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distrowatch.com had about 1.3M visits in September 2026, down 9.29% from August; most traffic is direct.

DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

Website traffic

How much traffic does distrowatch.com get?

1.3M

-9.29%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7891.54M1.03M514.39K0
Global rank

38,946

Country rank · United States

36,004

Category rank · Programming and Developer Software

719

Average visit duration

02:26

Pages per visit

3.93

Bounce rate

39.67%

Domain age

25 years

Search share

25.3%

Sources

Where does distrowatch.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    66.7%
  • Search
    25.3%
  • Referrals
    3.4%
  • Social
    2.8%
  • Email
    1.2%
  • Generative AI
    0.4%
  • Display ads
    0.2%
  • Paid search
    0.0%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit distrowatch.com?

  • United States
    20.1%
  • Germany
    12.8%
  • China
    6.9%
  • Russia
    5.9%
  • Italy
    4.3%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to distrowatch.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. distrowatchBRAND69.64K49.47K141%
  2. omarchy9.24K502K2%
  3. lingmo os 5.0.0скачать4.74K—
  4. linux distros3.86K44.24K9%
  5. distro watchBRAND3.34K2.75K122%

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 distrowatch.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
238.6 KiB
Hosting
AS-VULTR · AS20473
Email authentication
SPF
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 53 days
Page and SEO
Title
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
Description
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
6,617
Internal / external links
282 / 275
H1 / H2
0 / 0
Images missing alt
26 / 167
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed
Technology and tracking5 technologies
Technology clues
WordPress · React · Vue · PayPal · PHP
External script hosts
contextual.media.net · pagead2.googlesyndication.com
Social links
github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · 8 more
Server
Apache/2.4.68 (FreeBSD) OpenSSL/3.5.6 PHP/8.5.9
Security headers
0 / 6
Cookie
1(Secure 1)
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Not found
DKIM selectors
Not found
Mail stack
Zoho Mail
IPv6
AAAA present
Site verification TXT
Zoho
SOA
ns1.gandi.net
NS
ns-197-c.gandi.net. · ns-231-b.gandi.net. · ns-57-a.gandi.net.
MX
10 mx.zoho.com. · 20 mx2.zoho.com. · 50 mx3.zoho.com.
Hosting and networkAS20473
A
140.82.53.14
AAAA
2001:19f0:6801:df1:5400:6ff:fe44:c984
Hosting ASN
AS20473 · 140.82.52.0/22
Hosting organization
AS-VULTR - The Constant Company, LLC
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
140.82.53.14.vultrusercontent.com
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
YE1
Certificate remaining
53 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:distrowatch.com · DNS:www.distrowatch.com
robots and AI crawling7 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Discovered
AI explicitly disallowed
7
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
GPTBot · OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot · Bytespider · PerplexityBot · Amazonbot · Diffbot
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 134 B

Website information

When was distrowatch.com registered?

Domain
distrowatch.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2001-07-03
Registrar
Gandi SAS
Expires
2028-07-03
Domain age
25 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.