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software.ac.uk had about 19.65K visits in September 2026, down 10.33% from August; the top source is search.

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Traffic

19.65K

-10.33%MoMEstimated monthly visits
78923.67K15.78K7.89K0
Global rank

1,433,221

Country rank · United States

879,952

Category rank · Programming and Developer Software

13,014

Average visit duration

01:02

Pages per visit

1.62

Bounce rate

45.82%

Search share

37.3%

Traffic sources

  • Search
    37.3%
  • Direct
    33.1%
  • Referrals
    9.9%
  • Social
    5.8%
  • Email
    4.0%
  • Display ads
    4.0%
  • Other
    2.4%
  • Generative AI
    2.2%
  • Paid search
    1.3%

Regions

  • United States
    21.3%
  • United Kingdom
    19.1%
  • India
    12.5%
  • Germany
    11.4%
  • Nigeria
    10.1%

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Search visibility

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. 27043.46K1%
  2. 150113.78K0%
  3. BRAND120120100%
  4. BRAND9018050%
  5. BRAND801.01K8%

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Keyword rankings

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Backlink rank

Global position

#167,133

3,454

2026-10-31

Referring IPs
828
Referring subnets
713
.AC.UK rank
#12,134

Baidu rank

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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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software.ac.uk had about 19.65K visits in September 2026, down 10.33% from August; the top source is search. Source: Vaneform estimates, https://vaneform.com/e/software-ac-uk (updated 2026-09-01).

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