Website traffic
How much traffic does thoughtco.com get?
2.92M
+16.07%MoMEstimated monthly visits
3.15M2.1M1.05M0
Global rank
26,064
Country rank · United States
10,374
Category rank · Education
345
Average visit duration
01:00
Pages per visit
1.54
Bounce rate
72.60%
Domain age
14 years
Search share
71.6%
Sources
Where does thoughtco.com's traffic come from?
- Search71.6%
- Direct18.2%
- Referrals7.5%
- Social1.9%
- Generative AI0.4%
- Email0.2%
- Display ads0.1%
- Other0.0%
- Paid search0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit thoughtco.com?
- United States56.6%
- United Kingdom4.2%
- Philippines4.2%
- Canada3.9%
- India3.0%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to thoughtco.com?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- periodic table of elements6.31K329.62K2%
- us states2.99K125.69K2%
- albert fish2.57K52.35K5%
- largest metro areas in us2.38K3.05K78%
- oxymoron2.32K185.3K1%
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 thoughtco.com show publicly?
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- Hosting
- CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC none
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 79 days
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · none
- DKIM selectors
- Mail stack
- Google Workspace
- IPv6
- AAAA present
- Site verification TXT
- Adobe · Atlassian · DocuSign · Facebook · Google
- SOA
- blue.foundationdns.com
- NS
- blue.foundationdns.org. · blue.foundationdns.com. · blue.foundationdns.net.
- MX
- 1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com. · 2 more
Hosting and networkAS13335
- A
- 172.66.1.220 · 162.159.141.224
- AAAA
- 2a06:98c1:58::1d8 · 2606:4700:7::1d8
- Hosting ASN
- AS13335 · 172.66.0.0/22
- Hosting organization
- CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- YE2
- Certificate remaining
- 79 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:*.thoughtco.com · DNS:thoughtco.com
robots and AI crawling5 disallowed
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- Sitemap
- Index · 2
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 5
- AI explicitly allowed
- 0
- Disallow examples
- ClaudeBot · Bytespider · Amazonbot · FacebookBot · Applebot-Extended
Well-known public paths2 hits
- Present / checked
- 2 / 4
- /ads.txt
- Present · 17.4 KiB
- /.well-known/security.txt
- Present · 292 B
- security summary
- Contact: https://hackerone.com/b6bf1613-5ba4-4ce3-b371-ac47e4507b5d/embedded_submissions/new · Policy: https://hackerone.com/dotdashmeredith · Preferred-Languages: en
Website information
When was thoughtco.com registered?
- Domain
- thoughtco.com
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 2013-01-16
- Registrar
- MarkMonitor Inc.
- Expires
- 2027-01-16
- Domain age
- 14 years
- DNSSEC
- No
- Registry status
- client delete 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.