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www.thefreedictionary.com had about 3.34M visits in September 2026, down 13.15% from August; most traffic is search.

Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary

Traffic

3.34M

-13.15%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7894.15M2.77M1.38M0
Global rank

17,838

Country rank · United States

7,279

Category rank · Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

23

Average visit duration

02:10

Pages per visit

2.86

Bounce rate

49.85%

Domain age

23 years

Search share

51.2%

Traffic sources

  • Search
    51.2%
  • Direct
    40.7%
  • Referrals
    5.0%
  • Social
    1.9%
  • Email
    0.9%
  • Generative AI
    0.3%
  • Display ads
    0.0%
  • Paid search
    0.0%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

  • United States
    44.3%
  • United Kingdom
    6.7%
  • Germany
    3.7%
  • Canada
    3.7%
  • Brazil
    3.0%

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Search visibility

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. 36.47K2.84M1%
  2. 12.19K211.75K6%
  3. BRAND3.96K447.13K1%

Keyword rankings

Keyword rankings

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Baidu rank

Site profile

Partially available
  • Hosting ASN
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 89 days
Email and DNS security
IPv6
AAAA present
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
172.67.141.236 · 104.21.79.42
AAAA
2606:4700:3034::6815:4f2a · 2606:4700:3035::ac43:8dec
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 172.67.128.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
89 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:thefreedictionary.com · DNS:*.thefreedictionary.com
robots and AI crawling12 disallowed
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
AI explicitly disallowed
12
AI explicitly allowed
0
Disallow examples
GPTBot · ChatGPT-User · OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot · Google-Extended · GoogleOther · Bytespider · CCBot · 4 more
Well-known public paths2 hits
Present / checked
2 / 5
/app-ads.txt
Present · 60 B
/ads.txt
Present · 4.8 KiB

Website information

Domain
thefreedictionary.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
2003-06-05
Registrar
Cloudflare, Inc.
Expires
2034-06-05
Domain age
23 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.thefreedictionary.com had about 3.34M visits in September 2026, down 13.15% from August; most traffic is search. Source: Vaneform estimates, https://vaneform.com/e/www-thefreedictionary-com (updated 2026-11-08).

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