Website traffic
How much traffic does sowetan.co.za get?
790.07K
+13.32%MoMEstimated monthly visits
982.64K655.09K327.55K0
Global rank
80,273
Country rank · South Africa
804
Category rank · News and Media
35
Average visit duration
00:41
Pages per visit
1.76
Bounce rate
70.42%
Search share
28.5%
Sources
Where does sowetan.co.za's traffic come from?
- Direct61.1%
- Search28.5%
- Social5.0%
- Referrals2.6%
- Email1.2%
- Generative AI1.0%
- Display ads0.6%
- Other0.0%
- Paid search0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit sowetan.co.za?
- South Africa84.7%
- United States2.3%
- United Kingdom1.3%
- India1.1%
- Brazil0.8%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to sowetan.co.za?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- sowetanliveBRAND5.67K1.96K289%
- www.sowetan.co.za todayBRAND3.06K1.8K170%
- sowetan newsBRAND2.67K1.04K257%
- sowetanBRAND2.64K1.31K202%
- cartoon2.31K123.94K2%
Keyword rankings
Keyword rankings
86.4M
Search estimate
New 1 · Up 2
- Ranking keywords
- 12,400
- Landing pages
- 4
- Search competitors
- 4
- AI citations
- 2
PositionEstimated visits
- google#142M
- gmail#118.2M
- google maps#19.4M
- google drive#14.1M
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What does sowetan.co.za show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 282.1 KiB
- Hosting
- AMAZON-02 · AS16509
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC none
- TLS
- TLSv1.2 · 168 days
Page and SEOSchema 1
- Final URL
- https://www.sowetan.co.za/
- Title
- Sowetan - Your news, sport and entertainment on the move
- Description
- Your news, sport and entertainment. In the know, on the move.
- Cross-origin redirect
- Yes
- Word count
- 848
- Internal / external links
- 89 / 14
- Canonical
- https://www.sowetan.co.za/
- Language
- en
- H1 / H2
- 0 / 26
- Images missing alt
- 30 / 43
- Schema
- Organization
- OG / Twitter
- OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking2 tracking
- Technology clues
- React
- Tracking clues
- Google Tag Manager · Google Ads
- External script hosts
- securepubads.g.doubleclick.net · static.chartbeat.com · applets.ebxcdn.com · maps.googleapis.com · arenaholdings-sowetan-prod.web.arc-cdn.net · queryly.com · cdn.viously.com
- Social links
- facebook.com · twitter.com · youtube.com · instagram.com
- Server
- openresty
- Security headers
- 1 / 6
- HSTS / CSP
- CSP
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · none
- DKIM selectors
- Not found
- Mail stack
- Mimecast
- IPv6
- No AAAA
- Site verification TXT
- Google · Microsoft
- SOA
- ns1.lexsynergy.net
- NS
- ns3.lexsynergy.info. · ns1.lexsynergy.net. · ns2.lexsynergy.us.
- MX
- 10 za-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.co.za. · 10 za-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.co.za.
Hosting and networkAS16509
- A
- 15.197.81.49 · 166.117.75.246
- Hosting ASN
- AS16509 · 15.197.80.0/20
- Hosting organization
- AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc.
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- Reverse DNS
- a62ecf80c544c90b2.awsglobalaccelerator.com
- TLS
- TLSv1.2 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- Amazon RSA 2048 M04
- Certificate remaining
- 168 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:sowetan.co.za
robots and AI crawling13 disallowed
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- Sitemap
- URL set · 27
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 13
- AI explicitly allowed
- 2
- Disallow examples
- GPTBot · ChatGPT-User · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Bytespider · CCBot · cohere-ai · PerplexityBot · 5 more
Well-known public paths1 hits
- Present / checked
- 1 / 5
- /ads.txt
- Present · 38.5 KiB
Website information
- Domain
- sowetan.co.za
- Registration status
- Registration status unconfirmed
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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.