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ed.gov had about 4.82M visits in September 2026, up 5.79% from August; the top source is direct.

Home | U.S. Department of Education

Website traffic

How much traffic does ed.gov get?

4.82M

+5.79%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7895.21M3.47M1.74M0
Global rank

10,478

Country rank · United States

2,676

Category rank · Education

100

Average visit duration

03:06

Pages per visit

4.13

Bounce rate

52.93%

Domain age

29 years

Search share

39.9%

Sources

Where does ed.gov's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    43.9%
  • Search
    39.9%
  • Referrals
    8.9%
  • Generative AI
    3.8%
  • Social
    1.9%
  • Email
    1.5%
  • Display ads
    0.2%
  • Other
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit ed.gov?

  • United States
    75.7%
  • Philippines
    4.2%
  • Australia
    1.8%
  • India
    1.3%
  • Canada
    1.2%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to ed.gov?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. eric38.18K48.14K79%
  2. college scorecard25.35K12.75K199%
  3. department of educationBRAND21.29K38.81K55%
  4. eric ed govBRAND8.46K1.04K814%
  5. us department of educationBRAND7.66K5.3K145%

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 ed.gov show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
  • DNSSEC
HTTP
200
Page size
105.8 KiB
Hosting
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK · AS8075
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 110 days
Page and SEO
Title
Home | U.S. Department of Education
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
955
Internal / external links
111 / 19
Canonical
http://www.ed.gov/
Language
en
H1 / H2
1 / 4
Images missing alt
8 / 23
Hreflang
en
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking3 tracking
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Microsoft Clarity
External script hosts
dap.digitalgov.gov · googletagmanager.com
Social links
facebook.com · facebook.com · instagram.com · linkedin.com · twitter.com · youtube.com
Generator
Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
Security headers
5 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS · CSP
Cookie
4(Secure 4)
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
selector1
Mail stack
Microsoft 365
IPv6
AAAA present
DNSSEC
DNSKEY · AD
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Apple · Atlassian · Google · Microsoft
SOA
a1-100.akam.net
NS
a3-65.akam.net. · a6-64.akam.net. · a1-100.akam.net. · 3 more
MX
10 ed-gov.mail.protection.outlook.com.
Hosting and networkAS8075
A
150.171.110.138
AAAA
2603:1061:14:189::1
Hosting ASN
AS8075 · 150.171.0.0/16
Hosting organization
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1
Certificate remaining
110 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:ed.gov
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 404
Robots.txt
404
Sitemap
Index · 2
Well-known public paths
Present / checked
0 / 4

Website information

When was ed.gov registered?

Domain
ed.gov
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1997-10-02
Registrar
get.gov
Expires
2027-08-13
Domain age
29 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.