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popmatters.com had about 309.78K visits in September 2026, down 13.84% from August; most traffic is search.

PopMatters | Essaying the Pop Culture That Matters Since 1999 » PopMatters

Website traffic

How much traffic does popmatters.com get?

309.78K

-13.84%MoMEstimated monthly visits
789388.29K258.86K129.43K0
Global rank

178,264

Country rank · United States

106,280

Category rank · Arts and Entertainment

748

Average visit duration

00:32

Pages per visit

1.51

Bounce rate

51.54%

Domain age

28 years

Search share

63.6%

Sources

Where does popmatters.com's traffic come from?

  • Search
    63.6%
  • Direct
    22.1%
  • Referrals
    9.7%
  • Social
    3.6%
  • Email
    0.6%
  • Generative AI
    0.3%
  • Paid search
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit popmatters.com?

  • United States
    40.7%
  • United Kingdom
    6.5%
  • Canada
    5.3%
  • Australia
    2.0%
  • Brazil
    1.9%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to popmatters.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. popmattersBRAND1.2K660182%
  2. inglourious basterds840166.91K1%
  3. drag me to hell48030.31K2%
  4. akira kurosawa440170.13K0%
  5. michelle branch42035.87K1%

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 popmatters.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
573.0 KiB
Hosting
INMOTION · AS22611
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC none
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 68 days
Page and SEOSchema 8
Title
PopMatters | Essaying the Pop Culture That Matters Since 1999 » PopMatters
Description
America’s track and field team won the 2022 olympics?Read More Last Weak Trending Post
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
1,228
Internal / external links
119 / 9
Canonical
https://www.popmatters.com/
Language
en-US
H1 / H2
0 / 13
Images missing alt
0 / 52
Schema
Article · ImageObject · NewsMediaOrganization · Organization · Person · SearchAction · 2 more
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
OG locale
en_US
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed
Technology and tracking2 tracking
Technology clues
WordPress · Bootstrap · jQuery · React · Angular · PayPal · HubSpot · Hotjar
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics
External script hosts
ads.blogherads.com · googletagmanager.com
Social links
x.com · bsky.app · facebook.com · instagram.com · facebook.com · twitter.com · instagram.com
Server
BunnyCDN-JP1-1171
Security headers
1 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · none
DKIM selectors
Not found
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
kiki.bunny.net
NS
kiki.bunny.net. · coco.bunny.net.
MX
10 mx1.titan.email. · 20 mx2.titan.email.
Hosting and networkAS22611
A
216.194.165.148
Hosting ASN
AS22611 · 216.194.164.0/22
Hosting organization
INMOTION - InMotion Hosting, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
cc7349.inmotionhosting.com
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
YR1
Certificate remaining
68 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:popmatters.com · DNS:www.popmatters.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
URL set · 200
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
16
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 22.3 KiB

Website information

When was popmatters.com registered?

Domain
popmatters.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1999-02-12
Registrar
Network Solutions, LLC
Expires
2027-02-12
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.