scientificamerican.com

scientificamerican.com

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Michael Pollan dives into the scientific and philosophical puzzles of consciousness, from brain biology to AI and beyond

Categoryscience_and_education/science_and_education
Top 16,434
Global Rank
United States 57%
Top Market
-20%
Monthly Trend
69% Bounce
Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

4,744,432

↓20.3% vs last month

Bounce Rate

68.8%

Pages / Visit

1.6

Avg. Session

53s

Domain Age

29.1 years

Traffic

#16,434Global Rank
#5,288Country Rank (840)
#19Category Rank · Science_and_Education
Traffic Trend
↓20.3%
Traffic Sources
Organic Search
42.3%
Direct
34.4%
Social
8.5%
Referral
9.0%
Paid
1.3%
Email
4.4%
Geographic Distribution
DomainShareBar
🇺🇸United StatesUS
57.3%
🇨🇦CanadaCA
4.1%
🇬🇧United KingdomGB
3.4%
🇦🇺AustraliaAU
2.7%
🇮🇳IndiaIN
2.4%
Top 3 countries account for 64.8% of traffic

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords
Keyword
hantavirus14.2M$0.31$5.6K
hantavirus symptoms689.9K$0.64$15.9K
mythos390.9K$1.04$7.8K
is hantavirus spreading45.9K$0.00$5.3K
scientific american28.7K$1.01$30.0K
SERP Rankings
KeywordRanking URL
moltbot#9📄www.scientificamerican.com/article/moltbot-is-an-open-source-ai-agent-that-runs-your-computer/1,289,360—
artificial general intelligence#10📄www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-does-artificial-general-intelligence-actually-mean/117,500$0.74
moltbot ai#7📄www.scientificamerican.com/article/moltbot-is-an-open-source-ai-agent-that-runs-your-computer/34,110—
what is ai slop#10📄www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-slop-how-every-media-revolution-breeds-rubbish-and-art/8,230$0.42
dolphin ai#5📄www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-let-us-chat-with-dolphins/7,050$0.77

Growth Readout

Global rank top 16.4K — established player in the space

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

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Competitive Landscape

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🔗 2 keyword overlap

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🔗 2 keyword overlap

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🔗 2 keyword overlap

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🔗 2 keyword overlap

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