desertsun.com

DR 78by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 60/100

About

The latest Palm Springs area news from The Desert Sun newspaper in the California desert. Coachella Valley photos, obituaries and events calendar.

Categoryarts_and_entertainment/music

Top 59,811

Global Rank

United States 86%

Top Market

-17%

Monthly Trend

52% Bounce

Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

1,030,206

↓16.9% vs last month

Bounce Rate

51.8%

Pages / Visit

2.0

Avg. Session

50s

Domain Age

25.3 years

Traffic

#59,811Global Rank

#13,461Country Rank (840)

#138Category Rank · Music

Traffic Trend

↓16.9%

Traffic Sources

Organic Search

66.8%

Direct

22.3%

Social

4.0%

Referral

3.6%

Paid

0.1%

3.3%

SEO-dependent: 66.8% from organic search

Geographic Distribution

DomainShare

🇺🇸United StatesUS

86.4%

Top 3 countries account for 88.0% of traffic — high geographic concentration

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords

Keyword
memorial day 2026	3.3M	$0.25	$37.1K
mothers day 2026	2.2M	$1.93	$7.8K
post malone	211.9K	$0.95	$7.3K
california governor polls	72.8K	$0.00	$19.7K
bain fire	51.4K	$0.00	$16.4K

SERP Rankings

Keyword			Ranking URL
when is purim 2026	#4	📄	www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2026/03/03/when-is-purim-2026-everything-to-know-about-jewish-holiday-california/88960720007/	7,110	$6.29
discord recap	#9	📄	www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2025/12/05/how-to-your-check-discord-checkpoint-2025/87625441007/	1,130	$0.26

Growth Readout

Traffic concentrated in United States (86%) — high geographic dependency

3 tracked competitors in this category — competitive landscape is well-defined

How does desertsun.com actually grow?

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Competitive Landscape

governing.com

🔗 3 keyword overlap

This coverage will look at how public leaders establish new policies in a range of crucial areas of government – health, education, public safety, for example – and how these policies impact people’s lives through better services, effective regulations and new programs. This will include stories…

198.9K/mo-44%Mar 1996

Shares 3 keywords including "california governor race"

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