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Estimated trafficEstimated from public data and our own crawl of academia.edu.

Est. monthly visits

39M

as of Aug 2026

Est. by device type

Desktop 40%

Mobile 60%

25M50M75M100M202420252026Sep 2023: about 53.8M visitsOct 2023: about 51.8M visitsNov 2023: about 63.8M visitsDec 2023: about 58.3M visitsJan 2024: about 52.2M visitsFeb 2024: about 47.4M visitsMar 2024: about 45.2M visitsApr 2024: about 43.4M visitsMay 2024: about 42.2M visitsJun 2024: about 40.3M visitsJul 2024: about 43.8M visitsAug 2024: about 45.8M visitsSep 2024: about 45.2M visitsOct 2024: about 34.2M visitsNov 2024: about 33.6M visitsDec 2024: about 42.9M visitsJan 2025: about 44.1M visitsFeb 2025: about 43.1M visitsMar 2025: about 42.2M visitsApr 2025: about 40.1M visitsMay 2025: about 46.2M visitsJun 2025: about 41.4M visitsJul 2025: about 41.2M visitsAug 2025: about 38.2M visitsSep 2025: about 37.8M visitsOct 2025: about 42.3M visitsNov 2025: about 43.2M visitsDec 2025: about 42M visitsJan 2026: about 42M visitsFeb 2026: about 48M visitsMar 2026: about 48.9M visitsApr 2026: about 38.7M visitsMay 2026: about 36.2M visitsJun 2026: about 37M visitsJul 2026: about 38.6M visitsAug 2026: about 39M visits

Rankings

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Detected technologies (21)Detected on academia.edu. Site counts are our own detections across the web.

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