104.18.16.0/20
- Hosting organization
- CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- WE1
- Certificate remaining
- 75 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:boston.com · DNS:*.boston.com
robots and AI crawling12 disallowed
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- Sitemap
- Index · 118
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 12
- AI explicitly allowed
- 4
- Disallow examples
- GPTBot · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Google-Extended · GoogleOther · Bytespider · CCBot · cohere-ai · 4 more
Well-known public paths2 hits
- Present / checked
- 2 / 5
- /ads.txt
- Present · 20.7 KiB
- /app-ads.txt
- Present · 20.9 KiB
Website information
When was boston.com registered?
- Domain
- boston.com
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 1995-06-26
- Registrar
- Name106, Inc.
- Expires
- 2027-04-07
- Domain age
- 31 years
- DNSSEC
- No
- Registry status
- client 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.