Last updated: September 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-09
#11,946
AI visibility: Grade C
67
SEO health: Latest audit
0
Visits
697.3K
per month, estimated
Keywords
79.5K
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
697.2K organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
137 lines AI engines can read
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newspapers.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Newspapers (Digital Archives) is ranked #11,946 worldwide in our September 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 100,000, down 582 places from #11,364 in August 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 697,300 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 79,500 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 67 out of 100 (grade C), with a published llms.txt of 137 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 0/100, with "Implement Title and Meta Description" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #11,946 | ▼ 582 |
| August 2026 | #11,364 | ▼ 798 |
| July 2026 | #10,566 | ▲ 1,761 |
| June 2026 | #12,327 | — |
| May 2026 | #12,327 | ▼ 5,803 |
| April 2026 | #6,524 | ▼ 1,598 |
| March 2026 | #4,926 | ▲ 1,586 |
| February 2026 | #6,512 | — |
What this company does
Newspapers.com operates as a digital archive where visitors can explore thousands of old newspaper editions from around the country and beyond. The platform scans and indexes pages so that specific names, dates, or topics become searchable through its interface. People often use it to pull up everything from classified ads to front-page stories that reflect daily life in earlier eras. Researchers appreciate the abili…
Our read on the site
The overall SEO health of newspapers.com is critically poor, with missing essential on-page elements such as title, meta description, and H1 tags. Additionally, significant technical issues exist, including the absence of a viewport meta tag, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml, which could severely hinder search engine indexi…
newspapers.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Search engines send newspapers.com an estimated 697,300 visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 697,200 visits from unpaid results. Paid search contributes only about 140 visits a month. Spread across 79,500 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 8.8 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
697.3K
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
697.2K
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
140
0.02% of its search traffic
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.
newspapers.com AI Visibility
newspapers.com scores 67 out of 100 on our AI visibility scale, 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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newspapers.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on newspapers.com runs to 137 lines (5,818 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in March 2026. It introduces the site as "Newspapers.com - Historical Newspaper Archive". It tells AI engines the business works in Digital Archives, Genealogy and Technology. It describes 3 products, including Historical Newspaper Archive, Genealogy Research Tools and Crime Investigation Resources. Services it lists include Custom Research Assistance and Subscription Plans. The audience it names is Researchers, Genealogists, Historians, Journalists, General Public, aged 25-54 (Global). Technologies it mentions include React, Node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch. The keywords it claims start with "historical newspapers", "newspaper archive", "genealogy research" and "family history".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
137
In the file
Size
5.8K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated Mar 8, 2026
What the file says
# Newspapers.com - Historical Newspaper Archive ## About Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive, offering access to millions of historical newspapers for research, family history, crime investigations, and journalism. With a user-friendly platform, it serves researchers, genealogists, and the general public seeking to uncover historical insights. Utilized by millions monthly, it is an essential resource for exploring the past. **Areas of Work:** Digital Archives, Genealogy, Technology ## Things to Remember - **Website:** https://newspapers.com - **Address:** Not Available, Not Available, Not Available - **Contact:** [email protected] - **Phone:** Not Available - **Hours:** 24/7 - **Timezone:** America/New_York - **Currency:** USD - **Company Type:** Private - **Employees:** 75 employees - **Revenue:** $8.3M - **Hiring Status:** Yes, actively hiring ## Products - **Historical Newspaper Archive** (Contact for pricing): Access millions of historical newspapers dating back centuries for research and personal discovery. - **Genealogy Research Tools** (Contact for pricing): Specialized tools to assist in tracing family history through historical newspaper records. - **Crime Investigation Resources** (Contact for pricing): Resources for law enforcement and investigators to access historical crime reports and news articles. ## Services - **Custom Research Assi
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- Historical Newspaper ArchiveContact for pricing
- Genealogy Research ToolsContact for pricing
- Crime Investigation ResourcesContact for pricing
Services it tells AI about
- Custom Research AssistanceContact for quote
- Subscription PlansContact for quote
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Researchers, Genealogists, Historians, Journalists, General Public · 25-54 · Global
Company type
Private · actively hiring
newspapers.com Organic Keywords
Google lists newspapers.com for about 79,500 keywords, which together bring an estimated 697,200 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
79.5K
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
697.2K
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
newspapers.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of newspapers.com scored 0 out of 100 overall. The audit makes 12 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
- CriticalAdd H1 Tags
- HighCreate a Robots.txt File
- HighDevelop a Sitemap.xml
8 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
newspapers.com Competitors and Alternatives
Newspapers's company profile names newspapersarchive.com, genealogybank.com and ancestry.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds chroniclingamerica.loc.gov and findmypast.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are hostifi.com, doctolib.de, solidworks.com and computer.org.
newspapers.com Company Profile
Newspapers.com operates as a digital archive where visitors can explore thousands of old newspaper editions from around the country and beyond. The platform scans and indexes pages so that specific names, dates, or topics become searchable through its interface. People often use it to pull up everything from classified ads to front-page stories that reflect daily life in earlier eras. Researchers appreciate the abili…
Newspapers was founded in 2008, about 18 years ago. Its workforce is listed as between 51 and 200 employees. Its profile files it under Digital Archives, with further tags for Genealogy, Technology and Subscription-based. Products on record for it: Historical Newspaper Archive, Genealogy Research Tools and Crime Investigation Resources. Reported revenue is $8.3M (2023). Its tagline reads: "The past: read all about it.".
- Sector
- Digital Archives
- Headquarters
- Not Available, Not Available
- Founded
- 2008
- Employees
- 51-200
- Revenue
- $8.3M (2023)
- Funding
- Not Disclosed
- Products
- Historical Newspaper Archive, Genealogy Research Tools, Crime Investigation Resources
newspapers.com Traffic by Country
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