What powers thenational.scot?

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Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
kelly osbourne #66 950
the national newspaper scotland #1 820
the national newspaper scotland #1 820
james mcavoy #43 470
sir ian mckellen #77 420
jack osbourne #92 420
edinburgh #98 420
david tennant #81 420
saltire #3 350
welsh cymru #92 280
scotland's newspapers #1 220
sam heughan #42 210
ricky hatton #91 190
mary anne macleod #49 190
james dornan #41 170
glasgow central #3 160
tommy robinson #85 160
tommy robinson #29 160
tommy flanagan actor #49 160
tom jones net worth #5 160
fiona human #27 160
viggo mortensen films #91 130
is spotify down #36 130
billy connolly #84 100
bagpipes #52 100

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
  • 17% desktop
  • 7% tablet
  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland
  • France
  • Canada
  • Spain
  • Netherlands

Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.

Open Page Rank

7.61 / 10 · ranked #15,314 of all domains

2,445 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

25,400 est. monthly organic visits (US)

33,577 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.7 s
INP175 ms
CLS0.35
TTFB700 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.

Page

  • Language: English
  • CDN: Microsoft Azure
  • Weight: 4.1 MB · 2,931 requests
  • Structured data: JSON-LD

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.

Subdomains

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www.thenational.scot 46
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thenational.scot 19
directory.thenational.scot 13

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