Last updated: August 2026
The Intellectual Property Office is the UK government body responsible for intellectual property rights, including patents, designs, trademarks, and copyright.[1][6] It serves businesses, inventors, creators, and other applicants seeking to protect and manage IP rights in the UK.[6][13]
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#49,585
AI visibility: Grade F
30
SEO health: Latest audit
100
Visits
3.5K
per month, estimated
Keywords
684
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
3.5K organic visits
LLMS.txt
Missing
AI engines have to guess
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ipo.gov.uk Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Intellectual Property Office (Government administration / intellectual property services) is ranked #49,585 worldwide in our August 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 100,000, up 186 places from #49,771 in July 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 3,519 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 684 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 30 out of 100 (grade F), with no llms.txt, which is the single biggest gap.
- Its last technical audit scored 100/100, with "Optimize Image Alt Attributes" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | #49,585 | ▲ 186 |
| July 2026 | #49,771 | ▲ 734 |
| June 2026 | #50,505 | — |
| May 2026 | #50,505 | ▲ 2,481 |
| April 2026 | #52,986 | ▲ 1,253 |
| March 2026 | #54,239 | ▲ 1,999 |
| February 2026 | #56,238 | — |
Our read on the site
The overall SEO health of the Intellectual Property Office website is exceptional, with perfect scores in performance, accessibility, best practices, and SEO. However, there are opportunities for improvement in on-page elements, particularly regarding image alt attributes and meta description length.
ipo.gov.uk Traffic and Visitor Engagement
ipo.gov.uk draws an estimated 3,519 visits a month from search engines. Effectively all of it is organic — about 3,519 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 684 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 5.1 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
3.5K
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
3.5K
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.
ipo.gov.uk Traffic by Country
A live-web estimate — not a measurement — puts Intellectual Property Office's largest markets as United Kingdom (90%), European Union (4%), United States (2%) and Canada (2%).
Top customer markets
AI estimate · live webWe only measure visitor geography for domains whose analytics are connected to us. For everyone else this is read live from the web and shown as an estimate — never mixed in with the measured numbers.
- United Kingdom90%
- European Union4%
- United States2%
- Canada2%
- Australia2%
Who buys: Businesses, inventors, creators, and legal professionals needing UK IP protection and guidance.
Sources: gov.uk · en.wikipedia.org · linkedin.com
Where its backlinks come from
Measured. The country each linking site is hosted in — a real signal of which regions know this brand.
No backlink sample for this domain yet.
Backlink Analytics collects one on its first run.
ipo.gov.uk AI Visibility
On our AI visibility scale ipo.gov.uk earns 30 of 100 points, a grade F. It takes full marks for SEO health and Crawlability. The biggest gap is LLMS.txt, at 0 of 40 points (Missing), worth 40 points if closed. It also loses points on Company profile (0/25) and Structured data (0/5). Without an llms.txt the score cannot go above 60, because that file alone carries 40 of the 100 points.
Grade F
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Missing
0/8 core fields
100/100
robots ✓ · sitemap ✓
Not detected
Fix these first
- → Publish an llms.txt — the single biggest AI-visibility gain (+40).
- → Complete your company profile so AI answers about you stay accurate.
This brand appears frequently in AI answers about UK intellectual property because it is the official government authority for the category and has strong authoritative web presence.[1][6]
ipo.gov.uk Organic Keywords
Google lists ipo.gov.uk for about 684 keywords, which together bring an estimated 3,519 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
684
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
3.5K
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
Topics this brand is known for
live webipo.gov.uk SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of ipo.gov.uk scored 100 out of 100 overall. All 3 sub-scores are 90 or above. The audit makes 12 recommendations in all, and 3 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
Excellent
SEO
Excellent
Performance
Excellent
Accessibility
Excellent
Fix these first
- CriticalOptimize Image Alt Attributes
- HighRevise Meta Description Length
- HighConduct Internal Link Audit
- MediumEnhance Mobile Responsiveness
8 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
ipo.gov.uk Competitors and Alternatives
A live-web read points to European Union Intellectual Property Office, World Intellectual Property Organization, National patent and trademark offices and Private IP law firms. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are themeruby.com, oplata.ru, freeconnect.link and shikari.tech.
Some names read live from the web
ipo.gov.uk Company Profile
The business behind the domain — what it does, where it is, and who runs it.
The Intellectual Property Office is the UK government body responsible for intellectual property rights, including patents, designs, trademarks, and copyright.[1][6] It serves businesses, inventors, creators, and other applicants seeking to protect and manage IP rights in the UK.[6][13]
- Industry
- Government administration / intellectual property services
- Headquarters
- Newport, United Kingdom
- Founded
- null
- Employees
- approximately 1,600
- Products
- Patent services, Trade mark services, Design registration services, Copyright guidance, IP enforcement and dispute services
- Competitors
- European Union Intellectual Property Office, World Intellectual Property Organization, National patent and trademark offices, Private IP law firms, Trademark registration platforms
- Audience
- Businesses, inventors, creators, and legal professionals needing UK IP protection and guidance.
Live-web sources:gov.uken.wikipedia.orglinkedin.comassets.publishing.service.gov.uk
ipo.gov.uk LLMS.txt
The file AI engines read to understand a business. This is what it currently tells them about this one.
There is no llms.txt on ipo.gov.uk. Without it, AI engines guess what this business does from whatever page they happen to crawl — which is how wrong prices, wrong locations and wrong product descriptions end up inside AI answers.
- → It is the single biggest AI-visibility gain available here (+40 points).
- → The generator writes it from the live site, in one pass.
- → You publish one file at the root; nothing else on the site changes.
0
of 40 points
ipo.gov.uk 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.
We haven't run a backlink crawl for ipo.gov.uk yet, so there are no link counts to show. Backlink Analytics builds the profile on its first run and it appears here after that.
Sites already mentioning this brand
Found in a live web read — a mention is not the same as a link, but it is where links usually come from next.
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links on file
Companies ranked next to ipo.gov.uk
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