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Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

Domain Summary

What is the traffic rank for Snopes.com?

• Snopes.com ranks #41,558 globally on HypeStat.

What percent of global Internet users visit Snopes.com?

• 0.0093% of global Internet users visit Snopes.com

How many people visit Snopes.com each day?

• Snopes.com receives approximately 323.7K visitors and 443,444 page impressions per day.

Which countries does Snopes.com receive most of its visitors from?

• Snopes.com is mostly visited by people located in United States,United Kingdom,Canada.

How much Snopes.com can earn?

• Snopes.com should earn about $1,716.87/day from advertising revenue.

What is Snopes.com estimated value?

• Estimated value of Snopes.com is $1,897,247.21.

What IP addresses does Snopes.com resolve to?

• Snopes.com resolves to the IP addresses 52.84.18.2.

Where are Snopes.com servers located in?

• Snopes.com has servers located in Seattle, Washington, 98108, United States.

snopes.com Profile

Title:Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Description:Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture.
The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Tags:
and misinformation.
urban legends
fact check
folklore
fact checks
rumors
fake news
myths
About: Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture. Edit Site Info

What technologies does snopes.com use?

These are the technologies used at snopes.com. snopes.com has a total of 15 technologies installed in 16 different categories.
Advertising
Amazon Advertising Amazon Advertising
CDN
Amazon Cloudfront Amazon Cloudfront
Email
Amazon SES Amazon SES
Google Workspace Google Workspace
PaaS
Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services
Tag Managers
Google Tag Manager Google Tag Manager
Webmail
Google Workspace Google Workspace
JavaScript Libraries
jQuery jQuery
Polyfill Polyfill
Web Servers
Nginx Nginx
Reverse proxies
Nginx Nginx
Personalisation
Piano Piano
CMS
WordPress WordPress
Blogs
WordPress WordPress
SEO
Yoast SEO Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO Premium Yoast SEO Premium
WordPress plugins
Yoast SEO Yoast SEO
Programming Languages
PHP PHP
Databases
MySQL MySQL

snopes.com Traffic Analysis

Snopes.com is ranked #41,558 in the world. This website is viewed by an estimated 323.7K visitors daily, generating a total of 443.4K pageviews. This equates to about 9.8M monthly visitors.
Daily Visitors323.7K
Monthly Visits9.8M
Pages per Visit1.37
Visit duration06:11
Bounce Rate75.73%
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Daily Unique Visitors:
323,682
Monthly Visits:
9,807,565
Pages per Visit:
1.37
Daily Pageviews:
443,444
Avg. visit duration:
06:11
Bounce rate:
75.73%
Global Reach:
0.0093%
Monthly Visits (SEMrush):
14,894,845
Monthly Unique Visitors (SEMrush):
12,437,983
Monthly Visits (SimilarWeb):
9,710,449
HypeRank:
41,558
SEMrush Rank:
2,045
*All traffic values are estimates only.

Traffic sources

Direct:
54.76%
Referral:
3.54%
Search:
33.37%
Social:
8.33%
Paid:
0%

Desktop vs Mobile

Desktop:
20.55%
Mobile:
79.45%

Visitors by country

Country
Users%
 
United States 57.8%
 
United Kingdom 5.4%
 
Canada 4.2%
 
India 4.0%
 
Australia 2.7%

Where do visitors go on snopes.com?

 
Reach%Pageviews%PerUser
snopes.com
99.84%99.68%1.3
OTHER
0%0.32%0
Last update was 689 days ago
     
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Search Engine Indexes ▼

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Google Index:
35,800
Bing Index:
92,500
Baidu Index:
150,000

Moz Data ▼

Domain Authority (DA) is a metric developed by Moz. DA is a score that predicts the ranking potential of a website on search engine result pages (SERPs). Moz calculates Domain Authority on a logarithmic scale from 1 to 100, with higher scores indicating a greater likelihood of ranking well in search results. Moz Domain Authority of snopes.com is 89.
Domain Authority:
  89
Page Authority:
  69
MozRank:
  7

  ▼

SEMrush is a complete on line advertising and marketing platform that gives a extensive variety of gear and functions to help companies and entrepreneurs in enhancing their on line visibility and optimizing their virtual advertising and marketing strategies.
SemRushSemRush
Domain:
  snopes.com
Rank:
(Rank based on keywords, cost and organic traffic)
  2,045
Organic Keywords:
(Number of keywords in top 20 Google SERP)
  702,805
Organic Traffic:
(Number of visitors coming from top 20 search results)
  1,797,497
Organic Cost:
((How much need to spend if get same number of visitors from Google Adwords)
  $774,940.00
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Revenue report ▼

Google.com would generate approximately $1.7K per day if the source of income were advertisements, which equates to an estimated monthly revenue of $51.5K and annual gross revenue of approximately $626.7K. Based on these figures, the site's net worth is estimated at around $1.9M.

How much would snopes.com make?

Daily Revenue:
$1,716.87
Monthly Revenue:
$51,506.10
Yearly Revenue:
$626,657.55
*All earnings values are estimates only.

Daily earning by country

 
CountryPageviewsEarning
 
United States 248,329$1,199.43
 
India 17,738$6.74
 
Romania 4,434$1.20
 
Pakistan 4,434$0.67
 
Ireland 0$0.00

Loss of money due to Adblock?

Daily Revenue Loss:
$273.14
Monthly Revenue Loss:
$8,194.14
Yearly Revenue Loss:
$99,695.37
Daily Pageviews Blocked:
66,871
Monthly Pageviews Blocked:
2,006,141
Yearly Pageviews Blocked:
24,408,045

Daily revenue loss by country

 
CountryBlockedLost Money
 
United States 44,699$215.90
 
India 4,967$1.89
 
Romania 931$0.25
 
Pakistan 1,419$0.21
 
Ireland 0$0.00

How much is snopes.com worth?

Website Value:
$1.9M

Ad Experience Report ▼

Summary of the ad experience rating of a website for a specific platform.

Mobile summary

Root domain:
snopes.com
Last Change Time:
(The last time that the site changed status.)
2018-10-29 03:16:59
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:
snopes.com
Last Change Time:
(The last time that the site changed status.)
2018-10-29 03:16:59
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:
snopes.com
Last Change Time:
(The last time that the site changed status.)
2018-10-29 03:16:59
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 snopes.com hosted? ▼

Snopes.com may be hosted in multiple data centers distributed in different locations around the world. This is probably just one of them.
Server IP:
52.84.18.2
ASN:
AS16509 
ISP:
Amazon.com, Inc. 
Server Location:
Seattle
Washington, WA
98108
United States, US
 

Other sites hosted on 52.84.18.2

How fast does snopes.com load? ▼

The average loading time of snopes.com is 1901 ms. The Desktop speed index is 56 and mobile speed index is 98.
Average Load Time:
1901 ms

Page Speed (Google PageSpeed Insights) - Desktop

56
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Field Data

Over the last 30 days, the field data shows that this page has a speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report.We are showing the 90th percentile of FCP and the 95th percentile of FID.

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Origin Data

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Lab Data


Page Speed (Google PageSpeed Insights) - Mobile

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Field Data

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Lab Data

Does snopes.com use compression? ▼

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snopes.com use gzip compression.
Original size: 100.24 KB
Compressed size: 25.29 KB
File reduced by: 74.94 KB (74%)

Google Safe Browsing ▼

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This site is not currently listed as suspicious

MyWot.com Reputation Ratings

MyWOT (short for "My Web of Trust") is a web-based reputation and rating service that provides users with information about the trustworthiness and safety of websites. snopes.com has 93 Safety Reputations.
Status:
  SAFE
Safety Reputations:
  93
Safety Confidence:
  59
Child Safety Reputations:
  90
Child Safety Confidence:
  54

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. snopes.com supports HTTPS.
 snopes.com supports HTTPS
     
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Common Name: snopes.com
Organization:
Location:
Issuer: Amazon
Valid from: Apr 4 00:00:00 2022 GMT
Valid until: May 3 23:59:59 2023 GMT
Authority: CA:FALSE
Keysize: 2048 Bits
Common Name: Amazon
Organization: Amazon, OU = Server CA 1B
Location: US
Issuer: Amazon Root CA 1
Valid from: Oct 22 00:00:00 2015 GMT
Valid until: Oct 19 00:00:00 2025 GMT
Authority: CA:TRUE
Keysize: 2048 Bits
Common Name: Amazon Root CA 1
Organization: Amazon
Location: US
Issuer: Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2
Valid from: May 25 12:00:00 2015 GMT
Valid until: Dec 31 01:00:00 2037 GMT
Authority: CA:TRUE
Keysize: 2048 Bits
Common Name: Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2
Organization: "Starfield Technologies, Inc."
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, US
Issuer:
Valid from: Sep 2 00:00:00 2009 GMT
Valid until: Jun 28 17:39:16 2034 GMT
Authority: CA:TRUE
Keysize: 2048 Bits

Verify HTTP/2 Support ▼

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 snopes.com supports HTTP/2
     
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Site Categories ▼

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Literature/Urban Legends

Http Header ▼

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content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
location: https://www.snopes.com/
date: Tue, 31 May 2022 23:21:20 GMT
server: nginx
x-cache: Miss from cloudfront
via: 1.1 f3e7670b93737db37c2c800d1901470c.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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HTTP/2 200 
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date: Tue, 31 May 2022 23:20:01 GMT
server: nginx
last-modified: Tue, 31 May 2022 23:19:49 GMT
cache-control: max-age=288, must-revalidate
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x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
content-security-policy: object-src 'none'
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x-batcache: HIT
vary: Cookie
x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
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age: 79

DNS Lookup ▼

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Type Ip Target/Txt TTL
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MX alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 234
MX alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 234
MX aspmx.l.google.com 234
MX alt3.aspmx.l.google.com 234
SOA 834
Mname ns-1780.awsdns-30.co.uk
Rname awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com
Serial Number 1
Refresh 7200
Retry 900
Expire 1209600
Minimum TTL 86400
NS ns-280.awsdns-35.com 3532
NS ns-1780.awsdns-30.co.uk 3532
NS ns-1083.awsdns-07.org 3532
NS ns-1004.awsdns-61.net 3532

Whois Lookup ▼

Domain WHOIS is a public database that provides information about domain names, including registered owners, contact information, domain registrars, registration and expiration dates, name servers, and other relevant information. Domain registration for this website began on January 9, 1997 and will expire on January 8, 2025 if not renewed. This website is now assigned through the registrar Network Solutions, LLC. The WHOIS data for this website's domain was last updated on November 6, 2018.
Domain Created:
1997-01-09
Domain Expires:
2025-01-08
Domain Updated:
2018-11-06
Domain Age:
27 years 3 months 10 days
Domain Registrar:
Network Solutions, LLC
Domain Owner:
PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC
WhoIs:
 

   Domain Name: SNOPES.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 111616_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
   Registrar URL: http://networksolutions.com
   Updated Date: 2018-11-06T15:42:56Z
   Creation Date: 1997-01-09T05:00:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2025-01-08T05:00:00Z
   Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC
   Registrar IANA ID: 2
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: email
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8003337680
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: NS-1004.AWSDNS-61.NET
   Name Server: NS-1083.AWSDNS-07.ORG
   Name Server: NS-1780.AWSDNS-30.CO.UK
   Name Server: NS-280.AWSDNS-35.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of whois database: 2022-05-31T23:22:06Z