paulgraham.com

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DR 85by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 49/100

Categorycomputers_electronics_and_technology/programming_and_developer_software

Top 73,808

Global Rank

United States 34%

Top Market

+9%

Monthly Trend

52% Bounce

Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

794,833

↑9.4% vs last month

Bounce Rate

52.3%

Pages / Visit

2.3

Avg. Session

1m 28s

Domain Age

27.7 years

Traffic

#73,808Global Rank

#60,211Country Rank (840)

#1,227Category Rank · Programming_and_Developer_Software

Traffic Trend

↑9.4%

Traffic Sources

Organic Search

23.4%

Direct

42.8%

Social

23.3%

Referral

9.4%

Paid

0.1%

0.9%

Strong brand recognition: 42.8% from direct traffic

Geographic Distribution

DomainShare

🇺🇸United StatesUS

34.2%

🇮🇳IndiaIN

7.4%

🇬🇧United KingdomGB

3.8%

🇨🇳ChinaCN

3.6%

🇳🇬NigeriaNG

3.0%

Top 3 countries account for 45.3% of traffic

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords

Keyword
yahoo	21.6M	$1.35	$26.2K
paul graham	80.0K	$2.49	$50.1K
paul graham essays	13.6K	$0.00	$13.4K
how to do what you love paul graham	1.7K	$0.00	$1.7K
do things that don't scale	1.4K	$0.00	$1.3K

SERP Rankings

Keyword			Ranking URL
hackernews	#8	📄	www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html	145,900	$2.73
paul graham	#1	🏠	www.paulgraham.com/	71,490	$0.36
paul graham essays	#8	📄	paulgraham.com/do.html	8,940	—
paul graham essays	#1	📄	paulgraham.com/articles.html	8,940	—
paul graham essays	#3	🏠	www.paulgraham.com/	8,940	—

Growth Readout

Direct traffic at 43% — strong brand recognition

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

How does paulgraham.com actually grow?

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Competitive Landscape

ycombinator.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

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17.6M/mo+2%Mar 2005

Shares 2 keywords including "hacker news"

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thehackernews.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

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2.4M/mo-8%Oct 2010

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hnrss.org

🔗 2 keyword overlap

20.4K/mo-29%May 2014

Shares 2 keywords including "hacker news"

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supertechfans.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

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5.1K/mo+24%Nov 2023

Shares 2 keywords including "hacker news"

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hackernewsletter.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

A weekly newsletter of the best articles on startups, technology, programming, and more. All links are curated by hand from the popular Hacker News site.

4.7K/mo-51%Jun 2010

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