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theintercept.com had about 1.21M visits in September 2026, up 20.62% from August; the top source is direct.

The Intercept

Website traffic

How much traffic does theintercept.com get?

1.21M

+20.62%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7891.32M882.98K441.49K0
Global rank

56,719

Country rank · United States

16,510

Category rank · News and Media

662

Average visit duration

00:59

Pages per visit

1.57

Bounce rate

63.31%

Domain age

17 years

Search share

21.5%

Sources

Where does theintercept.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    38.0%
  • Search
    21.5%
  • Social
    19.5%
  • Email
    12.6%
  • Referrals
    7.6%
  • Display ads
    0.4%
  • Generative AI
    0.2%
  • Paid search
    0.2%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit theintercept.com?

  • United States
    77.5%
  • Canada
    4.3%
  • United Kingdom
    2.1%
  • Germany
    1.6%
  • Australia
    1.6%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to theintercept.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. flights30.86K3.4M1%
  2. the interceptBRAND8.3K11.38K73%
  3. israel4.3K1.11M0%
  4. interceptBRAND3.44K23.93K14%
  5. robert kraft3.17K764.09K0%

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 theintercept.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
  • DNSSEC
HTTP
200
Page size
143.6 KiB
Hosting
AUTOMATTIC · AS2635
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC none
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 47 days
Page and SEOSchema 9
Title
The Intercept
Description
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Cross-origin redirect
No
Word count
862
Internal / external links
68 / 8
Canonical
https://theintercept.com/
Language
en-US
H1 / H2
1 / 14
Images missing alt
11 / 36
Schema
BreadcrumbList · EntryPoint · ListItem · PropertyValueSpecification · ReadAction · SearchAction · 3 more
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
OG locale
en_US
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed
Technology and tracking2 tracking
Technology clues
WordPress
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics
External script hosts
cdn.parsely.com · stats.wp.com
Social links
facebook.com · twitter.com · youtube.com · instagram.com · tiktok.com · linkedin.com
Generator
Site Kit by Google 1.187.0
Server
nginx
Security headers
5 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · none
DKIM selectors
google · k1
Mail stack
Proton Mail
IPv6
No AAAA
DNSSEC
DNSKEY · AD
Site verification TXT
Apple · Facebook · Google
SOA
dora.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
dora.ns.cloudflare.com. · lamar.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
10 mail.protonmail.ch. · 20 mailsec.protonmail.ch.
Hosting and networkAS2635
A
192.0.66.199
Hosting ASN
AS2635 · 192.0.66.0/24
Hosting organization
AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
YE1
Certificate remaining
47 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:theintercept.com · DNS:www.theintercept.com
robots and AI crawling7 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 32
AI explicitly disallowed
7
AI explicitly allowed
9
Disallow examples
GPTBot · ChatGPT-User · anthropic-ai · Google-Extended · CCBot · PerplexityBot · Amazonbot
Well-known public paths
Present / checked
0 / 5

Website information

When was theintercept.com registered?

Domain
theintercept.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2009-10-01
Registrar
Gandi SAS
Expires
2027-10-01
Domain age
17 years
DNSSEC
Yes
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.