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rawstory.com had about 13.98M visits in September 2026, down 0.29% from August; most traffic is direct.

Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism

Website traffic

How much traffic does rawstory.com get?

13.98M

-0.29%MoMEstimated monthly visits
78916.37M10.91M5.46M0
Global rank

3,528

Country rank · United States

849

Category rank · News and Media

42

Average visit duration

11:05

Pages per visit

6.05

Bounce rate

42.49%

Domain age

23 years

Search share

6.0%

Sources

Where does rawstory.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    56.5%
  • Social
    15.4%
  • Referrals
    11.0%
  • Email
    7.5%
  • Search
    6.0%
  • Display ads
    3.5%
  • Paid search
    0.1%
  • Generative AI
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit rawstory.com?

  • United States
    82.0%
  • Canada
    10.4%
  • United Kingdom
    2.6%
  • Australia
    1.5%
  • Mexico
    1.0%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to rawstory.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. raw storyBRAND286.47K82.18K349%
  2. the raw storyBRAND26.47K7.83K338%
  3. rawstoryBRAND17.3K7.54K229%
  4. raw story newsBRAND3.92K900436%
  5. taw storyBRAND2.14K330649%

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 rawstory.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
482.2 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC quarantine
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 51 days
Page and SEOSchema 4
Title
Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism
Description
Breaking news, political news, and investigative news reporting from Raw Story's team of journalists and prize-winning investigators.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
1,051
Internal / external links
67 / 1
Canonical
https://www.rawstory.com/
Language
en
H1 / H2
12 / 60
Images missing alt
2 / 7
Schema
ImageObject · Organization · SearchAction · WebSite
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed · Manifest
Technology and tracking5 tracking
Technology clues
Bootstrap · React · PayPal · Zendesk · Sentry · Bot protection
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Google Ads · Meta Pixel · Microsoft Clarity
External script hosts
tagan.adlightning.com · launchpad-wrapper.privacymanager.io · static.chartbeat.com
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · quarantine
DKIM selectors
Not found
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
Site verification TXT
Atlassian · Google · Microsoft
SOA
elma.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
elma.ns.cloudflare.com. · kurt.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com. · 5 more
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
104.26.9.35 · 172.67.72.107 · 104.26.8.35
AAAA
2606:4700:20::ac43:486b · 2606:4700:20::681a:923 · 2606:4700:20::681a:823
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 104.26.0.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
51 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:rawstory.com · DNS:*.rawstory.com
robots and AI crawling4 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 1,499
AI explicitly disallowed
4
AI explicitly allowed
12
Disallow examples
GPTBot · Google-Extended · CCBot · PerplexityBot
Well-known public paths3 hits
Present / checked
3 / 5
/llms.txt
Present · 12.5 KiB
/app-ads.txt
Present · 113 B
/ads.txt
Present · 3.8 KiB
llms summary
> Raw Story: navigation index for LLMs - 67 sections, each with a markdown version. Complete content: https://www.rawstory.com/llms-full.txt · Site ID: 20266338 · Markdown version:

Website information

When was rawstory.com registered?

Domain
rawstory.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2004-01-29
Registrar
GoDaddy.com, LLC
Expires
2031-01-29
Domain age
23 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client delete prohibited · client renew prohibited · client transfer prohibited · client update 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.