Last updated: September 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-09
#325,898
AI visibility: Grade D
59
SEO health: Latest audit
0
Visits
1.4K
per month, estimated
Keywords
363
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
1.4K organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
78 lines AI engines can read
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keypublishing.com Company Profile
Key Publishing has spent more than four decades producing specialist magazines, books and digital resources that serve the global aviation, defence and transport communities. Its titles cover everything from commercial airliner operations and historic military aircraft to modern logistics and rail developments, giving readers authoritative analysis and high-quality imagery. The company works closely with industry ins…
Founded in 1980 (about 46 years ago), Key Publishing is based in Stamford, United Kingdom. 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, Aviation Publishing and Defence Media. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Specialist publisher delivering trusted aviation, military and transport content worldwide".
- Sector
- Media, Entertainment & Gaming
- Headquarters
- Stamford, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1980
- Employees
- 51-200
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
keypublishing.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Key Publishing (Media, Entertainment & Gaming) is ranked #325,898 worldwide in our September 2026 domain ranking, up 2,660 places from #328,558 in August 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 1,382 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 363 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 59 out of 100 (grade D), with a published llms.txt of 78 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 0/100, with "Implement Title and Meta Description" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #325,898 | ▲ 2,660 |
| August 2026 | #328,558 | ▲ 35,550 |
| July 2026 | #364,108 | ▼ 5,393 |
| June 2026 | #358,715 | — |
| May 2026 | #358,715 | ▲ 36,065 |
| April 2026 | #394,780 | ▼ 24,580 |
| March 2026 | #370,200 | ▲ 46,840 |
| February 2026 | #417,040 | — |
What this company does
Key Publishing has spent more than four decades producing specialist magazines, books and digital resources that serve the global aviation, defence and transport communities. Its titles cover everything from commercial airliner operations and historic military aircraft to modern logistics and rail developments, giving readers authoritative analysis and high-quality imagery. The company works closely with industry ins…
Our read on the site
The SEO health of https://keypublishing.com is critically compromised due to missing essential on-page elements such as title, meta description, and headings. Additionally, there are significant technical issues including the absence of a viewport meta tag, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and favicon, which hinder the site's…
keypublishing.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Search engines send keypublishing.com an estimated 1,382 visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 1,382 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 363 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 3.8 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
1.4K
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
1.4K
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.
keypublishing.com AI Visibility
keypublishing.com scores 59 out of 100 on our AI visibility scale, grade D. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt. 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), Company profile (19/25) and Structured data (0/5).
Grade D
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
6/8 core fields
0/100
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keypublishing.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on keypublishing.com runs to 78 lines (5,455 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in May 2026. It introduces the site as "Key Publishing". It tells AI engines the business works in Aviation Publishing, Defence Media and Transport Journalism. It describes 5 products, including AirForces Monthly, Aviation News and Modern Railways. Services it lists include Event Organisation, Photo Archive Licensing, Custom Publishing and Digital Conversion. The audience it names is Aviation and defence professionals, enthusiasts, aged 25-65 (Global). Technologies it mentions include HTTPS. The keywords it claims start with "aviation industry trends", "transport history articles", "aviation digital resources" and "best aviation books".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
78
In the file
Size
5.5K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated May 16, 2026
What the file says
# Key Publishing ## About Key Publishing has spent more than four decades producing specialist magazines, books and digital resources that serve the global aviation, defence and transport communities. Its titles cover everything from commercial airliner operations and historic military aircraft to modern logistics and rail developments, giving readers authoritative analysis and high-quality imagery. The company works closely with industry insiders, photographers and historians to ensure every issue blends breaking news with long-form features that enthusiasts and professionals rely on. Key’s editorial teams are based in the UK but commission material from contributors across North America, Europe and Asia, allowing the brand to maintain a genuinely international perspective. In addition to print, Key has built a growing suite of digital magazines, e-books and online archives that let subscribers access decades of back issues on any device. The business model centres on paid subscriptions, newsstand sales and targeted advertising from aerospace manufacturers, airlines and defence contractors. Key also organises specialist events and reader tours that bring enthusiasts face-to-face with aircraft and industry leaders. Its customer base ranges from airline pilots and military personnel to scale modellers and academic researchers who need accurate technical data. Revenue is generat
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- AirForces MonthlyContact for pricing
- Aviation NewsContact for pricing
- Modern RailwaysContact for pricing
- Key Digital ArchiveSubscription
- Specialist Aviation BooksContact for pricing
Services it tells AI about
- Event OrganisationVaries
- Photo Archive LicensingVaries
- Custom PublishingProject-based
- Digital ConversionVaries
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Aviation and defence professionals, enthusiasts · 25-65 · Global
Company type
Private
keypublishing.com Organic Keywords
Google lists keypublishing.com for about 363 keywords, which together bring an estimated 1,382 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
363
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
1.4K
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
keypublishing.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of keypublishing.com scored 0 out of 100 overall. The audit makes 20 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
- HighGenerate and Submit Sitemap.xml
16 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
keypublishing.com Competitors and Alternatives
Key Publishing's company profile names aviationweek.com, flightglobal.com, military.com and airforcemag.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds theaviationist.com and airliners.net. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are bylynx.com, mower.online, luminatehealth.com and tiu.edu.iq.
keypublishing.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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keypublishing.com Backlink Analytics
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