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defector.com had about 2.85M visits in September 2026, up 2.45% from August; most traffic is direct.

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Website traffic

How much traffic does defector.com get?

2.85M

+2.45%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7893.12M2.08M1.04M0
Global rank

23,965

Country rank · United States

5,346

Category rank · Sports

104

Average visit duration

05:05

Pages per visit

2.68

Bounce rate

46.30%

Domain age

27 years

Search share

12.9%

Sources

Where does defector.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    70.8%
  • Search
    12.9%
  • Social
    10.2%
  • Referrals
    3.1%
  • Email
    2.5%
  • Generative AI
    0.2%
  • Display ads
    0.2%
  • Paid search
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit defector.com?

  • United States
    89.1%
  • Canada
    3.7%
  • United Kingdom
    1.8%
  • Australia
    0.5%
  • Germany
    0.3%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to defector.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. patriots132.32K964.41K14%
  2. defectorBRAND55.97K37.77K148%
  3. chelsea fc7.1K386.61K2%
  4. madison keys4.35K100.12K4%
  5. ed sheeran2.86K3.31M0%

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

What does defector.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
835.2 KiB
Hosting
AUTOMATTIC · AS2635
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC none
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 30 days
Page and SEOSchema 3
Title
Homepage | Defector
Description
Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
1,214
Internal / external links
145 / 10
Canonical
https://defector.com/
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 31
Images missing alt
18 / 75
Schema
ImageObject · Organization · WebSite
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed
Technology and tracking1 tracking
Technology clues
WordPress · Next.js · React · Bot protection
Tracking clues
Google Ads
External script hosts
m.servedby-buysellads.com
Social links
bsky.app
Server
nginx
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · none
DKIM selectors
s1 · s2
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
cheryl.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
cheryl.ns.cloudflare.com. · zod.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 aspmx2.googlemail.com. · 10 aspmx3.googlemail.com. · 2 more
Hosting and networkAS2635
A
192.0.66.223
AAAA
2a04:fa87:fffd::c000:42df
Hosting ASN
AS2635 · 192.0.66.0/24
Hosting organization
AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
YE1
Certificate remaining
30 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:defector.com · DNS:www.defector.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 3
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
0
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 30.0 KiB

Website information

When was defector.com registered?

Domain
defector.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1999-12-08
Registrar
NameCheap, Inc.
Expires
2026-12-08
Domain age
27 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.