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What technologies does politifact.com use?

These are the technologies used at politifact.com. politifact.com has a total of 8 technologies installed in 8 different categories.

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politifact.com Traffic Analysis

Politifact.com is ranked #190,300 in the world. This website is viewed by an estimated 61.9K visitors daily, generating a total of 88.7K pageviews. This equates to about 1.9M monthly visitors. Politifact.com traffic has decreased by 4.14% compared to last month.

Daily Visitors61.9K

1.1%

Monthly Visits1.9M

4.14%

Pages per Visit1.43

3.64%

Visit duration00:45

9.06%

Bounce Rate77.87%

3.94%

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Daily Unique Visitors:: 61,885
Monthly Visits:: 1,875,116
Pages per Visit:: 1.43
Daily Pageviews:: 88,669

Avg. visit duration:: 00:45
Bounce rate:: 77.87%
Global Reach:: 0.0012553%
Monthly Visits (SEMrush):: 2,172,627
Monthly Unique Visitors (SEMrush):: 1,676,690
Monthly Visits (SimilarWeb):: 1,894,446
HypeRank:: 190,300
SEMrush Rank:: 11,173
SimilarWeb Rank:: 46,086

*All traffic values are estimates only.

Traffic sources

Direct:: 38.33%
Referral:: 12.16%
Search:: 45.93%
Social:: 3.57%
Paid:: 0%

Desktop vs Mobile

Desktop:: 35.84%
Mobile:: 64.16%

Total Visits Last 3 Months

2.2M

MAR

APR

1.9M

MAY

Visitors by country

Country: Users%
: United States 79.63%
: Canada 5.32%
: United Kingdom 2.57%
: Australia 1.51%
: Germany 1.10%

Where do visitors go on politifact.com?

: Reach%Pageviews%PerUser
politifact.com: 99.72%99.71%1.4
OTHER: 0%0.29%0

Backlinks Report ▼

Politifact.com has a total of 4,523,057 backlinks from 4,733 referring domains and most of them comes from United States.

Total Backlinks:: 4,523,057
Follow Links:: 1,936,669
Nofollow Links:: 2,586,387
Referring Domains:: 4,733
Referring IPs:: 3,632
Authority Domain Score:: 57

Backlinks by country

Country: Domains
: United States 3,326
: Singapore 109
: Germany 83
: United Kingdom 74
: Canada 54

Backlinks by TLDs

TLD Distribution: Domains
.com: 3,265
.org: 498
.net: 212
.edu: 35
.gov: 3

Which sites are competitors to politifact.com?

Websites similar to politifact.com are sites similar on user interests and browsing behavior. Users can discover new websites that are similar to the ones they already enjoy or find useful.

Domain: CompareDaily Visitors
washingtonpost.com: Compare >4M
substack.com: Compare >2.6M
politico.com: Compare >2M
thehill.com: Compare >1.7M
ground.news: Compare >202.3K
mediabiasfactcheck.com: Compare >21.6K

Last update was 138 days ago

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Search Engine Indexes ▼

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Google Index:: 77,500
Bing Index:: 53,800

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Domain:: politifact.com
Rank: (Rank based on keywords, cost and organic traffic): 11,173
Organic Keywords: (Number of keywords in top 20 Google SERP): 229,028
Organic Traffic: (Number of visitors coming from top 20 search results): 216,575
Organic Cost: ((How much need to spend if get same number of visitors from Google Adwords): $121,172.00

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Revenue report ▼

Google.com would generate approximately $419.2 per day if the source of income were advertisements, which equates to an estimated monthly revenue of $12.6K and annual gross revenue of approximately $153K. Based on these figures, the site's net worth is estimated at around $394.5K.

How much would politifact.com make?

Daily Revenue:: $419.17
Monthly Revenue:: $12,575.10
Yearly Revenue:: $152,997.05

*All earnings values are estimates only.

Daily earning by country

: CountryPageviewsEarning
: United States 70,609$341.04
: Canada 4,718$28.50
: Australia 1,342$6.47
: United Kingdom 2,277$6.10
: Germany 972$1.36

Loss of money due to Adblock?

Daily Revenue Loss:: $71.18
Monthly Revenue Loss:: $2,135.29
Yearly Revenue Loss:: $25,979.38
Daily Pageviews Blocked:: 14,804
Monthly Pageviews Blocked:: 444,114
Yearly Pageviews Blocked:: 5,403,383

Daily revenue loss by country

: CountryBlockedLost Money
: United States 12,710$61.39
: Canada 1,180$7.12
: Australia 268$1.29
: United Kingdom 364$0.98
: Germany 282$0.39

How much is politifact.com worth?

Website Value:: $394.5K

Ad Experience Report ▼

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Mobile summary

Root domain:: politifact.com
Last Change Time: (The last time that the site changed status.): 2018-03-06 16:06:32
Ad filtering: (Chrome is not filtering ads on your site.): Off
Status: (The status of the site that is reviewed for the Better Ads Standards.): Passing

Desktop summary

Root domain:: politifact.com
Last Change Time: (The last time that the site changed status.): 2018-03-06 16:06:32
Ad filtering: (Chrome is not filtering ads on your site.): Off
Status: (The status of the site that is reviewed for the Better Ads Standards.): Passing

Abusive Experience Report ▼

Summary of the abusive experience rating of a website.

Root domain:: politifact.com
Last Change Time: (The last time that the site changed status.): 2018-03-06 16:06:32
Enforcement: (Chrome is not preventing your site from opening new windows or tabs.): Off
Status: (The status of the site reviewed for the abusive experiences.): Passing

Where is politifact.com hosted? ▼

Politifact.com may be hosted in multiple data centers distributed in different locations around the world. This is probably just one of them.

Server IP:: 2606:4700:20::681a:a86, 104.26.11.134
ASN:: AS13335
ISP:: Cloudflare Inc
Server Location:: Ashburn
VA
20149
United States, US

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How fast does politifact.com load? ▼

The average loading time of politifact.com is 88 ms.

Average Load Time:: 88 ms

Does politifact.com use compression? ▼

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politifact.com use br compression.

Original size: 110.82 KB
Compressed size: 22.78 KB
File reduced by: 88.04 KB (79%)

Google Safe Browsing ▼

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This site is not currently listed as suspicious

MyWot.com Reputation Ratings

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Status:: SAFE
Safety Reputations:: 92
Safety Confidence:: 46
Child Safety Reputations:: 93
Child Safety Confidence:: 45

SSL Checker - SSL Certificate Verify ▼

An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is a digital certificate that establishes a secure encrypted connection between a web server and a user's web browser. It provides authentication and encryption, ensuring that data transmitted between the server and the browser remains private and protected. politifact.com supports HTTPS.

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Site Categories ▼

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Politics/Transparency
Politics/Fact Checking

Http Header ▼

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DNS Lookup ▼

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Whois Lookup ▼

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Domain Created:: 2007-06-06
Domain Expires:: 2025-06-06
Domain Updated:: 2024-06-07
Domain Age:: 17 years 4 months 28 days
Domain Registrar:: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Domain Owner:: Domains By Proxy, LLC
WhoIs:

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