What powers politico.com?
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| musk | #2 | 48,800 |
| politico | #1 | 37,100 |
| wisconsin supreme court race | #2 | 26,700 |
| charlie kirk | #79 | 23,300 |
| political caricature | #1 | 22,500 |
| tucker carlson | #5 | 21,100 |
| ghislaine maxwell | #5 | 21,100 |
| elon musk news | #1 | 20,600 |
| bannon | #3 | 19,600 |
| drudge report | #4 | 18,100 |
| breitbart website | #14 | 11,500 |
| pol cartoon | #1 | 11,200 |
| white house | #9 | 10,100 |
| elon | #3 | 9,900 |
| candace owens | #11 | 9,100 |
| pacific palisades | #8 | 8,900 |
| pacific palisades | #8 | 8,900 |
| irs | #41 | 8,600 |
| politics | #4 | 8,200 |
| arnold governor | #8 | 8,100 |
| kay granger | #2 | 8,000 |
| travis the chimp | #3 | 7,200 |
| james comey | #6 | 6,800 |
| navarro peter | #5 | 6,300 |
| shirley black | #8 | 5,900 |
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
- 78% phone
- 19% desktop
- 3% tablet
United States
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Australia
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
8.84 / 10 · ranked #678 of all domains
31,447 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
1,665,600 est. monthly organic visits (US)
563,907 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.3 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 300 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 3.8 MB · 1,242 requests
- Structured data: OpenGraph
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| secure.politico.com | 47 |
| www.politico.com | 41 |
| go.politico.com | 34 |
| events.politico.com | 22 |
| login.politico.com | 21 |
| focus.politico.com | 19 |
| cms.stage.politico.com | 10 |
| connect.politico.com | 10 |
| origin-storybook.politico.com | 10 |
| datadog.politico.com | 9 |
| data.politico.com | 3 |
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