Website traffic
How much traffic does thesouthafrican.com get?
5.09M
-18.15%MoMEstimated monthly visits
6.71M4.47M2.24M0
Global rank
15,048
Country rank · South Africa
135
Category rank · News and Media
8
Average visit duration
00:33
Pages per visit
1.68
Bounce rate
28.54%
Domain age
24 years
Search share
19.4%
Sources
Where does thesouthafrican.com's traffic come from?
- Direct36.2%
- Social34.6%
- Search19.4%
- Referrals5.0%
- Display ads3.0%
- Email1.9%
- Paid search0.1%
- Generative AI0.0%
- Other0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit thesouthafrican.com?
- South Africa79.4%
- United States5.2%
- Australia2.1%
- United Kingdom2.1%
- Ireland1.1%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to thesouthafrican.com?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- sundowns82.73K47.02K176%
- lotto results10.03K130.79K8%
- cape town weather9.33K97.5K10%
- weather cape town6.5K71.13K9%
- lotto3.46K709.14K1%
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 thesouthafrican.com show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 502.7 KiB
- Hosting
- AMAZON-02 · AS16509
- Email authentication
- DMARC none
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 137 days
Page and SEOSchema 10
- Final URL
- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/
- Title
- The South African
- Description
- The South African is an English-language South African online news publication and a leading source for news, sport, lifestyle, finance, opinion content in South Africa.
- Cross-origin redirect
- Yes
- Word count
- 4,703
- Internal / external links
- 237 / 11
- Canonical
- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/
- Language
- en-ZA
- H1 / H2
- 1 / 8
- Images missing alt
- 0 / 133
- Schema
- BreadcrumbList · EntryPoint · ImageObject · ListItem · Organization · PropertyValueSpecification · 4 more
- OG / Twitter
- OG · Twitter
- OG locale
- en_US
- Feed / Manifest / AMP
- Feed
Technology and tracking2 tracking
- Technology clues
- WordPress · jQuery · Bot protection
- Tracking clues
- Google Tag Manager · Google Ads
- External script hosts
- securepubads.g.doubleclick.net · google.com · applets.ebxcdn.com · googletagmanager.com
- Social links
- facebook.com · x.com · instagram.com · youtube.com · linkedin.com · tiktok.com · t.me
- Generator
- WordPress 7.1.3
- Server
- Pagely-ARES/1.22.28
- Security headers
- 6 / 6
- HSTS / CSP
- HSTS · CSP
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Not found
- DMARC
- Set · none
- DKIM selectors
- google · k1 · s1 · s2
- Mail stack
- Google Workspace
- IPv6
- No AAAA
- CAA issuers
- amazon.com · amazonaws.com · amazontrust.com · awstrust.com · 2 more
- Site verification TXT
- SOA
- ns-973.awsdns-57.net
- NS
- ns-1228.awsdns-25.org. · ns-1848.awsdns-39.co.uk. · ns-200.awsdns-25.com. · 1 more
- MX
- 1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com. · 2 more
Hosting and networkAS16509
- A
- 3.173.197.118 · 3.173.197.86 · 3.173.197.5 · 3.173.197.85
- Hosting ASN
- AS16509 · 3.173.197.0/24
- Hosting organization
- AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc.
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- Reverse DNS
- server-3-173-197-118.nrt12.r.cloudfront.net
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- Amazon RSA 2048 M04
- Certificate remaining
- 137 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:www.thesouthafrican.com · DNS:dev.thesouthafrican.com · DNS:thesouthafrican.com · DNS:s44334.pcdn.co
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- Sitemap
- Index · 520
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 0
- AI explicitly allowed
- 0
Well-known public paths2 hits
- Present / checked
- 2 / 5
- /llms.txt
- Present · 2.9 KiB
- /ads.txt
- Present · 8.6 KiB
- llms summary
- > The South African is an English\-language South African online news publication and a leading source for news, sport, lifestyle, finance, opinion content in South Africa\. · Gene
Website information
When was thesouthafrican.com registered?
- Domain
- thesouthafrican.com
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 2002-04-18
- Registrar
- GoDaddy.com, LLC
- Expires
- 2027-04-18
- Domain age
- 24 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.