Website traffic
How much traffic does thesun.co.uk get?
41.68M
-23.10%MoMEstimated monthly visits
66.96M44.64M22.32M0
Global rank
1,509
Country rank · United Kingdom
80
Category rank · News and Media
8
Average visit duration
02:12
Pages per visit
2.14
Bounce rate
47.19%
Domain age
29 years
Search share
42.2%
Sources
Where does thesun.co.uk's traffic come from?
- Search42.2%
- Direct41.2%
- Social9.5%
- Referrals3.4%
- Email2.6%
- Paid search0.6%
- Display ads0.4%
- Generative AI0.2%
- Other0.1%
Regions
Which countries visit thesun.co.uk?
- United Kingdom59.8%
- United States12.6%
- Canada3.3%
- Australia2.4%
- Germany1.3%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to thesun.co.uk?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- the sunBRAND1.47M427.27K344%
- the sun uk114.24K26.94K424%
- sun news107.38K24.03K447%
- news88.68K9.02M1%
- sunBRAND80.96K303.66K27%
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 thesun.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
- Final URL
- https://www.thesun.co.uk/
- 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
- Mail stack
- Proofpoint
- IPv6
- No AAAA
- Site verification TXT
- Adobe · Atlassian · Google · Microsoft
- SOA
- ns-640.awsdns-16.net
- NS
- ns-1478.awsdns-56.org. · ns-1970.awsdns-54.co.uk. · ns-405.awsdns-50.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.thesun.co.uk · DNS:thesun.co.uk · DNS:www.thesun.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 thesun.co.uk registered?
- Domain
- thesun.co.uk
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 1997-05-19
- Registrar
- Markmonitor Inc.
- Expires
- 2028-05-19
- Domain age
- 29 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.