psu.edu
DR 91by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 60/100

About

Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. Learn more about Penn State degree programs and research.

Categoryscience_and_education/universities_and_colleges
Top 8,785
Global Rank
United States 83%
Top Market
-17%
Monthly Trend
49% Bounce
Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

5,987,928

16.9% vs last month

Bounce Rate

49.5%

Pages / Visit

4.4

Avg. Session

3m 33s

Traffic

#8,785Global Rank
#2,078Country Rank (840)
#59Category Rank · Universities_and_Colleges
Traffic Trend
16.9%
Traffic Sources
Organic Search
42.0%
Direct
30.9%
Social
3.1%
Referral
19.6%
Paid
1.3%
Email
3.1%
Geographic Distribution
DomainShareBar
🇺🇸United StatesUS
82.9%
🇮🇳IndiaIN
1.5%
🇬🇧United KingdomGB
1.0%
🇦🇺AustraliaAU
1.0%
Top 3 countries account for 85.4% of traffic — high geographic concentration

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords
Keyword
canvas6.3M$0.81$40.9K
penn state108.2K$6.57$65.1K
penn state university35.6K$3.79$19.5K
canvas psu31.4K$0.00$26.0K
lionpath20.5K$3.43$45.4K
SERP Rankings

Growth Readout

Global rank top 8.8K — established player in the space

Traffic concentrated in United States (83%) — high geographic dependency

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

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Competitive Landscape

sciencedirect.com

sciencedirect.com

🔗 4 keyword overlap

sciencedirect is the world's leading source for scientific, technical, and medical research. explore journals, books and articles.

91.0M/mo-7%Mar 1997

Shares 4 keywords including "sludge"

geeksforgeeks.org

geeksforgeeks.org

🔗 3 keyword overlap

Your All-in-One Learning Portal: GeeksforGeeks is a comprehensive educational platform that empowers learners across domains-spanning computer science and programming, school education, upskilling, commerce, software tools, competitive exams, and more.

22.8M/mo-6%Mar 2009

Shares 3 keywords including "hierarchical clustering"

ibm.com

ibm.com

🔗 3 keyword overlap

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

16.6M/mo-5%Mar 1986

Shares 3 keywords including "spss software"

w3schools.com

w3schools.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.

17.9M/mo-8%Mar 2000

Shares 2 keywords including "hierarchical clustering"

mathworks.com

mathworks.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

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7.1M/mo-19%Oct 1989

Shares 2 keywords including "hierarchical clustering"

Report based on data from May 2026

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