Last updated: August 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#970
AI visibility: Grade A
89
SEO health: Latest audit
67
Visits
2.8M
per month, estimated
Keywords
310.7K
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
2.8M organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
135 lines AI engines can read
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nexusmods.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Nexus Mods (Gaming) is ranked #970 worldwide in our August 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 1,000, down 10 places from #960 in July 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 2.8 million visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 310,700 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 89 out of 100 (grade A), with a published llms.txt of 135 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 67/100, with "Implement a Sitemap" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | #970 | ▼ 10 |
| July 2026 | #960 | ▲ 24 |
| June 2026 | #984 | — |
| May 2026 | #984 | ▲ 5 |
| April 2026 | #989 | ▼ 22 |
| March 2026 | #967 | ▼ 7 |
| February 2026 | #960 | — |
What this company does
Nexus Mods is a website dedicated to hosting and distributing modifications for video games. It allows creators to upload their mods and makes them available for others to download and use. The platform covers thousands of different games, giving people a single place to look for content that can alter everything from graphics and mechanics to entirely new storylines or features. Beyond just file hosting, it includes…
Our read on the site
Significant improvements needed.
nexusmods.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Search engines send nexusmods.com an estimated 2.8 million visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 2.8 million visits from unpaid results. Spread across 310,700 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 9.0 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
2.8M
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
2.8M
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.
nexusmods.com AI Visibility
nexusmods.com scores 89 out of 100 on our AI visibility scale, grade A. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt and Structured data. The biggest gap is Crawlability, at 5 of 10 points (robots ✓ · sitemap ✗), worth 5 points if closed. It also loses points on Company profile (22/25) and SEO health (17/20).
Grade A
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
7/8 core fields
85/100
robots ✓ · sitemap ✗
Detected
Fix these first
- → Complete your company profile so AI answers about you stay accurate.
- → Add sitemap.xml so AI crawlers can read you.
nexusmods.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on nexusmods.com runs to 135 lines (5,527 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in February 2026. It introduces the site as "Nexus Mods - Game Modding Community". It tells AI engines the business works in Gaming, Modding and Community Platforms. It describes 3 products, with prices such as Game Mod Hosting at Free with Premium Subscription options; Premium Membership at $4.99/month or $49.99/year; and Donation Points System at Free to use, donation optional. Services it lists include Community Forums and Modding Support. The audience it names is Gamers, Modders, Game Developers, aged 18-35 (Global). Technologies it mentions include HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. The keywords it claims start with "Nexus Mods", "game mods", "modding community" and "download mods".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
135
In the file
Size
5.5K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated Feb 24, 2026
What the file says
# Nexus Mods - Game Modding Community ## About Nexus Mods is a premier platform for video game modding, hosting over 816,868 mods for 4,386 games created by 176,209 authors. With a vibrant community of 71,441,570 members and over 21 billion downloads, it empowers gamers to customize and enhance their gaming experiences through user-generated content. The platform also supports mod authors via a donation system, having contributed over $15 million to creators to date. **Areas of Work:** Gaming, Modding, Community Platforms ## Things to Remember - **Website:** https://nexusmods.com - **Address:** Not Available, Not Available, Not Available - **Contact:** [email protected] - **Phone:** Not Available - **Hours:** 24/7 Online Support - **Timezone:** UTC+0 - **Currency:** USD - **Company Type:** Private - **Employees:** Not Disclosed - **Revenue:** Not Disclosed - **Hiring Status:** Yes, actively hiring ## Products - **Game Mod Hosting** (Free with Premium Subscription options): A platform to upload, download, and manage mods for thousands of games. - **Premium Membership** ($4.99/month or $49.99/year): Offers ad-free browsing, faster download speeds, and exclusive features for users. - **Donation Points System** (Free to use, donation optional): A unique system allowing users to donate points to mod authors, convertible to real money. ## Services - **Community Forums** (Fre
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- Game Mod HostingFree with Premium Subscription options
- Premium Membership$4.99/month or $49.99/year
- Donation Points SystemFree to use, donation optional
Services it tells AI about
- Community ForumsFree
- Modding SupportFree
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Gamers, Modders, Game Developers · 18-35 · Global
Company type
Private · actively hiring
nexusmods.com Organic Keywords
Google lists nexusmods.com for about 310,700 keywords, which together bring an estimated 2.8 million organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
310.7K
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
2.8M
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
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What it ranks for
nexusmods.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of nexusmods.com scored 67 out of 100 overall. Performance is its weakest area at 58, while accessibility scores highest at 90. The audit makes 10 recommendations in all, and 4 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
SEO
Performance
Accessibility
Excellent
Fix these first
- CriticalImplement a Sitemap
- HighOptimize Images
- HighMinimize CSS and JavaScript
- HighLeverage Browser Caching
6 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
nexusmods.com Competitors and Alternatives
Nexus Mods's company profile names moddb.com, curseforge.com and steamcommunity.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds gamebanana.com and mods.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are nationalgeographic.com, dnse2.com, ancestry.com and ln-msedge.net.
nexusmods.com Company Profile
Nexus Mods is a website dedicated to hosting and distributing modifications for video games. It allows creators to upload their mods and makes them available for others to download and use. The platform covers thousands of different games, giving people a single place to look for content that can alter everything from graphics and mechanics to entirely new storylines or features. Beyond just file hosting, it includes…
Nexus Mods was founded in 2001, about 25 years ago. Its profile files it under Gaming, with further tags for Modding, Community Platforms and Subscription-Based. Products on record for it: Game Mod Hosting, Community Forums and Donation Points System. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Modding made easy".
- Sector
- Gaming
- Headquarters
- Not Available, Not Available
- Founded
- 2001
- Employees
- Not Disclosed
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
- Products
- Game Mod Hosting, Community Forums, Donation Points System
nexusmods.com Traffic by Country
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