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mg.co.za had about 1.14M visits in September 2026, down 5.61% from August; most traffic is search.

The Mail & Guardian | Africa's Better Future

Website traffic

How much traffic does mg.co.za get?

1.14M

-5.61%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7891.7M1.13M566.62K0
Global rank

55,101

Country rank · South Africa

613

Category rank · News and Media

29

Average visit duration

00:44

Pages per visit

1.96

Bounce rate

32.53%

Search share

54.3%

Sources

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

  • Search
    54.3%
  • Direct
    29.2%
  • Referrals
    5.5%
  • Social
    5.2%
  • Email
    4.1%
  • Generative AI
    1.6%
  • Display ads
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit mg.co.za?

  • South Africa
    68.5%
  • United States
    7.3%
  • Uganda
    2.9%
  • United Kingdom
    1.5%
  • Germany
    1.3%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to mg.co.za?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. porn18.58K8.06M0%
  2. south africa14.64K289.97K5%
  3. mail and guardian3.54K1.59K223%
  4. kempton park serial killer2.32K16.26K14%
  5. nsfas1.22K51.22K2%

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 mg.co.za show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
870.5 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC none
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 87 days
Page and SEOSchema 5
Title
The Mail & Guardian | Africa's Better Future
Description
The Mail & Guardian is a quality investigative and comment news publication, based on a culture of editorial independence and excellence.
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
1,937
Internal / external links
74 / 9
Canonical
https://mg.co.za/
Language
en-ZA
H1 / H2
0 / 4
Images missing alt
19 / 52
Schema
BreadcrumbList · ImageObject · ListItem · NewsArticle · Organization
Hreflang
en-ZA
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
OG locale
en_ZA
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed · Manifest
Technology and tracking3 tracking
Technology clues
Next.js · Cloudflare · React · Angular
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Cloudflare Web Analytics
External script hosts
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Social links
facebook.com · instagram.com · linkedin.com · threads.net · tiktok.com · twitter.com · youtube.com
Generator
NewsTeam
Server
cloudflare
Security headers
0 / 6
Alt-Svc
Set
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · none
DKIM selectors
google · k1 · s1 · s2
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
matt.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
matt.ns.cloudflare.com. · zara.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com. · 2 more
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
104.20.23.238 · 172.66.149.92
AAAA
2606:4700:10::6814:17ee · 2606:4700:10::ac42:955c
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 104.20.16.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
87 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:mg.co.za · DNS:*.mg.co.za
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 26
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
16
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 15.5 KiB

Website information

Domain
mg.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.