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Estimated trafficEstimated from public data and our own crawl of cnet.com.

Est. monthly visits

25.4M

as of Aug 2026

Est. by device type

Desktop 20%

Mobile 80%

25M50M75M100M202420252026Sep 2023: about 49.4M visitsOct 2023: about 51.2M visitsNov 2023: about 44.2M visitsDec 2023: about 39.6M visitsJan 2024: about 35.7M visitsFeb 2024: about 36.6M visitsMar 2024: about 44.9M visitsApr 2024: about 59.8M visitsMay 2024: about 61M visitsJun 2024: about 54.3M visitsJul 2024: about 51.3M visitsAug 2024: about 47.2M visitsSep 2024: about 47.9M visitsOct 2024: about 46.5M visitsNov 2024: about 43.7M visitsDec 2024: about 42.5M visitsJan 2025: about 42.4M visitsFeb 2025: about 42.5M visitsMar 2025: about 42.5M visitsApr 2025: about 40.8M visitsMay 2025: about 41.6M visitsJun 2025: about 37M visitsJul 2025: about 35.6M visitsAug 2025: about 33.9M visitsSep 2025: about 35.5M visitsOct 2025: about 35.6M visitsNov 2025: about 31.9M visitsDec 2025: about 30.9M visitsJan 2026: about 29.6M visitsFeb 2026: about 30.8M visitsMar 2026: about 30.7M visitsApr 2026: about 31.3M visitsMay 2026: about 32.1M visitsJun 2026: about 31.8M visitsJul 2026: about 31.5M visitsAug 2026: about 25.4M visits

Estimated employeesEstimated from public data and our own crawl of cnet.com.

Est. employees

501 to 2,000

Rankings

Where cnet.com lands by estimated traffic, overall and among the sites we rank in each of its categories.

#1,404 overallof 100,000 ranked →

In the ranking, cnet.com counts as 9 hostnames with 57M visits a month between them.

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