Website traffic
How much traffic does thespec.com get?
1.5M
-1.93%MoMEstimated monthly visits
1.65M1.1M551.26K0
Global rank
43,907
Country rank · Canada
1,181
Category rank · News and Media
75
Average visit duration
01:51
Pages per visit
2.13
Bounce rate
57.12%
Domain age
26 years
Search share
39.9%
Sources
Where does thespec.com's traffic come from?
- Direct46.4%
- Search39.9%
- Social6.6%
- Referrals5.3%
- Email1.7%
- Generative AI0.1%
- Display ads0.0%
- Other0.0%
- Paid search0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit thespec.com?
- Canada84.3%
- United States10.1%
- Uzbekistan0.4%
- Australia0.4%
- Brazil0.3%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to thespec.com?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- hamilton spectatorBRAND4.71K1.48K318%
- hamilton spectator obituaries todayBRAND4.6K1.04K442%
- the spec hamiltonBRAND3.63K—
- death notices hamilton ontarioBRAND2.43K960253%
- the spec obitsBRAND2.19K1.09K201%
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 thespec.com show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 771.2 KiB
- Hosting
- LEE-ASN · AS10668
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC none
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 64 days
Page and SEOSchema 5
- Final URL
- https://www.thespec.com/
- Title
- Hamilton News - Daily Breaking News | The Spec
- Description
- thespec.com is your Hamilton source for daily breaking news, local stories, life, opinion, voices from the community, events and more.
- Cross-origin redirect
- Yes
- Word count
- 2,664
- Internal / external links
- 245 / 34
- Canonical
- https://www.thespec.com/
- Language
- en
- Noindex
- No
- H1 / H2
- 1 / 20
- Images missing alt
- 8 / 82
- Schema
- ImageObject · NewsMediaOrganization · Organization · SearchAction · WebSite
- OG / Twitter
- OG · Twitter
- Feed / Manifest / AMP
- Feed
Technology and tracking3 tracking
- Technology clues
- Bootstrap · jQuery · React · Bot protection
- Tracking clues
- Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Google Ads
- External script hosts
- google.com · bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com · c.webtrends-optimize.com · securepubads.g.doubleclick.net · micro.rubiconproject.com · config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com · client.aps.amazon-adsystem.com · tags.crwdcntrl.net · 4 more
- Social links
- facebook.com · twitter.com · youtube.com · instagram.com
- Security headers
- 5 / 6
- HSTS / CSP
- HSTS · CSP
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · none
- DKIM selectors
- selector1
- Mail stack
- Mimecast
- IPv6
- No AAAA
- Site verification TXT
- Atlassian · Facebook · Google · Microsoft
- SOA
- ns-431.awsdns-53.com
- NS
- ns-1057.awsdns-04.org. · ns-1884.awsdns-43.co.uk. · ns-431.awsdns-53.com. · 1 more
- MX
- 10 ca-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com. · 10 ca-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com.
Hosting and networkAS10668
- A
- 192.104.182.109
- Hosting ASN
- AS10668 · 192.104.182.0/24
- Hosting organization
- LEE-ASN - Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- Reverse DNS
- cms.us-midwest-1.vip.tn-cloud.net
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- WR1
- Certificate remaining
- 64 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:thespec.com · DNS:www.thespec.com
robots and AI crawling16 disallowed
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- Sitemap
- Index · 4
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 16
- AI explicitly allowed
- 0
- Disallow examples
- GPTBot · ChatGPT-User · OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot · anthropic-ai · Google-Extended · GoogleOther · Bytespider · 8 more
Well-known public paths2 hits
- Present / checked
- 2 / 3
- /app-ads.txt
- Present · 16.0 KiB
- /ads.txt
- Present · 16.0 KiB
Website information
When was thespec.com registered?
- Domain
- thespec.com
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 2000-12-19
- Registrar
- Tucows Domains Inc.
- Expires
- 2030-12-19
- Domain age
- 26 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.