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news.ycombinator.com had about 37.47M visits in August 2026, up 164.72% from July; most traffic is direct.

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Traffic

37.47M

+164.72%MoMEstimated monthly visits
67840.47M26.98M13.49M0
Global rank

1,749

Country rank · United States

1,525

Category rank · Computers Electronics and Technology

51

Average visit duration

02:57

Pages per visit

2.33

Bounce rate

66.97%

Domain age

22 years

Search share

11.0%

Traffic sources

  • Direct
    84.9%
  • Search
    11.0%
  • Referrals
    1.8%
  • Social
    1.1%
  • Email
    0.5%
  • Generative AI
    0.4%
  • Display ads
    0.3%
  • Other
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%

Regions

  • United States
    17.6%
  • Germany
    12.2%
  • United Kingdom
    7.8%
  • France
    6.8%
  • China
    5.0%

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Search visibility

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. hacker newsBRAND336.14K248.71K135%
  2. hackernewsBRAND166.29K143.17K116%
  3. hnBRAND30.97K72.12K43%
  4. r nba23.12K73.44K32%
  5. c17.38K4.55M0%

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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Backlink rank

Global position

#858

1

2026-08-31

Referring IPs
36,535
Referring subnets
16,876
.COM rank
#479

Baidu rank

Website information

Domain
ycombinator.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2005-03-20
Registrar
Gandi SAS
Expires
2027-03-20
Domain age
22 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.
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news.ycombinator.com had about 37.47M visits in August 2026, up 164.72% from July; most traffic is direct. Source: Vaneform estimates, https://vaneform.com/e/news-ycombinator-com (updated 2026-10-04).

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