Last updated: September 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-09
#177,516
AI visibility: Grade D
59
SEO health: Latest audit
0
Visits
2.3K
per month, estimated
Keywords
522
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
2.3K organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
75 lines AI engines can read
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thebridge.jp Company Profile
The Bridge operates as a focused technology news platform that covers startup developments, AI advancements, and digital business trends across Japan and beyond. It delivers regular reporting on funding rounds, product launches, and policy shifts that matter to founders and investors. Readers turn to the site for practical analysis of e-commerce growth tactics and remote work patterns that Japanese teams are adopting…
The Bridge was founded in 2013, about 13 years ago, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Its workforce is listed as between 11 and 50 employees. Its profile files it under Media, Entertainment & Gaming, with further tags for Software & Internet, Technology News and Startup Media. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Tech news and startup insights from Japan to the world".
- Sector
- Media, Entertainment & Gaming
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Founded
- 2013
- Employees
- 11-50
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
thebridge.jp Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- The Bridge (Media, Entertainment & Gaming) is ranked #177,516 worldwide in our September 2026 domain ranking, down 8,685 places from #168,831 in August 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 2,281 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 522 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 59 out of 100 (grade D), with a published llms.txt of 75 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 0/100, with "Implement Title and Meta Description" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #177,516 | ▼ 8,685 |
| August 2026 | #168,831 | ▲ 12,826 |
| July 2026 | #181,657 | ▲ 5,954 |
| June 2026 | #187,611 | — |
| May 2026 | #187,611 | ▼ 14,191 |
| April 2026 | #173,420 | ▲ 46,400 |
| March 2026 | #219,820 | ▼ 7,664 |
| February 2026 | #212,156 | — |
What this company does
The Bridge operates as a focused technology news platform that covers startup developments, AI advancements, and digital business trends across Japan and beyond. It delivers regular reporting on funding rounds, product launches, and policy shifts that matter to founders and investors. Readers turn to the site for practical analysis of e-commerce growth tactics and remote work patterns that Japanese teams are adopting…
Our read on the site
The website https://thebridge.jp exhibits significant SEO deficiencies, including missing critical on-page elements such as title, meta description, and headings. Additionally, technical issues such as the absence of a viewport meta tag, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml further compromise its SEO health.
thebridge.jp Traffic and Visitor Engagement
thebridge.jp draws an estimated 2,281 visits a month from search engines. Effectively all of it is organic — about 2,281 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 522 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 4.4 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
2.3K
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
2.3K
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.
thebridge.jp AI Visibility
On our AI visibility scale thebridge.jp earns 59 of 100 points, a 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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thebridge.jp LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on thebridge.jp runs to 75 lines (4,033 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in May 2026. It introduces the site as "The Bridge". It tells AI engines the business works in Technology News, Startup Media and Digital Media. It describes 3 products, with prices such as The Bridge Newsletter at Free and Event Listings at Free. Services it lists include Sponsored Articles, Trend Reports and Newsletter Sponsorship. The audience it names is Business professionals and founders, aged 25-45 (Japan and global tech hubs). Technologies it mentions include HTTPS. The keywords it claims start with "technology news", "startup news", "AI trends" and "e-commerce strategies".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
75
In the file
Size
4.0K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated May 30, 2026
What the file says
# The Bridge ## About The Bridge operates as a focused technology news platform that covers startup developments, AI advancements, and digital business trends across Japan and beyond. It delivers regular reporting on funding rounds, product launches, and policy shifts that matter to founders and investors. Readers turn to the site for practical analysis of e-commerce growth tactics and remote work patterns that Japanese teams are adopting. The editorial approach blends quick news hits with deeper features on blockchain applications and emerging tech tools. Over time the publication has built a reputation for spotting early signals in the Japanese startup scene before they reach global outlets. Its audience includes venture capitalists scouting deals, corporate innovation teams, and entrepreneurs testing new models. Content is produced in both Japanese and English to bridge local developments with international interest. The team maintains a steady cadence of articles that highlight real outcomes rather than hype. Partnerships with local accelerators and universities help surface stories that might otherwise stay under the radar. Revenue comes mainly from display advertising and sponsored deep dives that align with reader interests. The site avoids paywalls so information stays accessible to early-stage founders who need it most. Regular newsletters summarize the week’s key mov
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- The Bridge NewsletterFree
- Startup Database AccessContact for pricing
- Event ListingsFree
Services it tells AI about
- Sponsored ArticlesContact for pricing
- Trend ReportsContact for pricing
- Newsletter SponsorshipContact for pricing
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Business professionals and founders · 25-45 · Japan and global tech hubs
Company type
Private
thebridge.jp Organic Keywords
Google lists thebridge.jp for about 522 keywords, which together bring an estimated 2,281 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
522
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
2.3K
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
thebridge.jp SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of thebridge.jp 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
- HighDevelop a Sitemap.xml
16 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
thebridge.jp Competitors and Alternatives
The Bridge's company profile names techcrunch.com, wired.com, theverge.com and forbes.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds businessinsider.com and entrepreneur.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are wendaifu.com, indonesiancupid.com, ns31.de and speedtest.ru.
thebridge.jp Traffic by Country
Which markets this brand actually serves, and where the web links to it from.
Top customer markets
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Where its backlinks come from
Measured. The country each linking site is hosted in — a real signal of which regions know this brand.
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thebridge.jp 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.
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