Last updated: August 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#30,137
AI visibility: Grade D
56
SEO health: Not audited
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Visits
1.6K
per month, estimated
Keywords
567
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
1.6K organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
143 lines AI engines can read
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surf.nl Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- SURF (Education & Training) is ranked #30,137 worldwide in our August 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 100,000, up 12,935 places from #43,072 in July 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 1,604 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 567 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 56 out of 100 (grade D), with a published llms.txt of 143 lines.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | #30,137 | ▲ 12,935 |
| July 2026 | #43,072 | ▲ 6,824 |
| June 2026 | #49,896 | — |
| May 2026 | #49,896 | ▲ 4,399 |
| April 2026 | #54,295 | ▲ 764 |
| March 2026 | #55,059 | ▲ 4,276 |
| February 2026 | #59,335 | — |
What this company does
SURF operates as the national cooperative for information technology in Dutch education and research. It delivers high-speed networking, cloud platforms, and digital collaboration tools to universities and research institutes across the Netherlands. The organization focuses on secure and reliable connectivity that supports large-scale scientific computing and online learning environments. Members include nearly all D…
surf.nl Traffic and Visitor Engagement
surf.nl draws an estimated 1,604 visits a month from search engines. Effectively all of it is organic — about 1,604 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 567 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 2.8 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
1.6K
Latest estimate
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Organic visits
1.6K
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.
surf.nl AI Visibility
On our AI visibility scale surf.nl earns 56 of 100 points, a grade D. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt. The biggest gap is SEO health, at 0 of 20 points (Not scanned yet), worth 20 points if closed. It also loses points on Crawlability (0/10), Company profile (16/25) and Structured data (0/5).
Grade D
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
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surf.nl LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on surf.nl runs to 143 lines (8,122 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in August 2026. It introduces the site as "surf.nl". It tells AI engines the business works in Education & Training; Software & Internet; and Telecom, Networking & IoT. It describes 4 products, including SURFnet, SURFconext and SURFdrive. Services it lists include Network connectivity, Cybersecurity services and High-performance computing. It targets Netherlands. Technologies it mentions include High-speed fiber networks, OpenStack, SAML and OAuth. The keywords it claims start with "research network", "higher education IT", "academic networking" and "cloud for universities".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
143
In the file
Size
8.1K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated Aug 30, 2026
What the file says
# surf.nl ## About SURF operates as the national cooperative for information technology in Dutch education and research. It delivers high-speed networking, cloud platforms, and digital collaboration tools to universities and research institutes across the Netherlands. The organization focuses on secure and reliable connectivity that supports large-scale scientific computing and online learning environments. Members include nearly all Dutch universities, universities of applied sciences, and research organizations who jointly steer its direction. SURF maintains the SURFnet backbone that connects institutions with multi-gigabit links and international research networks. It also runs shared services such as identity federation, data storage, and high-performance computing access. By pooling resources, members reduce costs while gaining access to enterprise-grade infrastructure they could not build alone. The cooperative emphasizes open standards and privacy-friendly solutions tailored to the academic sector. SURF works closely with European partners like GÉANT to extend connectivity beyond national borders. Its services help researchers handle massive data sets from experiments in physics, life sciences, and climate modeling. Educational institutions use its platforms for secure student authentication and seamless access to digital resources. The organization invests in innovatio
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- SURFnetContact for pricing
- SURFconextContact for pricing
- SURFdriveContact for pricing
- SURFcumulusContact for pricing
Services it tells AI about
- Network connectivityMembership based
- Cybersecurity servicesContact for pricing
- High-performance computingUsage based
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Netherlands
Company type
Private
surf.nl Organic Keywords
Google lists surf.nl for about 567 keywords, which together bring an estimated 1,604 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
567
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
1.6K
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
No ranked-keyword data cached for this domain yet.
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What it ranks for
surf.nl Competitors and Alternatives
SURF's company profile names geant.org, jisc.ac.uk, dfn.de and renater.fr as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds switch.ch. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are adnuntius.com, hypersecu.com, webonic.hu and yljxf.com.
surf.nl Company Profile
SURF operates as the national cooperative for information technology in Dutch education and research. It delivers high-speed networking, cloud platforms, and digital collaboration tools to universities and research institutes across the Netherlands. The organization focuses on secure and reliable connectivity that supports large-scale scientific computing and online learning environments. Members include nearly all D…
SURF was founded in 1987, about 39 years ago, and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands. Its workforce is listed as between 201 and 500 employees. Its profile files it under Education & Training, with further tags for Software & Internet; Telecom, Networking & IoT; and Higher Education IT. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "ICT cooperative powering Dutch higher education and research".
- Sector
- Education & Training
- Headquarters
- Utrecht, Netherlands
- Founded
- 1987
- Employees
- 201-500
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
surf.nl Traffic by Country
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