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metafilter.com had about 1.51M visits in September 2026, down 2.86% from August; most traffic is direct.

MetaFilter | Community Weblog

Website traffic

How much traffic does metafilter.com get?

1.51M

-2.86%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7891.76M1.17M586.97K0
Global rank

39,008

Country rank · United States

10,739

Category rank · News and Media

464

Average visit duration

04:27

Pages per visit

3.62

Bounce rate

40.07%

Domain age

28 years

Search share

16.9%

Sources

Where does metafilter.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    71.9%
  • Search
    16.9%
  • Referrals
    4.4%
  • Social
    4.0%
  • Email
    2.6%
  • Generative AI
    0.1%
  • Display ads
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit metafilter.com?

  • United States
    78.3%
  • United Kingdom
    3.1%
  • Canada
    2.9%
  • Malaysia
    1.5%
  • Spain
    1.5%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to metafilter.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. metafilterBRAND5.39K3.03K178%
  2. metafilter 9 11BRAND43050086%
  3. enclose horse42072.23K1%
  4. smileys.people.s01e04 recap fanfare330330100%
  5. meta filterBRAND310240129%

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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Site profile

What does metafilter.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
71.8 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC none
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 42 days
Page and SEO
Title
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
Description
MetaFilter is a community weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
3,820
Internal / external links
154 / 102
Language
en
H1 / H2
1 / 64
Images missing alt
0 / 0
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed
Technology and tracking1 technologies
Technology clues
React
External script hosts
dha92jo6cen2v.cloudfront.net · pagead2.googlesyndication.com
Social links
youtube.com · youtube.com · youtube.com · youtube.com · youtube.com · bsky.app · bsky.app · youtube.com · 7 more
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · none
DKIM selectors
Not found
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
SOA
alice.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
alice.ns.cloudflare.com. · tanner.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
104.26.6.211 · 172.67.73.55 · 104.26.7.211
AAAA
2606:4700:20::ac43:4937 · 2606:4700:20::681a:6d3 · 2606:4700:20::681a:7d3
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 104.26.0.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
42 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:metafilter.com · DNS:*.metafilter.com

Website information

When was metafilter.com registered?

Domain
metafilter.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1999-03-18
Registrar
Amazon Registrar, Inc.
Expires
2027-03-18
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.