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sfgate.com

sfgate.com had about 16.69M visits in September 2026, down 2.67% from August; most traffic is direct.

Client Challenge

Website traffic

How much traffic does sfgate.com get?

16.69M

-2.67%MoMEstimated monthly visits
78921.2M14.14M7.07M0
Global rank

3,874

Country rank · United States

852

Category rank · News and Media

43

Average visit duration

04:16

Pages per visit

2.39

Bounce rate

50.99%

Domain age

33 years

Search share

20.2%

Sources

Where does sfgate.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    54.8%
  • Search
    20.2%
  • Social
    11.1%
  • Referrals
    6.5%
  • Email
    5.5%
  • Display ads
    1.5%
  • Generative AI
    0.2%
  • Paid search
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit sfgate.com?

  • United States
    94.8%
  • Canada
    1.0%
  • United Kingdom
    0.5%
  • Germany
    0.5%
  • Spain
    0.3%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to sfgate.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. 49ers570.16K1.18M48%
  2. weather459.35K18.33M3%
  3. sfgateBRAND109.23K59.38K184%
  4. sf giants90.84K255.42K36%
  5. southwest32.13K1.34M2%

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 sfgate.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
3.0 KiB
Hosting
AMAZON-AES · AS14618
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 89 days
Page and SEO
Title
Client Challenge
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
35
Internal / external links
0 / 0
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 0
Images missing alt
0 / 0
Technology and tracking
Security headers
1 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS
Cookie
6(Secure 5)
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
selector1 · s1 · s2
Mail stack
Microsoft 365
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Adobe · Atlassian · Facebook · Google · Microsoft
SOA
ns1.hearstnp.com
NS
ns3.hearstnp.com. · ns1.hearstnp.com. · ns2.hearstnp.com. · 3 more
MX
10 sfgate-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.
Hosting and networkAS14618
A
34.235.224.231 · 34.198.86.45 · 34.197.233.251 · 34.204.119.243
Hosting ASN
AS14618 · 34.224.0.0/12
Hosting organization
AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
ec2-34-235-224-231.compute-1.amazonaws.com
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
YR2
Certificate remaining
89 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:cars.sfgate.com · DNS:cdn.sfgate.com · DNS:cmf.sfgate.com · DNS:events.sfgate.com · 5 more
robots and AI crawling8 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Discovered
AI explicitly disallowed
8
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Bytespider · CCBot · cohere-ai · PerplexityBot · Applebot-Extended · Diffbot
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 12.1 KiB

Website information

When was sfgate.com registered?

Domain
sfgate.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1994-03-29
Registrar
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Expires
2027-03-30
Domain age
33 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client transfer prohibited · server delete prohibited · server transfer prohibited · server 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.