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Top 392

Global Rank

United States 47%

Top Market

+2%

Monthly Trend

45% Bounce

Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

85,175,183

↑1.5% vs last month

Bounce Rate

45.2%

Pages / Visit

5.1

Avg. Session

4m 44s

Domain Age

23.5 years

Traffic

#392Global Rank

#225Country Rank (840)

#1Category Rank · Libraries_and_Museums

Traffic Trend

↑1.5%

Traffic Sources

Organic Search

47.2%

Direct

43.1%

Social

4.2%

Referral

3.3%

Paid

0.1%

2.1%

Strong brand recognition: 43.1% from direct traffic

Geographic Distribution

DomainShare

🇺🇸United StatesUS

47.4%

🇬🇧United KingdomGB

6.6%

🇨🇦CanadaCA

5.5%

🇦🇺AustraliaAU

3.9%

🇪🇸SpainES

3.1%

Top 3 countries account for 59.6% of traffic

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords

Keyword
off campus	4.8M	$0.41	$229.0K
goodreads	1.1M	$0.46	$1672.4K
dungeon crawler carl	368.6K	$0.94	$57.0K
off campus series	243.2K	$0.66	$58.5K
good reads	153.4K	$0.47	$222.6K

SERP Rankings

Keyword			Ranking URL
project hail mary	#8	📄	www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary	808,740	$0.81
sonnet 5	#7	📄	www.goodreads.com/book/show/35716410-sonnet-5	258,440	—
socrates	#4	📄	www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/275648.Socrates	197,690	$0.83
ocean of pdf	#8	📄	www.goodreads.com/topic/show/22987837-is-ocean-of-pdf-safe-to-use	193,980	$2.30
rumi	#8	📄	www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/875661.Jalal_ad_Din_Muhammad_ar_Rumi	184,350	$0.89

Growth Readout

Direct traffic at 43% — strong brand recognition

Global rank top 392 — established player in the space

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

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Competitive Landscape

penguinrandomhouse.com

🔗 3 keyword overlap

Committed to publishing great books, connecting readers and authors globally, and spreading the love of reading.

5.2M/mo+4%Oct 2012

Shares 3 keywords including "project hail mary"

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variety.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences

27.2M/mo+0%Sep 1996

Shares 2 keywords including "project hail mary"

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audible.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

The Pillars will serve as a dynamic hub for local businesses, visitors and community, anchoring the downtown Newark neighborhood. The project deepens Audible’s commitment to our headquarters city and furthers our vision for investing in urban communities.

22.1M/mo+1%Dec 1996

Shares 2 keywords including "project hail mary"

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