Website traffic
How much traffic does lwn.net get?
281.48K
+7.80%MoMEstimated monthly visits
304K202.66K101.33K0
Global rank
181,265
Country rank · United States
130,602
Category rank · Programming and Developer Software
2,351
Average visit duration
00:39
Pages per visit
1.86
Bounce rate
55.60%
Domain age
28 years
Search share
19.2%
Sources
Where does lwn.net's traffic come from?
- Direct46.8%
- Social23.7%
- Search19.2%
- Referrals7.8%
- Generative AI1.4%
- Email1.0%
- Other0.1%
- Paid search0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit lwn.net?
- United States36.9%
- Germany8.0%
- India4.4%
- China4.0%
- United Kingdom3.6%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to lwn.net?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- alyssa rosenzweig90033.02K3%
- linux news4202.6K16%
- nix docker layer limit35038092%
- rockbox 4.0下载350—
- emacs map view250—
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 lwn.net show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 30.3 KiB
- Hosting
- AKAMAI-LINODE-AP · AS63949
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC none
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 48 days
Page and SEO
- Final URL
- https://lwn.net/
- Title
- Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
- Cross-origin redirect
- No
- Word count
- 2,607
- Internal / external links
- 45 / 24
- Language
- en
- Noindex
- No
- H1 / H2
- 1 / 20
- Images missing alt
- 0 / 2
- Feed / Manifest / AMP
- Feed
Technology and tracking1 technologies
- Technology clues
- React
- External script hosts
- servedby.aqua-adserver.com
- Social links
- github.com · github.com · youtube.com
- Server
- Apache/2.4.62 (CentOS Stream) OpenSSL/3.5.8
- Security headers
- 4 / 6
- HSTS / CSP
- HSTS
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · none
- DKIM selectors
- Not found
- IPv6
- AAAA present
- Site verification TXT
- SOA
- mdns.lwn.net
- NS
- static.lwn.net. · mdns.lwn.net.
- MX
- 1800 ms.lwn.net.
Hosting and networkAS63949
- A
- 173.255.236.65
- AAAA
- 2600:3c03::f03c:93ff:febd:80f5
- Hosting ASN
- AS63949 · 173.255.224.0/20
- Hosting organization
- AKAMAI-LINODE-AP - Akamai Connected Cloud
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- Reverse DNS
- prodcs.lwn.net
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- YE2
- Certificate remaining
- 48 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:linuxcalendar.com · DNS:linuxweek.net · DNS:linuxweeklynews.com · DNS:lwn.net · 5 more
robots and AI crawling3 disallowed
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 3
- AI explicitly allowed
- 0
- Disallow examples
- GPTBot · ClaudeBot · meta-externalagent
Well-known public paths
- Present / checked
- 0 / 5
Website information
When was lwn.net registered?
- Domain
- lwn.net
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 1998-05-22
- Registrar
- Tucows Domains Inc.
- Expires
- 2027-05-21
- Domain age
- 28 years
- DNSSEC
- No
- Registry status
- client transfer prohibited · client update 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.