What powers sciencefriday.com?
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| science friday podcast | #1 | 4,500 |
| science friday npr | #1 | 2,300 |
| bam bookstore | #48 | 1,400 |
| parker probe | #5 | 1,000 |
| bigfin squid | #8 | 800 |
| science friday podcast | #5 | 690 |
| why are moths attracted to light | #2 | 580 |
| science | #48 | 520 |
| neanderthal | #85 | 520 |
| binary code | #9 | 410 |
| kiki and bouba | #9 | 330 |
| national lampoon's christmas vacation | #88 | 320 |
| lampoon's christmas vacation | #63 | 320 |
| spontaneous theory | #5 | 310 |
| william sanford nye | #71 | 280 |
| uss united states ship | #49 | 280 |
| bouba kiki | #10 | 250 |
| dinosaur meaning | #4 | 240 |
| why do moths go to light | #2 | 240 |
| barred owl | #76 | 230 |
| mayor briggs | #28 | 230 |
| national lampoon's christmas vacation movie | #94 | 210 |
| rachel levine | #59 | 190 |
| spider hawk wasp | #42 | 190 |
| scifri | #1 | 180 |
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
- 75% phone
- 22% desktop
- 3% tablet
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Nigeria
India
Japan
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
7.68 / 10 · ranked #13,704 of all domains
2,587 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
44,300 est. monthly organic visits (US)
26,265 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.5 s |
| INP | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 3.6 MB · 89 requests
- WordPress theme: sciencefriday · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| www.sciencefriday.com | 36 |
| methods.sciencefriday.com | 21 |
| apps.sciencefriday.com | 17 |
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