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washingtonpost.com

washingtonpost.com had about 64.64M visits in September 2026, down 0.36% from August; most traffic is direct.

The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video

Website traffic

How much traffic does washingtonpost.com get?

64.64M

-0.36%MoMEstimated monthly visits
78977.38M51.58M25.79M0
Global rank

801

Country rank · United States

229

Category rank · News and Media

19

Average visit duration

03:08

Pages per visit

2.66

Bounce rate

57.57%

Domain age

31 years

Search share

23.7%

Sources

Where does washingtonpost.com's traffic come from?

  • Direct
    51.9%
  • Search
    23.7%
  • Email
    9.9%
  • Referrals
    6.3%
  • Social
    4.6%
  • Display ads
    1.6%
  • Paid search
    1.4%
  • Generative AI
    0.5%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit washingtonpost.com?

  • United States
    86.2%
  • Canada
    3.4%
  • United Kingdom
    1.5%
  • Australia
    0.9%
  • France
    0.6%

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Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to washingtonpost.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. washington postBRAND495.5K283.73K175%
  2. crossword354.77K611.78K58%
  3. newsBRAND215.57K9.02M2%
  4. crossword puzzles175.98K340.35K52%
  5. wapo155.54K86.49K180%

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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Site profile

What does washingtonpost.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
2.0 MiB
Hosting
AKAMAI-ASN1 Akamai International B.V. · AS20940
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 171 days
Page and SEOSchema 4
Title
The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video
Description
Breaking news, live coverage, investigations, analysis, video, photos and opinions from The Washington Post. Subscribe for the latest on U.S. and international news, politics, business, technology, climate change, health and wellness, sports, science, weather, lifestyle and more.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
2,473
Internal / external links
226 / 5
Canonical
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Language
en
H1 / H2
0 / 113
Images missing alt
20 / 39
Schema
CollectionPage · ImageObject · NewsMediaOrganization · WebSite
OG / Twitter
OG · Twitter
Technology and tracking3 tracking
Technology clues
WordPress · Next.js · React · Consent manager
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Google Ads
External script hosts
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net · pub.dv.tech · static.chartbeat.com
Security headers
0 / 6
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
MTA-STS / BIMI
BIMI
DKIM selectors
Not found
Mail stack
Proofpoint
IPv6
No AAAA
CAA issuers
amazon.com · amazonaws.com · amazontrust.com · awstrust.com · 2 more
Site verification TXT
Brave · Google · Microsoft
SOA
sdns34.ultradns.com
NS
ns-404.awsdns-50.com. · ns-666.awsdns-19.net. · sdns34.ultradns.biz. · 5 more
MX
10 mxa-001a3c01.gslb.pphosted.com. · 10 mxb-001a3c01.gslb.pphosted.com.
Hosting and networkAS20940
A
23.62.21.144 · 23.62.21.182
Hosting ASN
AS20940 · 23.62.21.0/24
Hosting organization
AKAMAI-ASN1 Akamai International B.V.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
Reverse DNS
a23-62-21-144.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
Amazon RSA 2048 M04
Certificate remaining
171 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:washingtonpost.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
6
Well-known public paths2 hits
Present / checked
2 / 4
/app-ads.txt
Present · 12.7 KiB
/ads.txt
Present · 10.0 KiB

Website information

When was washingtonpost.com registered?

Domain
washingtonpost.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1995-11-13
Registrar
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Expires
2027-11-12
Domain age
31 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client transfer prohibited · 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.