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iol.co.za

iol.co.za had about 9.05M visits in September 2026, down 4.40% from August; most traffic is direct.

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Website traffic

How much traffic does iol.co.za get?

9.05M

-4.40%MoMEstimated monthly visits
78911.04M7.36M3.68M0
Global rank

9,307

Country rank · South Africa

93

Category rank · News and Media

5

Average visit duration

01:09

Pages per visit

1.54

Bounce rate

34.25%

Search share

29.5%

Sources

Where does iol.co.za's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    59.8%
  • Search
    29.5%
  • Social
    4.3%
  • Referrals
    4.1%
  • Display ads
    1.0%
  • Email
    0.6%
  • Paid search
    0.4%
  • Generative AI
    0.3%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit iol.co.za?

  • South Africa
    88.0%
  • United States
    2.7%
  • United Kingdom
    1.6%
  • Canada
    1.2%
  • Australia
    0.7%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to iol.co.za?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. weather69.17K18.33M0%
  2. iol news58.41K17.63K331%
  3. iolBRAND29.92K81.14K37%
  4. bafana bafana15.95K50.15K32%
  5. pirates14.49K193.61K8%

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 iol.co.za show publicly?

Partially available
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC quarantine
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 89 days
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · quarantine
DKIM selectors
google
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
CAA issuers
comodoca.com · digicert.com · letsencrypt.org · pki.goog · 1 more
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
coco.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
coco.ns.cloudflare.com. · pete.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com. · 6 more
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
172.66.168.156 · 104.20.43.164
AAAA
2606:4700:10::6814:2ba4 · 2606:4700:10::ac42:a89c
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 172.66.160.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
89 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:iol.co.za · DNS:alf-khumalo.iol.co.za · DNS:*.alf-khumalo.iol.co.za
robots and AI crawling9 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
AI explicitly disallowed
9
AI explicitly allowed
7
Disallow examples
GPTBot · ChatGPT-User · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Bytespider · cohere-ai · Amazonbot · FacebookBot · 1 more
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 32.4 KiB

Website information

Domain
iol.co.za
Registration status
Registration status unconfirmed

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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.
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