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nsf.gov had about 1.95M visits in September 2026, up 16.31% from August; the top source is search.

NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation

Website traffic

How much traffic does nsf.gov get?

1.95M

+16.31%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7892.11M1.41M703.06K0
Global rank

30,483

Country rank · United States

7,424

Category rank · Education

263

Average visit duration

02:46

Pages per visit

2.84

Bounce rate

52.36%

Domain age

29 years

Search share

37.4%

Sources

Where does nsf.gov's traffic come from?

  • Search
    37.4%
  • Direct
    36.2%
  • Referrals
    15.6%
  • Social
    4.3%
  • Email
    4.1%
  • Generative AI
    2.2%
  • Paid search
    0.1%
  • Display ads
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit nsf.gov?

  • United States
    88.0%
  • United Kingdom
    0.7%
  • Canada
    0.7%
  • India
    0.6%
  • South Korea
    0.6%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to nsf.gov?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. nsf grfpBRAND42.88K43.15K99%
  2. nsf award searchBRAND26.7K24.4K109%
  3. nsfBRAND10.71K53.84K20%
  4. nsf future coreBRAND5.49K4.16K132%
  5. chase4.93K3.98M0%

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 nsf.gov show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
  • DNSSEC
HTTP
200
Page size
78.8 KiB
Hosting
NSF-HQ-AS · AS102
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.2 · 102 days
Page and SEO
Title
NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
Description
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
624
Internal / external links
85 / 9
Canonical
https://www.nsf.gov/
Language
en
H1 / H2
1 / 10
Images missing alt
5 / 29
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking1 tracking
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager
External script hosts
dap.digitalgov.gov · script.crazyegg.com · static.addtoany.com · cdn.jsdelivr.net · touchpoints.app.cloud.gov
Social links
facebook.com · x.com · instagram.com · youtube.com · linkedin.com
Generator
Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
Server
Apache
Security headers
3 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS
Cookie
1(Secure 1)
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
selector2 · s1 · s2
IPv6
AAAA present
DNSSEC
DNSKEY · AD
Site verification TXT
Atlassian · Google
SOA
gold.foundationdns.com
NS
gold.foundationdns.com. · gold.foundationdns.net. · gold.foundationdns.org.
MX
10 primary.us.etp.fireeyegov.com. · 20 alt1.us.etp.fireeyegov.com. · 30 alt2.us.etp.fireeyegov.com. · 1 more
Hosting and networkAS102
A
128.150.221.244
AAAA
2620:10f:6002:221::244
Hosting ASN
AS102 · 128.150.0.0/16
Hosting organization
NSF-HQ-AS - U.S. National Science Foundation
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
nsf.gov · www-legacy-f5.nsf.gov
TLS
TLSv1.2 · Verified
Certificate issuer
DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1
Certificate remaining
102 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:www-legacy-f5.nsf.gov · DNS:nsf.gov
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 8
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
16
Well-known public paths
Present / checked
0 / 5

Website information

When was nsf.gov registered?

Domain
nsf.gov
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1997-10-02
Registrar
get.gov
Expires
2027-09-15
Domain age
29 years
DNSSEC
Yes
Registry status
server 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.