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politico.com had about 29.17M visits in September 2026, down 1.89% from August; most traffic is direct.

politics, policy, political news - politico

Website traffic

How much traffic does politico.com get?

29.17M

-1.89%MoMEstimated monthly visits
78941.16M27.44M13.72M0
Global rank

1,887

Country rank · United States

499

Category rank · News and Media

30

Average visit duration

06:19

Pages per visit

3.06

Bounce rate

57.99%

Domain age

28 years

Search share

25.7%

Sources

Where does politico.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    61.9%
  • Search
    25.7%
  • Referrals
    5.9%
  • Social
    4.4%
  • Email
    1.8%
  • Generative AI
    0.2%
  • Display ads
    0.1%
  • Paid search
    0.0%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit politico.com?

  • United States
    84.5%
  • Canada
    3.8%
  • United Kingdom
    1.9%
  • Germany
    1.0%
  • Australia
    0.8%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to politico.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. politicoBRAND516.73K312.99K165%
  2. google91.18K39.73M0%
  3. iran70.5K3.05M2%
  4. hasan piker68.81K698.86K10%
  5. newsBRAND55.52K9.02M1%

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 politico.com show publicly?

Partially available
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
Hosting
AMAZON-AES · AS14618
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC quarantine
TLS
TLSv1.2 · 148 days
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · quarantine
MTA-STS / BIMI
BIMI
DKIM selectors
selector2 · k1 · s1 · s2
Mail stack
Microsoft 365
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Apple · Atlassian · Google
SOA
ns-1470.awsdns-55.org
NS
ns-1470.awsdns-55.org. · ns-2040.awsdns-63.co.uk. · ns-493.awsdns-61.com. · 1 more
MX
0 politico-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.
Hosting and networkAS14618
A
184.73.225.116 · 44.212.238.27 · 3.224.37.207
Hosting ASN
AS14618 · 184.73.0.0/16
Hosting organization
AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
ec2-184-73-225-116.compute-1.amazonaws.com
TLS
TLSv1.2 · Verified
Certificate issuer
Amazon RSA 2048 M04
Certificate remaining
148 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:*.politico.com · DNS:politico.com
Well-known public paths2 hits
Present / checked
2 / 2
/.well-known/security.txt
Present · 396 B
/ads.txt
Present · 6.1 KiB
security summary
Contact: mailto:security@example.com · Contact: https://example.com/security/report · Expires: 2027-07-15T23:59:59Z

Website information

When was politico.com registered?

Domain
politico.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1998-09-18
Registrar
Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC
Expires
2027-09-17
Domain age
28 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.