Website traffic
How much traffic does plos.org get?
3.94M
+18.31%MoMEstimated monthly visits
4.25M2.83M1.42M0
Global rank
19,240
Country rank · United States
12,404
Category rank · Libraries and Museums
39
Average visit duration
01:43
Pages per visit
1.73
Bounce rate
61.30%
Domain age
26 years
Search share
33.9%
Sources
Where does plos.org's traffic come from?
- Direct42.8%
- Search33.9%
- Referrals12.8%
- Generative AI5.8%
- Social3.3%
- Email1.1%
- Display ads0.2%
- Paid search0.1%
- Other0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit plos.org?
- United States29.1%
- United Kingdom4.7%
- Australia4.6%
- Canada3.8%
- Germany3.3%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to plos.org?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- plos oneBRAND38.99K30.53K128%
- plosBRAND4.44K6.15K72%
- plosoneBRAND2.57K2.82K91%
- plos biologyBRAND2.26K3.52K64%
- plos one impact factorBRAND2.22K11.7K19%
Keyword rankings
Keyword rankings
86.4M
Search estimate
New 1 · Up 2
- Ranking keywords
- 12,400
- Landing pages
- 4
- Search competitors
- 4
- AI citations
- 2
PositionEstimated visits
- google#142M
- gmail#118.2M
- google maps#19.4M
- google drive#14.1M
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What does plos.org show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 249.3 KiB
- Hosting
- CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC reject
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 56 days
Page and SEOSchema 10
- Final URL
- https://plos.org/
- Title
- Leading the future of open science publishing - PLOS
- Description
- Discover how we are transforming scholarly publishing with a mission-driven commitment to open science, research integrity, and innovation that benefits researchers, institutions, and society worldwide.
- Cross-origin redirect
- No
- Word count
- 680
- Internal / external links
- 68 / 3
- Canonical
- https://plos.org/
- Language
- en-US
- H1 / H2
- 1 / 2
- Images missing alt
- 0 / 2
- Schema
- BreadcrumbList · EntryPoint · ImageObject · ListItem · Organization · PropertyValueSpecification · 4 more
- OG / Twitter
- OG · Twitter
- OG locale
- en_US
- Feed / Manifest / AMP
- Feed · Manifest
Technology and tracking2 tracking
- Technology clues
- WordPress · jQuery · React · HubSpot · Cloudflare
- Tracking clues
- Google Analytics · Twitter/X Pixel
- External script hosts
- js.hsforms.net · js.hs-scripts.com
- Social links
- bsky.app · facebook.com · linkedin.com
- Generator
- WordPress 7.1.3
- Server
- cloudflare
- Security headers
- 1 / 6
- Cookie
- 1（Secure 1）
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · reject
- DKIM selectors
- selector1 · s1 · s2
- Mail stack
- Microsoft 365
- IPv6
- AAAA present
- Site verification TXT
- Atlassian · Google · Microsoft
- SOA
- chad.ns.cloudflare.com
- NS
- chad.ns.cloudflare.com. · paloma.ns.cloudflare.com.
- MX
- 0 plos-org.mail.protection.outlook.com.
Hosting and networkAS13335
- A
- 172.67.71.157 · 104.26.9.182 · 104.26.8.182
- AAAA
- 2606:4700:20::681a:8b6 · 2606:4700:20::ac43:479d · 2606:4700:20::681a:9b6
- Hosting ASN
- AS13335 · 172.67.64.0/20
- Hosting organization
- CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- WE1
- Certificate remaining
- 56 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:plos.org · DNS:*.plos.org
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- Sitemap
- Index · 17
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 0
- AI explicitly allowed
- 16
Well-known public paths
- Present / checked
- 0 / 5
Website information
When was plos.org registered?
- Domain
- plos.org
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 2000-10-02
- Registrar
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- Expires
- 2027-10-02
- Domain age
- 26 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.