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www.merriam-webster.com had about 65.57M visits in September 2026, up 4.77% from August; most traffic is search.

Merriam-Webster: America's Most Trusted Dictionary

Traffic

65.57M

+4.77%MoMEstimated monthly visits
78970.81M47.21M23.6M0
Global rank

705

Country rank · United States

277

Category rank · Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

3

Average visit duration

03:07

Pages per visit

2.83

Bounce rate

55.23%

Domain age

28 years

Search share

66.4%

Traffic sources

  • Search
    66.4%
  • Direct
    26.2%
  • Referrals
    3.5%
  • Social
    1.9%
  • Email
    0.9%
  • Paid search
    0.8%
  • Display ads
    0.2%
  • Generative AI
    0.2%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

  • United States
    63.4%
  • Canada
    5.4%
  • United Kingdom
    5.3%
  • India
    2.9%
  • Philippines
    2.7%

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Search visibility

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. 1.03M362.6K284%
  2. 620.91K138.91K447%
  3. 453.34K193.38K234%
  4. 450.09K17.78M3%
  5. BRAND369.13K273.62K135%

Keyword rankings

Keyword rankings

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Baidu rank

Site profile

Partially available
  • Hosting ASN
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 48 days
Email and DNS security
IPv6
AAAA present
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
104.20.45.199 · 172.66.150.196
AAAA
2606:4700:10::6814:2dc7 · 2606:4700:10::ac42:96c4
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 104.20.32.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
48 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:www.merriam-webster.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
Sitemap
Index · 113
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
0
Well-known public paths3 hits
Present / checked
3 / 5
/app-ads.txt
Present · 13.7 KiB
/ads.txt
Present · 18.3 KiB
/.well-known/security.txt
Present · 130 B
security summary
Contact: mailto:security@merriam-webster.com · OpenBugBounty: https://openbugbounty.org/bugbounty/DevsMw/ · Preferred-Languages: en-US

Website information

Domain
merriam-webster.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1999-02-08
Registrar
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Expires
2027-02-08
Domain age
28 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client transfer 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.
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www.merriam-webster.com had about 65.57M visits in September 2026, up 4.77% from August; most traffic is search. Source: Vaneform estimates, https://vaneform.com/e/www-merriam-webster-com (updated 2026-11-08).

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