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darkreading.com had about 310.91K visits in September 2026, down 1.86% from August; the top source is direct.

Dark Reading | Security | Protect The Business

Traffic

310.91K

-1.86%MoMEstimated monthly visits
789342.14K228.1K114.05K0
Global rank

177,178

Country rank · United States

80,695

Category rank · Computers Electronics and Technology

1,616

Average visit duration

00:45

Pages per visit

1.55

Bounce rate

56.59%

Domain age

23 years

Search share

18.8%

Traffic sources

  • Direct
    35.3%
  • Display ads
    21.0%
  • Search
    18.8%
  • Referrals
    10.7%
  • Social
    10.6%
  • Email
    2.1%
  • Generative AI
    1.5%
  • Other
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%

Regions

  • United States
    51.2%
  • India
    7.1%
  • United Kingdom
    6.6%
  • New Zealand
    2.3%
  • Australia
    2.1%

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Search visibility

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. dark readingBRAND7.08K7.28K97%
  2. hugging face incident2.47K199.2K1%
  3. hugging face attack2.41K78.36K3%
  4. dark reading becky brackenBRAND1.03K940110%
  5. dark reading arielle waldmanBRAND970860113%

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

  • HTTP 200
  • Hosting ASN
  • DNSSEC
HTTP
200
Page size
478.3 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 82 days
Page and SEOSchema 5
Title
Dark Reading | Security | Protect The Business
Description
Dark Reading: Connecting The Cybersecurity Community.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
1,620
Internal / external links
111 / 20
Canonical
https://www.darkreading.com/
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 3
Images missing alt
2 / 47
Schema
ImageObject · NewsMediaOrganization · OnlineBusiness · Organization · QuantitativeValue
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking4 tracking
Technology clues
Cloudflare · React
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Ads · Meta Pixel · Cloudflare Web Analytics
External script hosts
transcend-cdn.com · securepubads.g.doubleclick.net · googletagmanager.com · connect.facebook.net · instagram.com · static.cloudflareinsights.com
Social links
twitter.com · linkedin.com · facebook.com · bsky.app · instagram.com · youtube.com
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS security
SPF
Not found
DMARC
Not found
DKIM selectors
Not found
Mail stack
Mimecast
IPv6
AAAA present
DNSSEC
DNSKEY · AD
Site verification TXT
Google · Microsoft
SOA
ns1.ubmdns.com
NS
ns1.ubmdns.com. · ns2.ubmdns.com.
MX
10 us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com. · 10 us-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com.
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
104.16.221.171 · 104.16.222.171 · 104.16.223.171 · 104.16.224.171 · 1 more
AAAA
2606:4700::6810:ddab · 2606:4700::6810:deab · 2606:4700::6810:dfab · 2606:4700::6810:e0ab · 1 more
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 104.16.208.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
82 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:darkreading.com · DNS:*.darkreading.com
robots and AI crawling11 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
AI explicitly disallowed
11
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
GPTBot · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Bytespider · CCBot · cohere-ai · Amazonbot · meta-externalagent · 3 more
Well-known public paths
Present / checked
0 / 5

Website information

Domain
darkreading.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2003-07-17
Registrar
SafeNames Ltd.
Expires
2027-07-17
Domain age
23 years
DNSSEC
Yes
Registry status
client delete prohibited · client transfer prohibited · client update 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.