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defense.gov had about 1.11M visits in September 2026, up 11.24% from August; the top source is search.

Home | U.S. Department of War

Website traffic

How much traffic does defense.gov get?

1.11M

+11.24%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7891.22M813.02K406.51K0
Global rank

60,422

Country rank · United States

17,955

Category rank · National Security

38

Average visit duration

00:58

Pages per visit

1.60

Bounce rate

63.41%

Domain age

24 years

Search share

40.5%

Sources

Where does defense.gov's traffic come from?

  • Search
    40.5%
  • Direct
    33.7%
  • Referrals
    19.5%
  • Generative AI
    2.9%
  • Social
    2.7%
  • Email
    0.6%
  • Display ads
    0.1%
  • Paid search
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit defense.gov?

  • United States
    69.7%
  • Japan
    2.4%
  • United Kingdom
    2.3%
  • China
    1.9%
  • Germany
    1.4%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to defense.gov?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. dick cheney4.1K101.09K4%
  2. 9/113.77K1.14M0%
  3. military pay calculator3.51K18.39K19%
  4. rmc calculator3.38K2.48K136%
  5. doqw2.62K16.41K16%

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 defense.gov show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
  • DNSSEC
HTTP
200
Page size
206.8 KiB
Hosting
AKAMAI-AS · AS16625
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 139 days
Page and SEOSchema 1
Title
Home | U.S. Department of War
Description
The Department of War is America's largest government agency. Our mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
1,381
Internal / external links
89 / 35
Language
en-US
H1 / H2
1 / 10
Images missing alt
2 / 22
Schema
Organization
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking1 tracking
Technology clues
Bootstrap · jQuery
Tracking clues
Matomo
External script hosts
cdn.jsdelivr.net · cdn.dvidshub.net
Social links
twitter.com · facebook.com · instagram.com · linkedin.com · youtube.com
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
google
IPv6
AAAA present
DNSSEC
DNSKEY · AD
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
hadar.dma.mil
NS
eur6.akam.net. · usc5.akam.net. · use2.akam.net. · 5 more
Hosting and networkAS16625
A
96.17.215.150
AAAA
2600:1406:4e00:182::3a30 · 2600:1406:4e00:184::3a30
Hosting ASN
AS16625 · 96.17.208.0/20
Hosting organization
AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
a96-17-215-150.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1
Certificate remaining
139 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:stats.defense.gov · DNS:defense.gov · DNS:media.defense.gov · DNS:static.defense.gov · 1 more
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

When was defense.gov registered?

Domain
defense.gov
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2002-10-03
Registrar
get.gov
Expires
2027-09-03
Domain age
24 years
DNSSEC
Yes
Registry status
server 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.