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forebears.io had about 1.8M visits in September 2026, down 11.85% from August; most traffic is search.

Forebears: Names & Genealogy Resources

Website traffic

How much traffic does forebears.io get?

1.8M

-11.85%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7892.65M1.77M884.87K0
Global rank

27,130

Country rank · United States

17,269

Category rank · Public Records and Directories

18

Average visit duration

02:25

Pages per visit

3.86

Bounce rate

50.45%

Domain age

12 years

Search share

63.9%

Sources

Where does forebears.io's traffic come from?

  • Search
    63.9%
  • Direct
    30.7%
  • Social
    2.6%
  • Referrals
    1.8%
  • Generative AI
    0.8%
  • Display ads
    0.1%
  • Email
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit forebears.io?

  • United States
    37.0%
  • United Kingdom
    8.7%
  • Canada
    5.5%
  • Italy
    3.5%
  • Australia
    3.2%

See how forebears.io compares with the most visited websites in the world, the fastest growing websites and sites gaining organic search traffic.

Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to forebears.io?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. forebearsBRAND49.54K37.08K134%
  2. forebears ioBRAND6.43K1.7K378%
  3. forbears2.92K3.17K92%
  4. forebears.ioBRAND2.3K2.28K101%
  5. japanese surnames forebearsBRAND2.02K390518%

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 forebears.io show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
  • DNSSEC
HTTP
200
Page size
13.5 KiB
Hosting
HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online GmbH · AS24940
Email authentication
SPF
TLS
TLSv1.2 · 44 days
Page and SEO
Title
Forebears: Names & Genealogy Resources
Description
Explore the world's largest database of name meanings & distributions; and locate your ancestors in genealogical records ordered by place.
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
162
Internal / external links
52 / 0
Canonical
https://forebears.io/
H1 / H2
2 / 1
Images missing alt
0 / 0
Hreflang
en · de · es · fr · it · nl · pt · ru · 1 more
OG / Twitter
Twitter
Technology and tracking
External script hosts
a.pub.network
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Not found
DKIM selectors
Not found
IPv6
No AAAA
DNSSEC
DNSKEY · AD
Site verification TXT
Brave · Google · Yandex
SOA
miles.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
sue.ns.cloudflare.com. · miles.ns.cloudflare.com.
Hosting and networkAS24940
A
5.9.74.217
Hosting ASN
AS24940 · 5.9.0.0/16
Hosting organization
HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online GmbH
Hosting country
DE
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
static.217.74.9.5.clients.your-server.de
TLS
TLSv1.2 · Verified
Certificate issuer
YR2
Certificate remaining
44 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:forebears.io
robots and AI crawling1 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Discovered
AI explicitly disallowed
1
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
CCBot
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 10.3 KiB

Website information

When was forebears.io registered?

Domain
forebears.io
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2014-12-16
Registrar
NameCheap, Inc.
Expires
2028-12-16
Domain age
12 years
DNSSEC
Yes
Registry status
active

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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.