Last updated: September 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-09
#2,427
AI visibility: Grade A
84
SEO health: Latest audit
69
Visits
1.0M
per month, estimated
Keywords
264.1K
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
1.0M organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
136 lines AI engines can read
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inc.com Company Profile
Inc. has been covering the people and ideas behind fast-growing businesses for decades. The team focuses on real stories from founders who are building companies from the ground up. Readers get practical advice on hiring, funding, marketing, and scaling without the usual hype. The publication reaches entrepreneurs who want straight talk rather than theory. Inc. also runs events and awards that spotlight standout perf…
Founded in 1979 (about 47 years ago), Inc. Magazine is based in New York, United States. Its workforce is listed as between 51 and 200 employees. Its profile files it under Media, Entertainment & Gaming, with further tags for Professional & Business Services, Business Media and Entrepreneurship Publishing. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "The voice of growing companies since 1979".
- Sector
- Media, Entertainment & Gaming
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Founded
- 1979
- Employees
- 51-200
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
inc.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Inc. Magazine (Media, Entertainment & Gaming) is ranked #2,427 worldwide in our September 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 10,000, the same position it held in August 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 1.0 million visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 264,100 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 84 out of 100 (grade A), with a published llms.txt of 136 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 69/100, with "Implement a Sitemap" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #2,427 | — |
| August 2026 | #2,427 | ▼ 104 |
| July 2026 | #2,323 | ▼ 39 |
| June 2026 | #2,284 | — |
| May 2026 | #2,284 | ▼ 129 |
| April 2026 | #2,155 | ▲ 38 |
| March 2026 | #2,193 | ▼ 57 |
| February 2026 | #2,136 | — |
What this company does
Inc. has been covering the people and ideas behind fast-growing businesses for decades. The team focuses on real stories from founders who are building companies from the ground up. Readers get practical advice on hiring, funding, marketing, and scaling without the usual hype. The publication reaches entrepreneurs who want straight talk rather than theory. Inc. also runs events and awards that spotlight standout perf…
Our read on the site
Significant improvements needed. 1 critical issue. 2 high-priority issues.
inc.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Search engines send inc.com an estimated 1.0 million visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 1.0 million visits from unpaid results. Spread across 264,100 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 3.9 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
1.0M
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
1.0M
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
0
No paid search detected
Organic vs paid
100%
0%
We don't hold a month-by-month history for this domain yet.
The traffic dashboard builds one from the first scan onwards.
inc.com AI Visibility
inc.com scores 84 out of 100 on our AI visibility scale, grade A. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt and SEO health. The biggest gap is Company profile, at 19 of 25 points (6/8 core fields), worth 6 points if closed. It also loses points on Crawlability (5/10) and Structured data (0/5).
Grade A
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
6/8 core fields
100/100
robots ✓ · sitemap ✗
Not detected
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inc.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on inc.com runs to 136 lines (7,103 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in June 2026. It introduces the site as "Inc. Magazine". It tells AI engines the business works in Business Media, Entrepreneurship Publishing and Content Creation. It describes 3 products, including Inc. Magazine Print, Inc.com Digital Access and Inc. 5000 Conference. Services it lists include Sponsored Content, Event Sponsorship and List Promotion. Technologies it mentions include WordPress, Google Analytics and CDN. The keywords it claims start with "entrepreneurship", "small business", "startups" and "leadership".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
136
In the file
Size
7.1K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated Jun 7, 2026
What the file says
# Inc. Magazine ## About Inc. has been covering the people and ideas behind fast-growing businesses for decades. The team focuses on real stories from founders who are building companies from the ground up. Readers get practical advice on hiring, funding, marketing, and scaling without the usual hype. The publication reaches entrepreneurs who want straight talk rather than theory. Inc. also runs events and awards that spotlight standout performers in the small-business world. Their content covers everything from early-stage struggles to later-stage exits. The brand stays independent while delivering timely reporting on trends that matter to owners. Over the years Inc. has become a trusted name for people who actually run companies day to day. Their digital platform mixes long-form features with quick daily updates that fit busy schedules. The audience includes both first-time founders and seasoned operators looking for fresh angles. Inc. keeps its focus narrow on growth stories rather than broad business news. Partnerships with advertisers stay relevant to the entrepreneurial reader base. The magazine continues to evolve its mix of print and online formats to match how people consume information now. Staff writers and contributors bring firsthand experience from the startup trenches. Regular columns tackle legal questions, tech tools, and leadership challenges that come up con
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- Inc. Magazine PrintContact for pricing
- Inc.com Digital AccessSubscription
- Inc. 5000 ConferenceTicketed
Services it tells AI about
- Sponsored ContentCustom
- Event SponsorshipCustom
- List PromotionCustom
Competitors it names
Company type
Private
inc.com Organic Keywords
Google lists inc.com for about 264,100 keywords, which together bring an estimated 1.0 million organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
264.1K
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
1.0M
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
No ranked-keyword data cached for this domain yet.
Ranked Keywords pulls the full list on its first run.
What it ranks for
inc.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of inc.com scored 69 out of 100 overall. Performance is its weakest area at 49, while SEO scores highest at 100. The audit makes 10 recommendations in all, and 3 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
SEO
Excellent
Performance
Accessibility
Fix these first
- HighImplement a Sitemap
- HighOptimize Image Sizes
- HighMinify CSS and JavaScript
- MediumLeverage Browser Caching
6 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
inc.com Competitors and Alternatives
Inc. Magazine's company profile names forbes.com, entrepreneur.com, fastcompany.com and businessinsider.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds wsj.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are stratoserver.net, jimdofree.com, moviesda14.net and windy.com.
inc.com Traffic by Country
Which markets this brand actually serves, and where the web links to it from.
Top customer markets
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Where its backlinks come from
Measured. The country each linking site is hosted in — a real signal of which regions know this brand.
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inc.com Backlink Analytics
Who vouches for this domain. Strong, varied links are still the clearest signal of authority — to search engines and to AI engines that cite sources.
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