food.com
DR 82by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 60/100
27y1998-12-29Domain Age
7.3M-1%Monthly Visits
Search 64%United States 79%Primary Channel
1Competitors

Product Identity

About

Eat seasonally with winter recipes from Food.com. Make the most of cold-weather ingredients ranging from kale, cauliflower and squash to pears and grapefruit.

Categoryfood_and_drink/cooking_and_recipes

Product Identity · Insight

Operating for 27 years with no public revenue or community data — likely a traditional business or niche market product.

Growth Profile

Monthly Visits

7,297,193

1.0% vs last month

Bounce Rate

70.6%

Pages / Visit

2.6

Avg. Session

2m 5s

Domain Age

27.5 years

#8,825Global Rank
#2,122Country Rank (840)
#23Category Rank · Cooking_and_Recipes
Traffic Trend
1.0%

Growth Profile · Insight

Monthly visits of 7.3M with 2m05s average session. A high bounce rate (71%) suggests potential landing page or targeting issues.

Acquisition Engine

Traffic Sources
Organic Search
63.8%
Direct
27.3%
Social
2.7%
Referral
5.0%
Paid
0.4%
Email
0.9%
Geographic Distribution
DomainShareBar
🇺🇸United StatesUS
78.9%
🇨🇦CanadaCA
8.3%
🇦🇺AustraliaAU
2.1%
🇬🇧United KingdomGB
1.9%
Top 3 countries account for 89.3% of traffic — high geographic concentration
Top Keywords
Keyword
alfredo sauce recipe22.5K$0.21$20.0K
sushi rice recipe11.0K$0.21$3.7K
bourbon chicken7.4K$0.50$5.3K
kielbasa recipes3.7K$0.59$5.6K
pozole recipe2.9K$0.24$4.0K
SERP Rankings

Acquisition Engine · Insight

Heavily search-dependent (64%) and geographically concentrated in United States (79%) — dual concentration risk from algorithm changes and regional market shifts.

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Competitive Landscape

thekitchn.com favicon

thekitchn.com

thekitchn.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Inspiring cooks and nourishing homes through daily recipes, tips, kitchen design, and shopping guides.

20.7M/mo+0%Oct 2007

Shares 2 keywords including "tiramisu recipe"

Competitive Landscape · Insight

Facing significant traffic gap vs thekitchn.com (2.8x), but keyword overlap is only 2 — likely serving different market segments despite surface-level competition.

Report based on data from May 2026

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