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guardian.co.uk had about 7.81M visits in September 2026, down 8.15% from August; most traffic is direct.

Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian

Website traffic

How much traffic does guardian.co.uk get?

7.81M

-8.15%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7899.18M6.12M3.06M0
Global rank

15,794

Country rank · Australia

1,164

Category rank · News and Media

59

Average visit duration

01:59

Pages per visit

1.21

Bounce rate

81.76%

Domain age

31 years

Search share

27.7%

Sources

Where does guardian.co.uk's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    59.7%
  • Search
    27.7%
  • Email
    7.5%
  • Referrals
    3.0%
  • Generative AI
    1.1%
  • Social
    0.5%
  • Display ads
    0.5%
  • Other
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit guardian.co.uk?

  • United Kingdom
    11.7%
  • Canada
    10.7%
  • United States
    10.4%
  • Australia
    3.2%
  • France
    3.1%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to guardian.co.uk?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. guardian ukBRAND1.28K137.55K1%
  2. the guardianBRAND360769.02K0%
  3. guardian.co.ukBRAND260220118%
  4. world map2001.73M0%
  5. map of the world150166.97K0%

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 guardian.co.uk show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
1.3 MiB
Hosting
FASTLY · AS54113
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 147 days
Page and SEO
Title
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
Description
Latest international news, sport and comment from the Guardian
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
3,145
Internal / external links
227 / 11
Canonical
https://www.theguardian.com/
Language
en
Noindex
No
H1 / H2
0 / 34
Images missing alt
2 / 115
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed · Manifest
Technology and tracking1 tracking
Technology clues
Sentry · Bot protection
Tracking clues
Google Ads
External script hosts
assets.guim.co.uk
Social links
bsky.app · facebook.com · instagram.com · linkedin.com · tiktok.com · youtube.com
Security headers
6 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS · CSP
Alt-Svc
Set
Cookie
6(Secure 4)
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
MTA-STS / BIMI
MTA-STS
DKIM selectors
google
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Apple · Atlassian · DocuSign · Google · Microsoft
SOA
dns1.p02.nsone.net
NS
dns1.p02.nsone.net. · dns2.p02.nsone.net. · dns3.p02.nsone.net. · 5 more
MX
30 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com. · 30 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com. · 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. · 2 more
Hosting and networkAS54113
A
151.101.129.111 · 151.101.193.111 · 151.101.1.111 · 151.101.65.111
Hosting ASN
AS54113 · 151.101.128.0/22
Hosting organization
FASTLY - Fastly, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
GlobalSign Atlas R46 DV TLS CA 2026 Q3
Certificate remaining
147 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:theguardian.com · DNS:*.code.dev-guardianapis.com · DNS:*.code.dev-theguardian.com · DNS:*.dev-theguardian.com · 16 more
robots and AI crawling9 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
URL set · 533
AI explicitly disallowed
9
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Bytespider · CCBot · PerplexityBot · Amazonbot · meta-externalagent · FacebookBot · 1 more
Well-known public paths4 hits
Present / checked
4 / 5
/.well-known/security.txt
Present · 203 B
/app-ads.txt
Present · 1.4 KiB
/ads.txt
Present · 7.6 KiB
/humans.txt
Present · 8.2 KiB
security summary
Contact: mailto:appsec@theguardian.com · Canonical: https://www.theguardian.com/.well-known/security.txt · Hiring: https://workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search?role=Technology

Website information

When was guardian.co.uk registered?

Domain
guardian.co.uk
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1995-06-16
Registrar
GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Expires
2027-06-16
Domain age
31 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client transfer prohibited · client update prohibited · client renew prohibited · client delete 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.