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smashwords.com had about 608.59K visits in September 2026, down 12.26% from August; most traffic is direct.

Smashwords – Home

Traffic

608.59K

-12.26%MoMEstimated monthly visits
789907.23K604.82K302.41K0
Global rank

56,760

Country rank · United States

18,823

Category rank · Books and Literature

82

Average visit duration

03:29

Pages per visit

7.07

Bounce rate

41.59%

Domain age

21 years

Search share

23.8%

Traffic sources

  • Direct
    56.6%
  • Search
    23.8%
  • Referrals
    9.2%
  • Social
    6.3%
  • Email
    2.4%
  • Display ads
    1.1%
  • Generative AI
    0.3%
  • Other
    0.2%
  • Paid search
    0.1%

Regions

  • United States
    60.4%
  • United Kingdom
    6.6%
  • Germany
    4.0%
  • India
    4.0%
  • Canada
    3.9%

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Search visibility

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. BRAND17.11K9.61K178%
  2. 510—
  3. 4302.42K18%
  4. 41070059%

Keyword rankings

Keyword rankings

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Backlink rank

Global position

#4,591

25

2026-10-31

Referring IPs
11,232
Referring subnets
5,603
.COM rank
#2,253

Baidu rank

Site profile

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
52.7 KiB
Hosting
RACKSPACE · AS19994
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC none
TLS
TLSv1.2 · 0 days
Page and SEO
Title
Smashwords – Home
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
289
Internal / external links
14 / 0
Canonical
https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/home/1
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 1
Images missing alt
0 / 1
Technology and tracking1 tracking
Technology clues
Cloudflare · React · Angular
Tracking clues
Cloudflare Web Analytics
External script hosts
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · none
DKIM selectors
google
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
sandy.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
sandy.ns.cloudflare.com. · zod.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com. · 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com. · 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com. · 4 more
Hosting and networkAS19994
A
23.253.20.116
Hosting ASN
AS19994 · 23.253.0.0/18
Hosting organization
RACKSPACE - Rackspace Hosting, US
Hosting country
US
TLS
TLSv1.2 · Verified
Certificate issuer
Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36
Certificate remaining
0 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:www.smashwords.com · DNS:smashwords.com
robots and AI crawling15 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
AI explicitly disallowed
15
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
GPTBot · ChatGPT-User · OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Google-Extended · GoogleOther · Bytespider · 7 more
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 58 B

Website information

Domain
smashwords.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2005-08-05
Registrar
GoDaddy.com, LLC
Expires
2027-08-05
Domain age
21 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.
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smashwords.com had about 608.59K visits in September 2026, down 12.26% from August; most traffic is direct. Source: Vaneform estimates, https://vaneform.com/e/smashwords-com (updated 2026-10-08).

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