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simonwillison.net had about 1.28M visits in September 2026, up 16.55% from August; the top source is direct.

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Website traffic

How much traffic does simonwillison.net get?

1.28M

+16.55%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7891.41M937.66K468.83K0
Global rank

51,877

Country rank · United States

42,325

Category rank · Computers Electronics and Technology

963

Average visit duration

01:47

Pages per visit

1.99

Bounce rate

52.94%

Domain age

22 years

Search share

18.7%

Sources

Where does simonwillison.net's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    41.4%
  • Social
    27.7%
  • Search
    18.7%
  • Referrals
    7.9%
  • Generative AI
    2.2%
  • Email
    1.7%
  • Display ads
    0.3%
  • Paid search
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit simonwillison.net?

  • United States
    36.0%
  • United Kingdom
    5.6%
  • India
    4.6%
  • China
    4.3%
  • Germany
    4.0%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to simonwillison.net?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. chatgpt66.22K185.07M0%
  2. simon willisonBRAND8.8K10.92K81%
  3. meat proxy4.2K42.73K10%
  4. qwen 3.8 27b1.86K110.46K2%
  5. fable 5.11.83K608.64K0%

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 simonwillison.net show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
90.6 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
DMARC none
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 85 days
Page and SEO
Title
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
4,736
Internal / external links
190 / 99
Canonical
https://simonwillison.net/
Language
en-gb
H1 / H2
1 / 2
Images missing alt
3 / 36
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed
Technology and tracking2 tracking
Technology clues
Cloudflare · Bot protection
Tracking clues
Plausible · Cloudflare Web Analytics
External script hosts
plausible.io · static.cloudflareinsights.com
Social links
youtube.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · 12 more
Server
cloudflare
Security headers
2 / 6
Alt-Svc
Set
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Not found
DMARC
Set · none
DKIM selectors
Not found
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
nash.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
nash.ns.cloudflare.com. · zita.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 aspmx2.googlemail.com. · 10 aspmx3.googlemail.com. · 4 more
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
172.67.136.172 · 104.21.56.206
AAAA
2606:4700:3036::ac43:88ac · 2606:4700:3035::6815:38ce
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 172.67.128.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
85 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:simonwillison.net · DNS:agent-uploads.simonwillison.net · DNS:*.agent-uploads.simonwillison.net
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
URL set · 13,902
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
1
Well-known public paths
Present / checked
0 / 5

Website information

When was simonwillison.net registered?

Domain
simonwillison.net
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2005-03-09
Registrar
123-Reg Limited
Expires
2028-03-09
Domain age
22 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
active

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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.