Website traffic
How much traffic does gao.gov get?
741.37K
+25.39%MoMEstimated monthly visits
800.68K533.79K266.89K0
Global rank
63,202
Country rank · United States
21,799
Category rank · Government
411
Average visit duration
01:29
Pages per visit
3.45
Bounce rate
56.11%
Domain age
29 years
Search share
34.4%
Sources
Where does gao.gov's traffic come from?
- Direct46.3%
- Search34.4%
- Generative AI8.3%
- Referrals7.2%
- Email2.4%
- Social1.4%
- Display ads0.1%
- Other0.0%
- Paid search0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit gao.gov?
- United States76.7%
- United Kingdom2.8%
- China1.5%
- Vietnam1.3%
- Germany1.1%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to gao.gov?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- gaoBRAND2.58K25.38K10%
- government accountability office2.11K3.04K69%
- havana syndrome2.02K16.2K13%
- ssi1.42K196.16K1%
- cloud seeding88017.85K5%
Keyword rankings
Keyword rankings
86.4M
Search estimate
New 1 · Up 2
- Ranking keywords
- 12,400
- Landing pages
- 4
- Search competitors
- 4
- AI citations
- 2
PositionEstimated visits
- google#142M
- gmail#118.2M
- google maps#19.4M
- google drive#14.1M
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What does gao.gov show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- DNSSEC
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 131.7 KiB
- Hosting
- AMAZON-AES · AS14618
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC reject
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 106 days
Page and SEO
- Final URL
- https://www.gao.gov/
- Title
- U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
- Description
- GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates federal spending and performance.
- Cross-origin redirect
- Yes
- Word count
- 1,174
- Internal / external links
- 71 / 9
- Canonical
- https://www.gao.gov/
- Language
- en
- H1 / H2
- 0 / 13
- Images missing alt
- 0 / 42
- OG / Twitter
- OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking1 tracking
- Technology clues
- jQuery
- Tracking clues
- Google Tag Manager
- Social links
- facebook.com · x.com · linkedin.com · bsky.app · instagram.com · youtube.com
- Generator
- Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org)
- Security headers
- 0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · reject
- DKIM selectors
- Not found
- Mail stack
- Proofpoint
- IPv6
- No AAAA
- DNSSEC
- DNSKEY · AD
- Site verification TXT
- Adobe · Microsoft
- SOA
- sauthns2.qwest.net
- NS
- sauthns1.qwest.net. · sauthns2.qwest.net.
- MX
- 10 mxa-0030d401.gslb.pphosted.com. · 10 mxb-0030d401.gslb.pphosted.com.
Hosting and networkAS14618
- A
- 52.72.207.206
- Hosting ASN
- AS14618 · 52.72.0.0/15
- Hosting organization
- AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc.
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- Reverse DNS
- ec2-52-72-207-206.compute-1.amazonaws.com
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36
- Certificate remaining
- 106 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:*.gao.gov · DNS:gao.gov
robots and AI crawling2 disallowed
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 2
- AI explicitly allowed
- 14
- Disallow examples
- Bytespider · PerplexityBot
Well-known public paths
- Present / checked
- 0 / 5
Website information
When was gao.gov registered?
- Domain
- gao.gov
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 1997-10-02
- Registrar
- get.gov
- Expires
- 2027-09-02
- 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.