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substack.com

substack.com had about 172.21M visits in September 2026, down 2.13% from August; most traffic is direct.

Substack

Website traffic

How much traffic does substack.com get?

172.21M

-2.13%MoMEstimated monthly visits
56789190.02M126.68M63.34M0
Global rank

209

Country rank · United States

110

Category rank · News and Media

7

Average visit duration

04:10

Pages per visit

4.04

Bounce rate

47.20%

Domain age

16 years

Search share

18.0%

Sources

Where does substack.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    50.3%
  • Search
    18.0%
  • Social
    13.0%
  • Email
    10.8%
  • Referrals
    6.0%
  • Display ads
    0.7%
  • Paid search
    0.7%
  • Generative AI
    0.5%
  • Other
    0.1%

Regions

Which countries visit substack.com?

  • United States
    56.2%
  • United Kingdom
    7.8%
  • India
    4.0%
  • Canada
    3.8%
  • Australia
    2.7%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to substack.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. substackBRAND2.61M1.9M137%
  2. onlyfans83.2K1.38M6%
  3. heather cox richardson75.47K62.42K121%
  4. sub stackBRAND73.92K65.33K113%
  5. chatgpt51.7K185.07M0%

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 substack.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
238.0 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 70 days
Page and SEO
Title
Substack
Description
The app for independent voices
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
290
Internal / external links
16 / 4
Canonical
https://substack.com/
Language
zh-hans
H1 / H2
0 / 0
Images missing alt
5 / 12
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Manifest
Technology and tracking1 tracking
Technology clues
Cloudflare · React · Zendesk · Express
Tracking clues
Cloudflare Web Analytics
External script hosts
substackcdn.com · static.cloudflareinsights.com
Server
cloudflare
Security headers
2 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS · CSP
Alt-Svc
Set
Cookie
9(Secure 6)
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
google
IPv6
AAAA present
Site verification TXT
Facebook · Google
SOA
ali.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
ali.ns.cloudflare.com. · lee.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
10 mxa.mailgun.org. · 10 mxb.mailgun.org.
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
172.64.150.56 · 104.18.37.200
AAAA
2606:4700:4404::6812:25c8 · 2606:4700:4401::ac40:9638
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 172.64.150.0/24
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
70 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:substack.com · DNS:*.substack.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 51
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
0
Well-known public paths
Present / checked
0 / 5

Website information

When was substack.com registered?

Domain
substack.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2010-04-27
Registrar
Amazon Registrar, Inc.
Expires
2030-04-27
Domain age
16 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client transfer 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.