Website traffic
How much traffic does bu.edu get?
8.32M
+61.92%MoMEstimated monthly visits
8.99M5.99M3M0
Global rank
5,365
Country rank · United States
1,239
Category rank · Universities and Colleges
41
Average visit duration
08:11
Pages per visit
7.98
Bounce rate
26.28%
Search share
30.6%
Sources
Where does bu.edu's traffic come from?
- Direct50.5%
- Search30.6%
- Referrals7.4%
- Email6.2%
- Social3.5%
- Generative AI0.9%
- Paid search0.6%
- Display ads0.2%
- Other0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit bu.edu?
- United States92.7%
- United Kingdom0.7%
- South Korea0.6%
- Canada0.5%
- India0.4%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to bu.edu?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- boston university65.6K169.9K39%
- bu student portal40.54K25.61K158%
- bu library15.04K11.3K133%
- bu blackboard13.53K8.76K155%
- blackboard13.35K1.55M1%
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 bu.edu show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 149.7 KiB
- Hosting
- BOSTONU-AS · AS111
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC reject
- TLS
- TLSv1.2 · 131 days
Page and SEOSchema 7
- Final URL
- https://www.bu.edu/
- Title
- Homepage | Boston University
- Description
- Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
- Cross-origin redirect
- Yes
- Word count
- 402
- Internal / external links
- 71 / 10
- Canonical
- https://www.bu.edu/homepage-alt/
- Language
- en
- H1 / H2
- 0 / 0
- Images missing alt
- 6 / 10
- Schema
- BreadcrumbList · EntryPoint · ListItem · ReadAction · SearchAction · WebPage · 1 more
- OG / Twitter
- OG · Twitter
- OG locale
- en_US
- Feed / Manifest / AMP
- Feed
Technology and tracking4 tracking
- Technology clues
- WordPress · jQuery · Hotjar
- Tracking clues
- Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Google Ads · Microsoft Clarity
- External script hosts
- googletagmanager.com
- Social links
- twitter.com · facebook.com · youtube.com · linkedin.com · instagram.com · tiktok.com
- Server
- nginx/1.18.0
- Security headers
- 0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · reject
- DKIM selectors
- selector1 · selector2 · k1 · s1 · s2 · dkim
- IPv6
- No AAAA
- CAA issuers
- emsign.com · amazon.com · digicert.com · letsencrypt.org · 2 more
- Site verification TXT
- Adobe · Apple · Atlassian · Google · Microsoft
- SOA
- dns02.bu.edu
- NS
- edns01.bu.edu. · edns03.bu.edu. · edns02.bu.edu.
- MX
- 5 mx1.hc2706-39.iphmx.com. · 5 mx2.hc2706-39.iphmx.com.
Hosting and networkAS111
- A
- 128.197.236.4
- Hosting ASN
- AS111 · 128.197.0.0/16
- Hosting organization
- BOSTONU-AS - Boston University
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- Reverse DNS
- bu.edu
- TLS
- TLSv1.2 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA EV R36
- Certificate remaining
- 131 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:www.bu.edu · DNS:bu.edu
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 0
- AI explicitly allowed
- 0
Well-known public paths
- Present / checked
- 0 / 5
Website information
- Domain
- bu.edu
- Registration status
- Registration status unconfirmed
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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.