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cnn.com had about 289.19M visits in September 2026, down 7.71% from August; most traffic is direct.

Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN

Website traffic

How much traffic does cnn.com get?

289.19M

-7.71%MoMEstimated monthly visits
789379.9M253.27M126.63M0
Global rank

178

Country rank · United States

81

Category rank · News and Media

5

Average visit duration

02:45

Pages per visit

2.07

Bounce rate

59.18%

Domain age

33 years

Search share

23.2%

Sources

Where does cnn.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    68.4%
  • Search
    23.2%
  • Social
    2.8%
  • Email
    2.7%
  • Referrals
    2.4%
  • Generative AI
    0.2%
  • Paid search
    0.2%
  • Display ads
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit cnn.com?

  • United States
    71.2%
  • Canada
    8.7%
  • United Kingdom
    1.9%
  • Germany
    1.5%
  • India
    1.0%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to cnn.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. cnnBRAND7.2M4.15M174%
  2. lindsay clancy2.26M6.48M35%
  3. news451.4K9.02M5%
  4. cnn newsBRAND363.8K148.29K245%
  5. porn353.01K8.06M4%

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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Site profile

What does cnn.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
2.0 MiB
Hosting
FASTLY · AS54113
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 163 days
Page and SEOSchema 4
Title
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
Description
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
0
Internal / external links
0 / 0
Canonical
https://www.cnn.com/
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 0
Images missing alt
0 / 0
Schema
NewsMediaOrganization · SearchAction · WebPage · WebSite
Hreflang
en-gb · en-ca · en-us · x-default
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking1 tracking
Technology clues
Bootstrap · Consent manager
Tracking clues
Google Ads
External script hosts
cdn.optimizely.com
Security headers
2 / 6
HSTS / CSP
CSP
Alt-Svc
Set
Cookie
6(Secure 6)
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
MTA-STS / BIMI
BIMI
DKIM selectors
selector1 · k1 · s1 · s2
Mail stack
Microsoft 365
IPv6
AAAA present
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Atlassian · Canva · Facebook · Google · Stripe
SOA
ns-1652.awsdns-14.co.uk
NS
ns-1242.awsdns-27.org. · ns-1652.awsdns-14.co.uk. · ns-378.awsdns-47.com. · 1 more
MX
10 cnn-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.
Hosting and networkAS54113
A
151.101.195.5 · 151.101.131.5 · 151.101.3.5 · 151.101.67.5
AAAA
2a04:4e42:200::773 · 2a04:4e42:400::773 · 2a04:4e42:600::773 · 2a04:4e42::773
Hosting ASN
AS54113 · 151.101.192.0/22
Hosting organization
FASTLY - Fastly, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
GlobalSign Atlas E46 OV TLS CA 2026 Q3
Certificate remaining
163 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:cnn.com · DNS:*.cnn.com
robots and AI crawling15 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
URL set · 294
AI explicitly disallowed
15
AI explicitly allowed
1
Disallow examples
GPTBot · ChatGPT-User · OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Google-Extended · GoogleOther · Bytespider · 7 more
Well-known public paths2 hits
Present / checked
2 / 5
/app-ads.txt
Present · 25.4 KiB
/ads.txt
Present · 44.5 KiB

Website information

When was cnn.com registered?

Domain
cnn.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1993-09-22
Registrar
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE
Expires
2027-09-21
Domain age
33 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client delete prohibited · client transfer prohibited · client update prohibited · server delete 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.