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merriam-webster.com had about 62.58M visits in August 2026, up 1.04% from July; most traffic is search.

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Website traffic

How much traffic does merriam-webster.com get?

62.58M

+1.04%MoMEstimated monthly visits
67867.59M45.06M22.53M0
Global rank

788

Country rank · United States

291

Category rank · Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

3

Average visit duration

03:19

Pages per visit

2.93

Bounce rate

53.90%

Domain age

28 years

Search share

66.2%

Sources

Where does merriam-webster.com's traffic come from?

  • Search
    66.2%
  • Direct
    26.2%
  • Referrals
    3.3%
  • Social
    2.2%
  • Email
    0.9%
  • Paid search
    0.7%
  • Generative AI
    0.3%
  • Display ads
    0.2%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit merriam-webster.com?

  • United States
    61.3%
  • United Kingdom
    5.7%
  • Canada
    5.0%
  • Philippines
    3.2%
  • Australia
    3.1%

Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to merriam-webster.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. quordle991.96K282.7K351%
  2. octordle567.63K152.65K372%
  3. 5 letter words370.05K165.54K224%
  4. merriam websterBRAND292.11K204.41K143%
  5. thesaurus275.7K766.94K36%

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 merriam-webster.com show publicly?

Partially available
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
Hosting
AMAZON-02 · AS16509
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 84 days
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
MTA-STS / BIMI
MTA-STS
DKIM selectors
google · s1 · s2
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
ns-636.awsdns-15.net
NS
ns-1084.awsdns-07.org. · ns-1998.awsdns-57.co.uk. · ns-323.awsdns-40.com. · 1 more
MX
1 smtp.google.com.
Hosting and networkAS16509
A
3.165.39.91 · 3.165.39.10 · 3.165.39.59 · 3.165.39.56
AAAA
2600:9000:26f2:7400:c:3d32:e340:93a1 · 2600:9000:26f2:5000:c:3d32:e340:93a1 · 2600:9000:26f2:ac00:c:3d32:e340:93a1 · 2600:9000:26f2:4c00:c:3d32:e340:93a1 · 4 more
Hosting ASN
AS16509 · 3.165.39.0/24
Hosting organization
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
server-3-165-39-91.nrt12.r.cloudfront.net
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
Amazon RSA 2048 M04
Certificate remaining
84 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:*.merriam-webster.com · DNS:cdn-mw.com · DNS:*.m-w.com · DNS:*.theusage.com · 5 more
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 113
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
0
Well-known public paths3 hits
Present / checked
3 / 5
/.well-known/security.txt
Present · 130 B
/ads.txt
Present · 17.9 KiB
/app-ads.txt
Present · 13.7 KiB
security summary
Contact: mailto:[email protected] · OpenBugBounty: https://openbugbounty.org/bugbounty/DevsMw/ · Preferred-Languages: en-US

Website information

When was merriam-webster.com registered?

Domain
merriam-webster.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2/8/1999
Registrar
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Expires
2/8/2027
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.