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thedefensepost.com had about 468.42K visits in September 2026, up 13.30% from August; most traffic is direct.

The Defense Post • Global defense news, analysis and opinion

Website traffic

How much traffic does thedefensepost.com get?

468.42K

+13.30%MoMEstimated monthly visits
789505.89K337.26K168.63K0
Global rank

124,182

Country rank · United States

68,443

Category rank · National Security

123

Average visit duration

00:40

Pages per visit

1.62

Bounce rate

56.73%

Domain age

9 years

Search share

32.5%

Sources

Where does thedefensepost.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    53.6%
  • Search
    32.5%
  • Referrals
    8.3%
  • Social
    3.2%
  • Email
    1.3%
  • Generative AI
    1.0%
  • Display ads
    0.1%
  • Other
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit thedefensepost.com?

  • United States
    35.5%
  • Singapore
    8.0%
  • United Kingdom
    6.0%
  • China
    4.5%
  • Taiwan
    3.5%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to thedefensepost.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. defense postBRAND1.29K1.25K103%
  2. defence post65084077%
  3. the defense postBRAND6401.01K63%
  4. shahed drones36014.25K3%
  5. thedefensepostBRAND330290114%

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 thedefensepost.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
192.4 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC none
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 37 days
Page and SEOSchema 10
Title
The Defense Post • Global defense news, analysis and opinion
Description
Defense news from around the globe – breaking news, in-depth coverage, analysis and commentary on national defense and international security
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
1,421
Internal / external links
116 / 6
Canonical
https://thedefensepost.com/
Language
en-US
H1 / H2
1 / 71
Images missing alt
18 / 85
Schema
BreadcrumbList · EntryPoint · ImageObject · ListItem · Organization · PropertyValueSpecification · 4 more
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
OG locale
en_US
Technology and tracking3 tracking
Technology clues
WordPress · Cloudflare · jQuery
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Cloudflare Web Analytics
External script hosts
googletagmanager.com · platform.twitter.com · static.cloudflareinsights.com
Social links
facebook.com · twitter.com · x.com · x.com
Server
cloudflare
Security headers
5 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · none
DKIM selectors
Not found
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
SOA
jaziel.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
jaziel.ns.cloudflare.com. · teagan.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com. · 2 more
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
104.26.14.117 · 172.67.73.247 · 104.26.15.117
AAAA
2606:4700:20::681a:f75 · 2606:4700:20::681a:e75 · 2606:4700:20::ac43:49f7
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 104.26.0.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
37 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:thedefensepost.com · DNS:*.thedefensepost.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 38
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
16
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 58 B

Website information

When was thedefensepost.com registered?

Domain
thedefensepost.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2017-09-23
Registrar
GoDaddy.com, LLC
Expires
2027-09-23
Domain age
9 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.