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

Est. monthly visits

2M

as of Sep 2026

Est. by device type

Desktop 37%

Mobile 63%

2M4M6M202420252026Oct 2023: about 4M visitsNov 2023: about 3.1M visitsDec 2023: about 2.9M visitsJan 2024: about 3M visitsFeb 2024: about 2.7M visitsMar 2024: about 3.4M visitsApr 2024: about 3.8M visitsMay 2024: about 3.3M visitsJun 2024: about 2.8M visitsJul 2024: about 2.4M visitsAug 2024: about 1.7M visitsSep 2024: about 1.6M visitsOct 2024: about 2M visitsNov 2024: about 2M visitsDec 2024: about 2.1M visitsJan 2025: about 1.9M visitsFeb 2025: about 1.9M visitsMar 2025: about 1.7M visitsApr 2025: about 1.6M visitsMay 2025: about 1.3M visitsJun 2025: about 1.4M visitsJul 2025: about 1.5M visitsAug 2025: about 1.4M visitsSep 2025: about 1.4M visitsOct 2025: about 1.5M visitsNov 2025: about 1.4M visitsDec 2025: about 1.4M visitsJan 2026: about 1.5M visitsFeb 2026: about 1.4M visitsMar 2026: about 1.3M visitsApr 2026: about 1.5M visitsMay 2026: about 1.9M visitsJun 2026: about 1.9M visitsJul 2026: about 1.8M visitsAug 2026: about 1.9M visitsSep 2026: about 2M visits

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

Est. employees

56

Social profiles

Rankings

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

#70,852 overallof 100,000 ranked →

In the ranking, theintercept.com counts as 2 hostnames with 2.2M visits a month between them.

#4,875 in News & Publishingof 75,593 ranked →

Detected technologies (23)Detected on theintercept.com. Site counts are our own detections across the web.

Compare this stack →
Payments & Checkout
PayPal
Online payment platform for sending and accepting money
3.8M sites
CMS & Website Builders
WordPress
Open-source CMS powering websites, blogs, and content management
57.6M sites
WordPress.com
Hosted WordPress publishing and website platform.
3.1M sites
WordPress Themes & Plugins
WordPress Block Editor
Block-based content editor built into modern WordPress
11.9M sites
Web Analytics & Measurement
Google Analytics
Google platform measuring website traffic and visitor behavior
49M sites
Google Tag Manager
Tag management system deploying analytics and marketing tags without code
53M sites
Email & Push Marketing
Mailchimp
Email marketing platform for campaigns and audience management
3.9M sites
Business Email & Productivity
Google Workspace
Google suite for business email, docs, and collaboration tools
22M sites
Proton Mail
Encrypted email service focused on privacy
500.6K sites
CDN & Edge Delivery
Cloudflare
Global CDN and edge platform delivering and protecting websites
191.7M sites
Security & Bot Defense
Apple
Generic Apple service or integration detected on the site
577.6K sites
HSTS
HTTP header forcing browsers to use secure HTTPS connections
122.9M sites
Web Servers & Operating Systems
Nginx
High-performance web server and reverse proxy widely deployed
141.9M sites
Languages & Back-End Frameworks
PHP
Server-side scripting language powering a large share of websites
91.4M sites
Databases & Caching
Elasticsearch
Distributed search and analytics engine for indexing data.
15.8K sites
MySQL
Popular open-source relational database used by many web applications
59.5M sites
Performance & Optimization
Priority Hints
Browser resource hints signaling fetch priority for faster loading
62.4M sites
Social Media & Community
Meta
Generic Meta platform integration detected on the site
1.2M sites
SEO & Content Discovery
Google
Generic Google service or script detected on the site
35.8M sites
Open Graph
Metadata protocol controlling how page links preview on social platforms
127.7M sites
Site Kit
Official WordPress plugin connecting Google search and analytics tools
7.6M sites
other
ElasticPress
WordPress plugin that moves search and queries to Elasticsearch
6.9K sites
KnowBe4
Security awareness training and phishing simulation platform
151.5K sites

Infrastructure

Hosting / CDNWordPress.com
Mail (MX)Detected
HTTP status200

WordPress plugins & themes (19)

Detected on theintercept.com by our own scan.

Yoast13.7M sites
Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth
Security & Privacy
8.4M sites
Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
Social & Community
5.8M sites
Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed
Analytics
5.6M sites
Wpcom3.8M sites
My Jetpack3.8M sites
Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS
Performance & Speed
3.7M sites
Redirection
SEO
3.6M sites
Two Factor
Security & Privacy
1.3M sites
Videopress363.3K sites
Coauthors29.2K sites
Vip20.9K sites
Cron Control20.4K sites
ElasticPress
Performance & Speed
18.9K sites
Parse.ly
Analytics
13.9K sites
Apple News5.2K sites
Ti275 sites
E01f4251 sites
Intercept51 sites

Site footprint

Subdomains

Hosts we have seen under theintercept.com

1host
We publish the count today, not the list.

Structured data

BreadcrumbListschema.org type
EntryPointschema.org type
ListItemschema.org type
PropertyValueSpecificationschema.org type
ReadActionschema.org type
SearchActionschema.org type
WebPageschema.org type
WebPageElementschema.org type
WebSiteschema.org type

Domain details

LanguageEnglish
CopyrightThe Intercept

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