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charlotteobserver.com had about 2.04M visits in October 2026, down 2.54% from September; the top source is direct.

Charlotte News: Breaking, Sports & Crime | Charlotte Observer

Traffic

2.04M

-2.54%MoMEstimated monthly visits
789102.63M1.75M876.32K0
Global rank

27,335

Country rank · United States

5,781

Category rank · News and Media

274

Average visit duration

01:18

Pages per visit

2.92

Bounce rate

65.98%

Domain age

29 years

Search share

37.5%

Traffic sources

  • Direct
    37.5%
  • Search
    37.5%
  • Social
    11.3%
  • Referrals
    5.3%
  • Email
    4.7%
  • Display ads
    3.4%
  • Generative AI
    0.2%
  • Paid search
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

  • United States
    92.7%
  • Canada
    0.9%
  • United Kingdom
    0.5%
  • India
    0.4%
  • Australia
    0.3%

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Search visibility

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. 36.44K460.81K8%
  2. 8.1K531.1K2%
  3. BRAND6.83K4.16K164%
  4. 6.49K13.59K48%
  5. 5.51K155.96K4%

Keyword rankings

Keyword rankings

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Backlink rank

Global position

#4,099

50

2026-10-31

Referring IPs
14,387
Referring subnets
6,041
.COM rank
#2,039

Baidu rank

Site profile

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
  • DNSSEC
HTTP
200
Page size
237.3 KiB
Hosting
GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM · AS396982
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC quarantine
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 53 days
Page and SEOSchema 1
Title
Charlotte News: Breaking, Sports & Crime | Charlotte Observer
Description
Today's latest news from Charlotte and Mecklenburg covering local business, sports, crime, politics and community updates from North Carolina.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
1,188
Internal / external links
137 / 32
Canonical
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 8
Images missing alt
1 / 29
Schema
NewsMediaOrganization
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed
Technology and tracking1 tracking
Tracking clues
Google Ads
Social links
facebook.com · twitter.com · instagram.com · youtube.com · facebook.com · x.com · youtube.com · tiktok.com
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · quarantine
DKIM selectors
google · k1 · s1 · s2
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
No AAAA
DNSSEC
DNSKEY · AD
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Google · Microsoft
SOA
ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com
NS
ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com. · ns-cloud-b2.googledomains.com. · ns-cloud-b3.googledomains.com. · 1 more
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. · 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. · 2 more
Hosting and networkAS396982
A
34.107.215.110
Hosting ASN
AS396982 · 34.104.0.0/14
Hosting organization
GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
110.215.107.34.bc.googleusercontent.com
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WR3
Certificate remaining
53 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:charlotteobserver.com
robots and AI crawling6 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
AI explicitly disallowed
6
AI explicitly allowed
2
Disallow examples
Bytespider · CCBot · cohere-ai · meta-externalagent · Applebot-Extended · Diffbot
Well-known public paths2 hits
Present / checked
2 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 45.9 KiB
/app-ads.txt
Present · 176 B

Website information

Domain
charlotteobserver.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1997-08-15
Registrar
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
Expires
2027-08-14
Domain age
29 years
DNSSEC
Yes
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.
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charlotteobserver.com had about 2.04M visits in October 2026, down 2.54% from September; the top source is direct. Source: Vaneform estimates, https://vaneform.com/e/charlotteobserver-com (updated 2026-11-13).

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