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thescottishsun.co.uk

thescottishsun.co.uk had about 6.36M visits in September 2026, down 3.95% from August; most traffic is direct.

Verifying Device

Website traffic

How much traffic does thescottishsun.co.uk get?

6.36M

-3.95%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7897.15M4.77M2.38M0
Global rank

11,186

Country rank · United Kingdom

362

Category rank · News and Media

32

Average visit duration

02:52

Pages per visit

2.48

Bounce rate

38.52%

Domain age

22 years

Search share

32.4%

Sources

Where does thescottishsun.co.uk's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    52.4%
  • Search
    32.4%
  • Social
    10.0%
  • Referrals
    2.1%
  • Email
    1.4%
  • Display ads
    1.3%
  • Generative AI
    0.3%
  • Paid search
    0.2%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit thescottishsun.co.uk?

  • United Kingdom
    85.3%
  • United States
    6.4%
  • Australia
    1.5%
  • Spain
    1.2%
  • Ireland
    0.7%

See how thescottishsun.co.uk compares with the most visited websites in the world, the fastest growing websites and sites gaining organic search traffic.

Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to thescottishsun.co.uk?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. scottish sunBRAND322.88K59.06K547%
  2. the scottish sunBRAND52.03K8.14K639%
  3. portugal national football team5.37K276.67K2%
  4. lotto4.78K709.14K1%
  5. sun news scotland4.01K800501%

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 thescottishsun.co.uk show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
1.3 KiB
Hosting
AUTOMATTIC · AS2635
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 47 days
Page and SEO
Title
Verifying Device
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
12
Internal / external links
0 / 0
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 0
Images missing alt
0 / 0
Technology and tracking
External script hosts
p.toadmash.net
Server
CloudFront
Security headers
1 / 6
HSTS / CSP
HSTS
Alt-Svc
Set
Cookie
1(Secure 0)
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
google
Mail stack
Proofpoint
IPv6
No AAAA
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
ns-59.awsdns-07.com
NS
ns-1415.awsdns-48.org. · ns-1834.awsdns-37.co.uk. · ns-59.awsdns-07.com. · 1 more
MX
1 mxa-00596a01.gslb.pphosted.com. · 10 mxb-00596a01.gslb.pphosted.com.
Hosting and networkAS2635
A
192.0.66.2
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:iframe.thescottishsun.co.uk · DNS:thescottishsun.co.uk
robots and AI crawling12 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
Yes
Sitemap
Discovered
AI explicitly disallowed
12
AI explicitly allowed
4
Disallow examples
ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Google-Extended · Bytespider · CCBot · cohere-ai · PerplexityBot · Amazonbot · 4 more
Well-known public paths
Present / checked
0 / 5

Website information

When was thescottishsun.co.uk registered?

Domain
thescottishsun.co.uk
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2004-08-15
Registrar
Markmonitor Inc.
Expires
2028-08-15
Domain age
22 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
server delete prohibited · server transfer prohibited · server 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.