What powers scientificamerican.com?
Last seen Jun 2026 · 33 technologies across 19 categories
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| anti inflammatory supplements | #1 | 18,400 |
| what colors do dogs see | #1 | 13,800 |
| male birth control | #1 | 11,300 |
| brontosaurus | #3 | 10,700 |
| scientific scientific | #3 | 8,800 |
| scientific american | #1 | 8,200 |
| photograph of an atom | #1 | 6,700 |
| moebius loop | #2 | 6,600 |
| new color | #1 | 6,200 |
| japanese flu | #1 | 6,200 |
| dogs and wolves | #4 | 6,000 |
| orac | #9 | 5,500 |
| male contraceptive | #3 | 4,800 |
| artificial general intelligence | #80 | 4,700 |
| genetically modified | #72 | 4,700 |
| genetically modified | #40 | 4,700 |
| scientific magazine | #1 | 4,500 |
| mri accidents | #1 | 4,500 |
| quantum superposition | #19 | 4,100 |
| are viruses alive | #1 | 3,700 |
| male birth control pill | #1 | 3,700 |
| elephant toothpaste chemistry experiment | #2 | 3,600 |
| intermittency | #7 | 3,500 |
| sand worms | #3 | 3,200 |
| raccoon animal | #10 | 3,100 |
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
- 76% phone
- 21% desktop
- 3% tablet
United States
Canada
Australia
Singapore
Ireland
New Zealand
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
8.88 / 10 · ranked #577 of all domains
37,552 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
976,600 est. monthly organic visits (US)
345,261 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.8 s |
| INP | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Fastly
- Weight: 5.5 MB · 73 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| blogs.scientificamerican.com | 23 |
| www.scientificamerican.com | 12 |
| subscribe.scientificamerican.com | 8 |
| links.email.scientificamerican.com | 2 |
| static.scientificamerican.com | 2 |
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- detected Envoy Feb 2026
- dropped Chargebee Jan 2026
- dropped Adobe Audience Manager Sep 2025
- dropped Amazon Advertising Sep 2025
- dropped AppNexus Sep 2025
- dropped Conversant Consent Tool Sep 2025
- dropped ID5 Sep 2025
- dropped Microsoft ASP.NET Sep 2025
- dropped Prebid Sep 2025
- dropped PubMatic Sep 2025
- dropped Rubicon Project Sep 2025
- dropped Snowplow Analytics Sep 2025