Last updated: August 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#195
AI visibility: Grade C
67
SEO health: Latest audit
0
Visits
52.8M
per month, estimated
Keywords
6.5M
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
52.8M organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
152 lines AI engines can read
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medium.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Medium (Online Publishing) is ranked #195 worldwide in our August 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 1,000, down 9 places from #186 in July 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 52.8 million visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 6.5 million ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 67 out of 100 (grade C), with a published llms.txt of 152 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 0/100, with "Implement Title and Meta Description" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | #195 | ▼ 9 |
| July 2026 | #186 | ▼ 7 |
| June 2026 | #179 | — |
| May 2026 | #179 | ▼ 1 |
| April 2026 | #178 | ▲ 8 |
| March 2026 | #186 | ▼ 3 |
| February 2026 | #183 | — |
What this company does
Medium is a vibrant online publishing platform that empowers writers, thinkers, and storytellers to share their work with a global audience. Founded by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, it started as a place for long-form content but has evolved into a thriving community where anyone can publish stories, essays, and insights without needing technical skills. Users range from hobbyist bloggers to professional journalist…
Our read on the site
The SEO health of the provided URL is critically low due to missing essential on-page elements such as title, meta description, and headings. Additionally, significant technical issues, including the absence of a viewport meta tag and robots.txt, hinder the site's performance and accessibility.
medium.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
medium.com draws an estimated 52.8 million visits a month from search engines. Effectively all of it is organic — about 52.8 million visits from unpaid results. Spread across 6.5 million ranking keywords, that averages roughly 8.1 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
52.8M
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
52.8M
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.
medium.com AI Visibility
On our AI visibility scale medium.com earns 67 of 100 points, a grade C. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt and Structured data. The biggest gap is SEO health, at 0 of 20 points (0/100), worth 20 points if closed. It also loses points on Crawlability (0/10) and Company profile (22/25).
Grade C
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
7/8 core fields
0/100
robots ✗ · sitemap ✗
Detected
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- → Complete your company profile so AI answers about you stay accurate.
- → Add robots.txt and sitemap.xml so AI crawlers can read you.
medium.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on medium.com runs to 152 lines (6,312 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in April 2026. It introduces the site as "Medium". It tells AI engines the business works in Online Publishing, Content Creation and Digital Media. It describes 4 products, with prices such as Medium Membership at $5/month and Publications at Free. Services it lists include Story Publishing, Content Curation, Monetization Tools and Community Engagement. The audience it names is Aspiring writers, avid readers, professionals, aged 25-45 (Global). Technologies it mentions include HTTPS, React, Node.js, AMP and Cloudflare. The keywords it claims start with "writing", "stories", "publishing" and "blogging".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
152
In the file
Size
6.3K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated Apr 27, 2026
What the file says
# Medium ## About Medium stands out as an open platform where writers share stories that spark conversations and inspire change. It connects a diverse crowd of authors—from novices testing their voice to experts dropping knowledge bombs—with readers hungry for more than quick hits. The setup is straightforward: sign up, hit publish, and watch your piece ripple out via smart recommendations. Earnings flow through engaged reads in the Partner Program, turning passion into paychecks. Beyond that, tools like stats and edits help creators level up. Membership unlocks a world of ad-free, in-depth content for just five bucks a month. Publications act like mini-magazines, grouping voices around niches. It's global, with stories in dozens of languages, though English dominates. Tech-wise, it's snappy on mobile, though desktop loads could trim seconds. No gatekeepers here—quality rises naturally. For brands, it's authentic reach without salesy vibes. The community thrives on claps, highlights, and replies, building real bonds. Challenges like echo chambers get tackled with fresh curation. Ultimately, Medium proves writing still moves people in a video world. **Areas of Work:** Online Publishing, Content Creation, Digital Media ## Things to Remember - **Website:** https://medium.com - **Address:** - **Contact:** - **Phone:** - **Hours:** 24/7 - **Timezone:** PST - **Currency:** USD
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- Medium Membership$5/month
- Partner ProgramEngagement-based
- PublicationsFree
- Stats DashboardIncluded
Services it tells AI about
- Story PublishingFree
- Content CurationFree
- Monetization ToolsPartner Program
- Community EngagementFree
- Topic DiscoveryFree
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Aspiring writers, avid readers, professionals · 25-45 · Global
Company type
Private · actively hiring
medium.com Organic Keywords
Google lists medium.com for about 6.5 million keywords, which together bring an estimated 52.8 million organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
6.5M
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
52.8M
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
medium.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of medium.com scored 0 out of 100 overall. The audit makes 15 recommendations in all, and 4 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
SEO
Performance
Accessibility
Fix these first
- CriticalImplement Title and Meta Description
- HighAdd H1 and H2 Tags
- HighCreate a Robots.txt File
- HighAdd a Sitemap.xml File
11 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
medium.com Competitors and Alternatives
Medium's company profile names https://www.wattpad.com, https://www.scribophile.com, https://www.writer.com and https://www.authorsguild.org as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds https://www.inkitt.com and https://www.goodreads.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are rubiconproject.com, lencr.org, creativecommons.org and vungle.com.
medium.com Company Profile
Medium is a vibrant online publishing platform that empowers writers, thinkers, and storytellers to share their work with a global audience. Founded by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, it started as a place for long-form content but has evolved into a thriving community where anyone can publish stories, essays, and insights without needing technical skills. Users range from hobbyist bloggers to professional journalist…
Medium was founded in 2012, about 14 years ago, and is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. Its workforce is listed as between 101 and 250 employees. It was founded by Ev Williams. Its profile files it under Online Publishing, with further tags for Content Platform, Writing Community and Blogging. Products on record for it: Medium Membership, Partner Program and Publications. Total funding on record is $132M. Its tagline reads: "Where interesting ideas find their audience".
- Sector
- Online Publishing
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2012
- Employees
- 101-250
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- $132M
- Founders
- Ev Williams
- Products
- Medium Membership, Partner Program, Publications
medium.com Traffic by Country
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Top customer markets
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