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observer.co.uk had about 1.76M visits in September 2026, up 15.30% from August; the top source is direct.

News, culture and style | The Observer

Website traffic

How much traffic does observer.co.uk get?

1.76M

+15.30%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7891.9M1.27M633.7K0
Global rank

37,168

Country rank · United Kingdom

1,829

Category rank · News and Media

131

Average visit duration

02:03

Pages per visit

2.05

Bounce rate

60.31%

Domain age

31 years

Search share

34.3%

Sources

Where does observer.co.uk's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    39.5%
  • Search
    34.3%
  • Social
    9.6%
  • Email
    7.5%
  • Referrals
    7.3%
  • Paid search
    1.2%
  • Generative AI
    0.4%
  • Display ads
    0.2%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit observer.co.uk?

  • United Kingdom
    62.4%
  • United States
    10.9%
  • Ireland
    1.8%
  • Germany
    1.5%
  • Australia
    1.4%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to observer.co.uk?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. the sun48.16K427.27K11%
  2. the observerBRAND21.92K18.12K121%
  3. observerBRAND9.89K42.02K24%
  4. esther rantzen5.96K29.99K20%
  5. marco pierre white3.7K80.55K5%

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 observer.co.uk show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
896.1 KiB
Hosting
AMAZON-02 · AS16509
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC quarantine
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 50 days
Page and SEOSchema 4
Title
News, culture and style | The Observer
Description
Independent journalism from The Observer, featuring news, politics, culture, sport, food, comment and analysis, plus puzzles, podcasts and newsletters.
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
1,440
Internal / external links
134 / 12
Canonical
https://observer.co.uk/
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 1
Images missing alt
10 / 61
Schema
ImageObject · NewsMediaOrganization · PostalAddress · WebPage
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking4 tracking
Technology clues
Next.js · Bootstrap · React · Vercel
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Google Ads · Matomo
Social links
instagram.com · x.com · facebook.com · linkedin.com · bsky.app · instagram.com · x.com · instagram.com · 3 more
Server
Vercel
Security headers
1 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · quarantine
DKIM selectors
google
Mail stack
Mimecast
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Atlassian · Google · Microsoft
SOA
ns-867.awsdns-44.net
NS
ns-1041.awsdns-02.org. · ns-1707.awsdns-21.co.uk. · ns-354.awsdns-44.com. · 1 more
MX
10 eu-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com. · 10 eu-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com.
Hosting and networkAS16509
A
216.150.1.1
Hosting ASN
AS16509 · 216.150.1.0/24
Hosting organization
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
YR2
Certificate remaining
50 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:observer.co.uk
robots and AI crawling12 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
URL set · 4,920
AI explicitly disallowed
12
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
GPTBot · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Google-Extended · Bytespider · CCBot · cohere-ai · Amazonbot · 4 more
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 127 B

Website information

When was observer.co.uk registered?

Domain
observer.co.uk
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1995-12-07
Registrar
GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Expires
2026-12-07
Domain age
31 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client transfer prohibited · client update prohibited · client renew prohibited · client delete 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.