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loc.gov had about 6.23M visits in September 2026, up 19.15% from August; the top source is search.

Home | Library of Congress

Website traffic

How much traffic does loc.gov get?

6.23M

+19.15%MoMEstimated monthly visits
567896.73M4.49M2.24M0
Global rank

5,680

Country rank · United States

1,763

Category rank · Government

39

Average visit duration

06:13

Pages per visit

8.45

Bounce rate

32.16%

Domain age

29 years

Search share

41.5%

Sources

Where does loc.gov's traffic come from?

  • Search
    41.5%
  • Direct
    40.5%
  • Referrals
    8.7%
  • Generative AI
    4.4%
  • Social
    3.3%
  • Email
    1.1%
  • Paid search
    0.3%
  • Display ads
    0.2%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit loc.gov?

  • United States
    71.4%
  • United Kingdom
    2.7%
  • Canada
    2.0%
  • Philippines
    1.6%
  • India
    1.2%

See how loc.gov 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 loc.gov?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. library of congressBRAND57.94K86.73K67%
  2. europe map25.21K405.38K6%
  3. drudge report17.28K212.23K8%
  4. map of europe10.91K245.04K5%
  5. chronicling america9.41K5.96K158%

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 loc.gov show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
  • DNSSEC
HTTP
200
Page size
76.3 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC none
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 88 days
Page and SEO
Title
Home | Library of Congress
Description
The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
1,119
Internal / external links
77 / 14
Language
en
H1 / H2
1 / 8
Images missing alt
9 / 60
OG / Twitter
OG
Technology and tracking4 technologies
Technology clues
WordPress · jQuery · Angular · Cloudflare
External script hosts
assets.adobedtm.com
Social links
facebook.com · x.com · youtube.com · instagram.com · linkedin.com
Server
cloudflare
Security headers
5 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS · CSP
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · none
DKIM selectors
Not found
IPv6
AAAA present
DNSSEC
DNSKEY · AD
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Atlassian · Google · Microsoft
SOA
alice.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
alice.ns.cloudflare.com. · kevin.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
10 mxa-00026101.gslb.gpphosted.com. · 10 mxb-00026101.gslb.gpphosted.com.
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
104.17.6.58 · 104.18.64.82
AAAA
2606:4700::6811:63a · 2606:4700::6812:4052
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 104.17.0.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
88 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:loc.gov · DNS:*.loc.gov · DNS:enroll.nls.loc.gov · DNS:*.enroll.nls.loc.gov
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 49
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
0
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/.well-known/security.txt
Present · 96 B
security summary
Contact: mailto:vdp@loc.gov · Policy: https://www.loc.gov/legal/vulnerability-disclosure-program/

Website information

When was loc.gov registered?

Domain
loc.gov
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1997-10-02
Registrar
get.gov
Expires
2027-07-07
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.
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