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howstuffworks.com had about 3.67M visits in September 2026, down 1.82% from August; most traffic is search.

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Website traffic

How much traffic does howstuffworks.com get?

3.67M

-1.82%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7894.22M2.81M1.41M0
Global rank

19,183

Country rank · United States

7,117

Category rank · Science and Education

29

Average visit duration

01:16

Pages per visit

1.87

Bounce rate

61.16%

Domain age

28 years

Search share

68.1%

Sources

Where does howstuffworks.com's traffic come from?

  • Search
    68.1%
  • Direct
    23.2%
  • Referrals
    4.5%
  • Social
    3.0%
  • Email
    0.7%
  • Generative AI
    0.5%
  • Paid search
    0.1%
  • Display ads
    0.0%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit howstuffworks.com?

  • United States
    54.0%
  • Canada
    5.7%
  • United Kingdom
    4.3%
  • Australia
    3.7%
  • India
    3.3%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to howstuffworks.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. c42.18K4.59M1%
  2. bleach filler list7.63K157.85K5%
  3. mp36.82K868.07K1%
  4. one piece filler list6.08K72.73K8%
  5. tech how toBRAND5.86K17.7K33%

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 howstuffworks.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 202
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
202
Page size
2.0 KiB
Hosting
AMAZON-02 · AS16509
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC quarantine
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 113 days
Page and SEO
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
0
Internal / external links
0 / 0
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 0
Images missing alt
0 / 0
Technology and tracking
External script hosts
5474cb65a01c.4d38a012.ap-northeast-1.token.awswaf.com
Server
CloudFront
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · quarantine
MTA-STS / BIMI
BIMI
DKIM selectors
google · k1
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Atlassian · DocuSign · Facebook · Google · Microsoft · OneTrust
SOA
ns-230.awsdns-28.com
NS
ns-1026.awsdns-00.org. · ns-1723.awsdns-23.co.uk. · ns-230.awsdns-28.com. · 1 more
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com. · 2 more
Hosting and networkAS16509
A
3.164.121.76 · 3.164.121.91 · 3.164.121.67 · 3.164.121.39
Hosting ASN
AS16509 · 3.164.121.0/24
Hosting organization
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
server-3-164-121-76.nrt12.r.cloudfront.net
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
Amazon RSA 2048 M04
Certificate remaining
113 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:cdn-origin.hswinternal.com · DNS:zooquizzes.com · DNS:*.zooquizzes.com · DNS:travel.mapquest.com · 5 more
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 17
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
0
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 4.3 KiB

Website information

When was howstuffworks.com registered?

Domain
howstuffworks.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1998-07-11
Registrar
eNom, LLC
Expires
2030-07-10
Domain age
28 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.