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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| ao3 | #1 | 1,140,000 |
| eetion | #35 | 21,400 |
| smut | #3 | 10,700 |
| archiveofourown | #1 | 6,100 |
| archive of own | #1 | 6,100 |
| ephemer | #5 | 5,200 |
| all the young dudes | #1 | 4,500 |
| ao3 app | #1 | 4,500 |
| harry potter and luna | #5 | 4,200 |
| hermione granger weasley | #7 | 4,200 |
| mabel dipper pines | #4 | 4,000 |
| world wrestling federation | #46 | 3,800 |
| vid | #76 | 3,800 |
| izuku midoriya | #5 | 3,500 |
| squid game | #44 | 3,200 |
| ff harry potter | #1 | 3,000 |
| mabel dipper | #4 | 3,000 |
| re zero fanfiction | #2 | 2,900 |
| dipper mabel | #5 | 2,800 |
| dean winchester | #7 | 2,800 |
| mpreg | #3 | 2,600 |
| jason peter todd | #6 | 2,500 |
| worm ao3 | #1 | 2,500 |
| ao3 worm | #1 | 2,500 |
| ao3 original work | #1 | 2,500 |
The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
Audience
- 87% phone
- 9% desktop
- 3% tablet
United States
India
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
Brazil
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
7.56 / 10 · ranked #16,214 of all domains
1,357 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
3,934,700 est. monthly organic visits (US)
2,558,930 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 0.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 0.2 MB · 28 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| ao3-mailin01.archiveofourown.org | 12 |
| download.archiveofourown.org | 12 |
| www.archiveofourown.org | 12 |
| archiveofourown.org | 10 |
| secure.archiveofourown.org | 10 |
| www.staging.archiveofourown.org | 9 |
| insecure.archiveofourown.org | 8 |