theatlantic.com
DR 91by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 49/100

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Categorynews_and_media
Top 2,202
Global Rank
United States 79%
Top Market
-8%
Monthly Trend
60% Bounce
Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

27,270,460

7.9% vs last month

Bounce Rate

59.5%

Pages / Visit

2.6

Avg. Session

2m 20s

Domain Age

30.8 years

Traffic

#2,202Global Rank
#573Country Rank (840)
#34Category Rank · News_and_Media
Traffic Trend
7.9%
Traffic Sources
Organic Search
23.0%
Direct
50.1%
Social
12.7%
Referral
7.4%
Paid
0.6%
Email
6.1%

Strong brand recognition: 50.1% from direct traffic

Geographic Distribution
DomainShareBar
🇺🇸United StatesUS
79.0%
🇨🇦CanadaCA
4.4%
🇬🇧United KingdomGB
3.0%
🇦🇺AustraliaAU
1.4%
🇩🇪GermanyDE
1.1%
Top 3 countries account for 86.3% of traffic — high geographic concentration

SEO & Keywords

Growth Readout

Direct traffic at 50% — strong brand recognition

Global rank top 2.2K — established player in the space

Traffic concentrated in United States (79%) — high geographic dependency

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

How does theatlantic.com actually grow?

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Competitive Landscape

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bbc.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Sports news and live sports coverage including scores, results, video, audio and analysis on Football, F1, Cricket, Rugby Union and all other UK sports.

467.5M/mo-7%Jul 1989$3.7K MRR

Shares 2 keywords including "iran"

aljazeera.com

aljazeera.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

News, analysis from the Middle East & worldwide, multimedia & interactives, opinions, documentaries, podcasts, long reads and broadcast schedule.

86.7M/mo-38%Apr 1996

Shares 2 keywords including "iran"

zeit.de

zeit.de

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Telefonate mit Anwälten oder Therapeuten sollten geheim bleiben. Doch eine Software-Lücke machte solche Informationen von mehr als 14.000 Inhaftierten öffentlich.

47.6M/mo-13%

Shares 2 keywords including "iran"

thehill.com

thehill.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Unbiased Politics News

34.0M/mo-18%Apr 1995

Shares 2 keywords including "epstein files"

thetimes.com

thetimes.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.

28.6M/mo+5%Jan 1995

Shares 2 keywords including "iran"

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