Traffic
61.96K
610,276
162,416
201
00:29
1.55
72.95%
32 years
10.8%
Traffic sources
- Direct73.3%
- Search10.8%
- Referrals10.8%
- Social3.4%
- Generative AI1.4%
- Display ads0.2%
- Email0.0%
- Other0.0%
- Paid search0.0%
Regions
- United States98.8%
- Canada0.9%
- Australia0.1%
- South Korea0.1%
- India0.1%
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Search visibility
Keyword samples
- shapes that can handle the most weight110—
- shapes that can handle the most weight article110—
- reference.comBRAND405080%
- td easyweb—522.33K0%
- screwfix—441.46K0%
Keyword rankings
Keyword rankings
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Global position
#1,576
12
2026-10-31
- Referring IPs
- 20,767
- Referring subnets
- 11,242
- .COM rank
- #843
Site profile
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 3.3 KiB
- Hosting
- FASTLY · AS54113
- Email authentication
- SPF
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 38 days
Page and SEO
- Final URL
- https://www.reference.com/
- Title
- A Farewell to Ask.com | 30 Years of Curiosity
- Cross-origin redirect
- Yes
- Word count
- 109
- Internal / external links
- 1 / 0
- Language
- en
- H1 / H2
- 1 / 1
- Images missing alt
- 0 / 1
Technology and tracking1 technologies
- Technology clues
- Tailwind
- External script hosts
- cdn.tailwindcss.com
- Server
- GitHub.com
- Security headers
- 0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Not found
- DKIM selectors
- Not found
- Mail stack
- Proofpoint
- IPv6
- AAAA present
- Site verification TXT
- Facebook · Google · Microsoft
- SOA
- blue.foundationdns.com
- NS
- blue.foundationdns.net. · blue.foundationdns.org. · blue.foundationdns.com.
- MX
- 0 mxa-0015af01.gslb.pphosted.com. · 0 mxb-0015af01.gslb.pphosted.com.
Hosting and networkAS54113
- A
- 185.199.110.153 · 185.199.109.153 · 185.199.111.153 · 185.199.108.153
- AAAA
- 2606:50c0:8001::153 · 2606:50c0:8002::153 · 2606:50c0:8003::153 · 2606:50c0:8000::153
- Hosting ASN
- AS54113 · 185.199.110.0/24
- Hosting organization
- FASTLY - Fastly, Inc.
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- Reverse DNS
- cdn-185-199-110-153.github.com
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- YR1
- Certificate remaining
- 38 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:reference.com · DNS:www.reference.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 404
- Robots.txt
- 404
Well-known public paths
- Present / checked
- 0 / 5
Website information
- Domain
- reference.com
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 1995-01-25
- Registrar
- MarkMonitor Inc.
- Expires
- 2027-07-27
- Domain age
- 32 years
- DNSSEC
- No
- Registry status
- client delete 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.
Cite or embed
reference.com had about 61.96K visits in September 2026, down 32.35% from August; most traffic is direct. Source: Vaneform estimates, https://vaneform.com/e/reference-com (updated 2026-10-09).
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