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

Est. monthly visits

16.9M

as of Aug 2026

Est. by device type

Desktop 5%

Mobile 95%

20M40M60M80M202420252026Sep 2023: about 28.2M visitsOct 2023: about 30.1M visitsNov 2023: about 40.8M visitsDec 2023: about 41.9M visitsJan 2024: about 40.9M visitsFeb 2024: about 40.6M visitsMar 2024: about 41.9M visitsApr 2024: about 43.1M visitsMay 2024: about 42.5M visitsJun 2024: about 41.2M visitsJul 2024: about 45.9M visitsAug 2024: about 44.7M visitsSep 2024: about 35M visitsOct 2024: about 34M visitsNov 2024: about 34.8M visitsDec 2024: about 30.5M visitsJan 2025: about 26.1M visitsFeb 2025: about 26.5M visitsMar 2025: about 28.5M visitsApr 2025: about 37.5M visitsMay 2025: about 37.7M visitsJun 2025: about 35M visitsJul 2025: about 27.2M visitsAug 2025: about 27.5M visitsSep 2025: about 27.4M visitsOct 2025: about 25.3M visitsNov 2025: about 24.9M visitsDec 2025: about 24.4M visitsJan 2026: about 23.9M visitsFeb 2026: about 25.3M visitsMar 2026: about 24M visitsApr 2026: about 22M visitsMay 2026: about 19.8M visitsJun 2026: about 17M visitsJul 2026: about 16.1M visitsAug 2026: about 16.9M visits

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

Est. employees

11 to 50

Social profiles

Rankings

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

#8,037 overallof 100,000 ranked →

In the ranking, sciencealert.com counts as 2 hostnames with 16.2M visits a month between them.

#36 in Science & Environmentof 5,049 ranked →

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