Website traffic
How much traffic does thenational.scot get?
2.05M
+0.66%MoMEstimated monthly visits
2.21M1.48M738.09K0
Global rank
35,274
Country rank · United Kingdom
1,366
Category rank · News and Media
110
Average visit duration
01:32
Pages per visit
1.77
Bounce rate
64.88%
Domain age
12 years
Search share
33.1%
Sources
Where does thenational.scot's traffic come from?
- Direct43.0%
- Search33.1%
- Social19.9%
- Referrals1.8%
- Email1.5%
- Display ads0.5%
- Generative AI0.1%
- Paid search0.1%
- Other0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit thenational.scot?
- United Kingdom82.1%
- United States7.4%
- France1.5%
- Canada0.9%
- Spain0.9%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to thenational.scot?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- weather156.24K18.33M1%
- the nationalBRAND5.44K24.46K22%
- just eat2.86K689.73K0%
- met office2.08K257.76K1%
- national newspapers scotlandBRAND1.81K970187%
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 thenational.scot show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 404.6 KiB
- Hosting
- MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK · AS8075
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC quarantine
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 167 days
Page and SEOSchema 4
- Final URL
- https://www.thenational.scot/
- Title
- Scotland's News & Independence Debate - The National
- Description
- Scottish news, politics, opinion and culture from Scotland's only pro-independence newspaper. The National - trusted Scottish journalism.
- Cross-origin redirect
- Yes
- Word count
- 1,053
- Internal / external links
- 149 / 11
- Canonical
- https://www.thenational.scot/
- Language
- en
- H1 / H2
- 1 / 50
- Images missing alt
- 21 / 96
- Schema
- ContactPoint · Organization · PostalAddress · WebPage
Technology and tracking2 tracking
- Technology clues
- jQuery
- Tracking clues
- Google Ads · Meta Pixel
- External script hosts
- experiments.parsely.com · ajax.googleapis.com · code.jquery.com · assets.adobedtm.com · a02342.thenational.scot · pagead2.googlesyndication.com · code.iconify.design
- Social links
- facebook.com · twitter.com · instagram.com
- Security headers
- 6 / 6
- HSTS / CSP
- HSTS · CSP
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · quarantine
- DKIM selectors
- selector1 · selector2
- Mail stack
- Microsoft 365
- IPv6
- No AAAA
- Site verification TXT
- Facebook · Google · Microsoft
- SOA
- ns1-09.azure-dns.com
- NS
- ns1-09.azure-dns.com. · ns2-09.azure-dns.net. · ns3-09.azure-dns.org. · 1 more
- MX
- 0 newsquest-co-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com.
Hosting and networkAS8075
- A
- 20.90.133.1
- Hosting ASN
- AS8075 · 20.64.0.0/10
- Hosting organization
- MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1
- Certificate remaining
- 167 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:thenational.scot
robots and AI crawling13 disallowed
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- Sitemap
- URL set · 51
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 13
- AI explicitly allowed
- 0
- Disallow examples
- GPTBot · ChatGPT-User · OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Bytespider · CCBot · cohere-ai · 5 more
Well-known public paths2 hits
- Present / checked
- 2 / 5
- /app-ads.txt
- Present · 112 B
- /ads.txt
- Present · 64.0 KiB
Website information
When was thenational.scot registered?
- Domain
- thenational.scot
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 2014-11-07
- Registrar
- Tucows Domains Inc.
- Expires
- 2026-11-07
- Domain age
- 12 years
- DNSSEC
- No
- Registry status
- 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.