mit.edu
DR 92by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 60/100

About

The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Categoryscience_and_education/universities_and_colleges
Top 590
Global Rank
United States 49%
Top Market
+1%
Monthly Trend
33% Bounce
Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

46,893,984

1.4% vs last month

Bounce Rate

33.3%

Pages / Visit

9.7

Avg. Session

8m 44s

Traffic

#590Global Rank
#311Country Rank (840)
#1Category Rank · Universities_and_Colleges
Traffic Trend
1.4%
Traffic Sources
Organic Search
35.2%
Direct
51.9%
Social
5.6%
Referral
5.7%
Paid
0.3%
Email
1.4%

Strong brand recognition: 51.9% from direct traffic

Geographic Distribution
DomainShareBar
🇺🇸United StatesUS
48.7%
🇯🇵JapanJP
4.5%
🇬🇧United KingdomGB
3.2%
🇮🇳IndiaIN
3.1%
🇧🇷BrazilBR
2.8%
Top 3 countries account for 56.4% of traffic

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords
Keyword
scratch4.2M$1.54$4787.9K
mit424.8K$1.28$198.9K
mit app inventor207.0K$0.84$291.1K
スクラッチ114.4K$1.15$236.3K
скретч110.6K$0.55$181.0K

Growth Readout

Traffic grew for 3 consecutive months (+6%, +1%, +1%) — clear upward momentum

Direct traffic at 52% — strong brand recognition

Bounce rate only 33%, avg session 524s — exceptionally high engagement

Global rank top 590 — established player in the space

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

How does mit.edu actually grow?

This page shows the surface. A Growth Teardown reverse-engineers the full playbook — which keywords drive signups, where backlinks come from, which channels convert, and what you can replicate in your own product.

Competitive Landscape

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🔗 10 keyword overlap

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🔗 6 keyword overlap
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harvard.edu

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🔗 6 keyword overlap

We have just filed a complaint and a motion for a temporary restraining order will follow. As we pursue legal remedies, we will do everything in our power to support our students and scholars. We have just filed a complaint and a motion for a temporary restraining order will follow. As we pursue legal remedies, we will do everything in our power to support our students and scholars.

31.1M/mo-9%

Shares 6 keywords including "tess"

openai.com

openai.com

🔗 5 keyword overlap

We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems. Building safe and beneficial AGI is our mission.

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Shares 5 keywords including "custom gpt"

Report based on data from May 2026

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