Last updated: September 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-09
#6,259
AI visibility: Grade C
67
SEO health: Latest audit
0
Visits
1.2M
per month, estimated
Keywords
293.8K
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
1.2M organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
133 lines AI engines can read
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azcentral.com Company Profile
azcentral serves as the digital home for The Arizona Republic, delivering daily coverage of local politics, business developments, and community stories across the state. Readers turn to the site for breaking updates on Phoenix metro issues alongside in-depth reporting on education, healthcare, and the environment. The team combines traditional journalism with digital tools to reach audiences who want quick headlines…
Founded in 1890 (about 136 years ago), azcentral is based in Phoenix, USA. Its workforce is listed as between 201 and 500 employees. Its profile files it under Media, Entertainment & Gaming, with further tags for News Media, Digital Publishing and Journalism. Products on record for it: Digital Subscription, Sunday Print Delivery and azcentral+ Premium. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Arizona news that matters, straight from the source".
- Sector
- Media, Entertainment & Gaming
- Headquarters
- Phoenix, USA
- Founded
- 1890
- Employees
- 201-500
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
- Products
- Digital Subscription, Sunday Print Delivery, azcentral+ Premium
azcentral.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- azcentral (Media, Entertainment & Gaming) is ranked #6,259 worldwide in our September 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 10,000, the same position it held in August 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 1.2 million visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 293,800 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 67 out of 100 (grade C), with a published llms.txt of 133 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 0/100, with "Implement Title and Meta Description" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #6,259 | — |
| August 2026 | #6,259 | ▼ 283 |
| July 2026 | #5,976 | ▼ 121 |
| June 2026 | #5,855 | — |
| May 2026 | #5,855 | ▼ 250 |
| April 2026 | #5,605 | ▼ 152 |
| March 2026 | #5,453 | ▼ 74 |
| February 2026 | #5,379 | — |
What this company does
azcentral serves as the digital home for The Arizona Republic, delivering daily coverage of local politics, business developments, and community stories across the state. Readers turn to the site for breaking updates on Phoenix metro issues alongside in-depth reporting on education, healthcare, and the environment. The team combines traditional journalism with digital tools to reach audiences who want quick headlines…
Our read on the site
The overall SEO health of https://azcentral.com is critically deficient, with missing essential on-page elements such as title, meta description, and headings. Technical issues further exacerbate the situation, including the absence of a viewport meta tag, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and favicon.
azcentral.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Search engines send azcentral.com an estimated 1.2 million visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 1.2 million visits from unpaid results. Spread across 293,800 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 4.1 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
1.2M
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
1.2M
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.
azcentral.com AI Visibility
azcentral.com scores 67 out of 100 on our AI visibility scale, grade C. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt and Structured data. 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) and Company profile (22/25).
Grade C
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
7/8 core fields
0/100
robots ✗ · sitemap ✗
Detected
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azcentral.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on azcentral.com runs to 133 lines (7,885 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in June 2026. It introduces the site as "azcentral". It tells AI engines the business works in News Media, Digital Publishing and Journalism. It describes 3 products, with prices such as Digital Subscription at $9.99/month and azcentral+ Premium at $14.99/month. Services it lists include Digital Advertising, Sponsored Content and Event Partnerships. Technologies it mentions include WordPress, Google Analytics and Chartbeat. The keywords it claims start with "Arizona news", "Phoenix", "local politics" and "breaking news".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
133
In the file
Size
7.9K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated Jun 5, 2026
What the file says
# azcentral ## About azcentral serves as the digital home for The Arizona Republic, delivering daily coverage of local politics, business developments, and community stories across the state. Readers turn to the site for breaking updates on Phoenix metro issues alongside in-depth reporting on education, healthcare, and the environment. The team combines traditional journalism with digital tools to reach audiences who want quick headlines or full investigations. Advertisers work with azcentral to place targeted messages in front of engaged Arizona households and decision makers. Over the years the operation has expanded from print roots into a full multimedia platform that includes video, podcasts, and interactive data projects. Staff writers and photographers cover everything from high school sports to legislative sessions at the state capitol. The site also hosts user forums and newsletters that keep subscribers informed on topics they follow most closely. Revenue comes primarily from digital subscriptions and local advertising partnerships rather than outside investors. Leadership focuses on maintaining editorial standards while adapting to changing reader habits on mobile and social channels. Community events and partnerships with local nonprofits help extend the brand beyond the screen. Historical archives give users access to decades of Arizona stories that still shape cu
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- Digital Subscription$9.99/month
- Sunday Print DeliveryContact for pricing
- azcentral+ Premium$14.99/month
Services it tells AI about
- Digital AdvertisingContact for pricing
- Sponsored ContentContact for pricing
- Event PartnershipsContact for pricing
Competitors it names
Company type
Private
azcentral.com Organic Keywords
Google lists azcentral.com for about 293,800 keywords, which together bring an estimated 1.2 million organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
293.8K
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
1.2M
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
azcentral.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of azcentral.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
- CriticalCreate and Submit Robots.txt
- CriticalCreate and Submit Sitemap.xml
16 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
azcentral.com Competitors and Alternatives
azcentral's company profile names phoenixnewtimes.com, azfamily.com, abc15.com and fox10phoenix.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds kjzz.org and arizonadailyindependent.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are ono.com, mixi.jp, go-vip.net and jwpcdn.com.
azcentral.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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Where its backlinks come from
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azcentral.com 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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