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theroot.com had about 651.94K visits in September 2026, down 10.86% from August; the top source is search.

The Root – Black News, Opinions, Politics and Culture

Website traffic

How much traffic does theroot.com get?

651.94K

-10.86%MoMEstimated monthly visits
789811.06K540.71K270.35K0
Global rank

70,060

Country rank · United States

17,367

Category rank · News and Media

691

Average visit duration

01:26

Pages per visit

3.60

Bounce rate

47.45%

Domain age

27 years

Search share

40.8%

Sources

Where does theroot.com's traffic come from?

  • Search
    40.8%
  • Direct
    39.2%
  • Email
    7.3%
  • Referrals
    7.0%
  • Social
    4.1%
  • Display ads
    0.7%
  • Generative AI
    0.6%
  • Paid search
    0.2%
  • Other
    0.1%

Regions

Which countries visit theroot.com?

  • United States
    79.6%
  • Canada
    2.1%
  • United Kingdom
    1.6%
  • Australia
    1.2%
  • Germany
    0.9%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to theroot.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. the rootBRAND13.23K10.36K128%
  2. lil durk9.52K738.61K1%
  3. therootBRAND2.14K1.27K169%
  4. desronvil1.74K8.74K20%
  5. marcy borders1.56K115.25K1%

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 theroot.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
312.6 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 56 days
Page and SEO
Title
The Root – Black News, Opinions, Politics and Culture
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
846
Internal / external links
58 / 9
Canonical
https://www.theroot.com/
Language
en-US
H1 / H2
0 / 3
Images missing alt
1 / 52
Feed / Manifest / AMP
Feed
Technology and tracking3 tracking
Technology clues
WordPress · Bootstrap · jQuery · React · PHP
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Google Ads
External script hosts
sb.scorecardresearch.com · googletagmanager.com · c.amazon-adsystem.com · config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com · client.aps.amazon-adsystem.com · sourcepoint.theroot.com · imasdk.googleapis.com · vjs.zencdn.net · 1 more
Social links
facebook.com · instagram.com · twitter.com · youtube.com · tiktok.com · bsky.app
Server
nginx/1.22.1
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
google · k1
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
CAA issuers
amazon.com · comodoca.com · digicert.com · letsencrypt.org · 2 more
Site verification TXT
Google · Microsoft
SOA
rob.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
rob.ns.cloudflare.com. · teresa.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
172.66.166.130 · 104.20.17.109
AAAA
2606:4700:10::ac42:a682 · 2606:4700:10::6814:116d
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 172.66.160.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
56 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:theroot.com · DNS:*.theroot.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 110
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
16
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 8.4 KiB

Website information

When was theroot.com registered?

Domain
theroot.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1999-05-08
Registrar
GoDaddy.com, LLC
Expires
2028-05-08
Domain age
27 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.