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What technologies does cnet.com use?

These are the technologies used at cnet.com. cnet.com has a total of 10 technologies installed in 10 different categories.

Advertising

Amazon Advertising

Google Publisher Tag

Security

HSTS

JavaScript Frameworks

Nuxt.js

Vue.js

Web Frameworks

Nuxt.js

Web Servers

Nuxt.js

Static Site Generator

Nuxt.js

Cookie compliance

OneTrust

Miscellaneous

Open Graph

PWA

Performance

Priority Hints

Programming Languages

Node.js

cnet.com Traffic Analysis

Cnet.com is ranked #11,301 in the world. This website is viewed by an estimated 1.2M visitors daily, generating a total of 2.4M pageviews. This equates to about 35M monthly visitors. Cnet.com traffic has decreased by 12.7% compared to last month.

Daily Visitors1.2M

10.83%

Monthly Visits35M

12.7%

Pages per Visit2.09

2.96%

Visit duration01:23

3.43%

Bounce Rate64.76%

0.81%

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Daily Unique Visitors:: 1,155,056
Monthly Visits:: 34,998,197
Pages per Visit:: 2.09
Daily Pageviews:: 2,410,443

Avg. visit duration:: 01:23
Bounce rate:: 64.76%
Global Reach:: 0.0234295%
Monthly Visits (SEMrush):: 60,874,228
Monthly Unique Visitors (SEMrush):: 41,599,718
Monthly Visits (SimilarWeb):: 35,001,693
HypeRank:: 11,301
SEMrush Rank:: 247
SimilarWeb Rank:: 1,886

*All traffic values are estimates only.

Traffic sources

Direct:: 28.98%
Referral:: 2.64%
Search:: 67.76%
Social:: 0.60%
Paid:: 0.03%

Desktop vs Mobile

Desktop:: 32.27%
Mobile:: 67.73%

Total Visits Last 3 Months

36.7M

DEC

40.1M

JAN

35M

FEB

Visitors by country

Country: Users%
: United States 56.90%
: Japan 5.15%
: Canada 4.63%
: United Kingdom 3.39%
: India 2.77%

Where do visitors go on cnet.com?

: Reach%Pageviews%PerUser
cnet.com: 66.69%62.20%1.47
download.cnet.com: 25.33%24.59%1.5
coupons.cnet.com: 5.44%9.88%2.9
japan.cnet.com: 3.11%3.13%1.6
email.cnet.com: 0.17%0.11%1

Backlinks Report ▼

Cnet.com has a total of 5,204,459 backlinks from 9,270 referring domains and most of them comes from United States.

Total Backlinks:: 5,204,459
Follow Links:: 4,665,775
Nofollow Links:: 538,683
Referring Domains:: 9,270
Referring IPs:: 7,690
Authority Domain Score:: 87

Backlinks by country

Country: Domains
: United States 5,926
: Germany 363
: Singapore 173
: United Kingdom 158
: France 155

Backlinks by TLDs

TLD Distribution: Domains
.com: 6,072
.org: 419
.net: 412
.edu: 37
.gov: 1

Last update was 15 days ago

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*HypeStat.com is not promoting or affiliated with cnet.com in any way. Only publicly available statistics data are displayed.

Search Engine Indexes ▼

Search engine indexes are huge databases or collections of net pages that search engines like google like google and yahoo use to retrieve applicable facts while customers carry out searches. These indexes are created through search engines like google and yahoo through crawling and indexing net pages from throughout the internet.

Google Index:: 2,750,000
Bing Index:: 230,000
Baidu Index:: 86,100

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SEMrush is a complete on line advertising and marketing platform that gives a extensive variety of gear and functions to help companies and entrepreneurs in enhancing their on line visibility and optimizing their virtual advertising and marketing strategies.

Domain:: cnet.com
Rank: (Rank based on keywords, cost and organic traffic): 247
Organic Keywords: (Number of keywords in top 20 Google SERP): 8,922,117
Organic Traffic: (Number of visitors coming from top 20 search results): 11,509,101
Organic Cost: ((How much need to spend if get same number of visitors from Google Adwords): $23,144,692.00

Full SEMrush Report >>

Revenue report ▼

Google.com would generate approximately $10.3K per day if the source of income were advertisements, which equates to an estimated monthly revenue of $307.8K and annual gross revenue of approximately $3.7M. Based on these figures, the site's net worth is estimated at around $11.6M.

How much would cnet.com make?

Daily Revenue:: $10,259.14
Monthly Revenue:: $307,774.20
Yearly Revenue:: $3,744,586.10

*All earnings values are estimates only.

Daily earning by country

: CountryPageviewsEarning
: United States 1,371,548$6,624.58
: Canada 111,505$673.49
: United Kingdom 81,693$218.94
: Japan 124,047$44.66
: India 66,718$25.35

Loss of money due to Adblock?

Daily Revenue Loss:: $1,404.27
Monthly Revenue Loss:: $42,127.98
Yearly Revenue Loss:: $512,557.04
Daily Pageviews Blocked:: 310,229
Monthly Pageviews Blocked:: 9,306,855
Yearly Pageviews Blocked:: 113,233,406

Daily revenue loss by country

: CountryBlockedLost Money
: United States 246,879$1,192.42
: Canada 27,876$168.37
: United Kingdom 13,071$35.03
: India 18,681$7.10
: Japan 3,721$1.34

How much is cnet.com worth?

Website Value:: $11.6M

Ad Experience Report ▼

Summary of the ad experience rating of a website for a specific platform.

Mobile summary

Root domain:: cnet.com
Last Change Time: (The last time that the site changed status.): 2022-04-12 13:47:46
Ad filtering: (Chrome is not filtering ads on your site.): Off
Status: (The status of the site that is reviewed for the Better Ads Standards.): Passing

Desktop summary

Root domain:: cnet.com
Last Change Time: (The last time that the site changed status.): 2022-04-12 13:47:46
Ad filtering: (Chrome is not filtering ads on your site.): Off
Status: (The status of the site that is reviewed for the Better Ads Standards.): Passing

Abusive Experience Report ▼

Summary of the abusive experience rating of a website.

Root domain:: cnet.com
Last Change Time: (The last time that the site changed status.): 2022-04-12 13:47:46
Enforcement: (Chrome is not preventing your site from opening new windows or tabs.): Off
Status: (The status of the site reviewed for the abusive experiences.): Passing

Where is cnet.com hosted? ▼

Cnet.com may be hosted in multiple data centers distributed in different locations around the world. This is probably just one of them.

Server IP:: 34.149.196.126
ASN:: AS396982
ISP:: Google LLC
Server Location:: Kansas City
Missouri, MO
64184
United States, US

Other sites hosted on 34.149.196.126

There are no other sites hosted on this IP

How fast does cnet.com load? ▼

The average loading time of cnet.com is 94 ms. The Desktop speed index is 51 and mobile speed index is 22.

Average Load Time:: 94 ms

Page Speed (Google PageSpeed Insights) - Desktop

Field Data

Over the last 30 days, the field data shows that this page has a FAST speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report.We are showing the 90th percentile of FCP and the 95th percentile of FID.

First Contentful Paint (FCP)829ms

First Input Delay (FID)4ms

Origin Data

All pages served from this origin have an FAST speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report. over the last 30 days.To view suggestions tailored to each page, analyze individual page URLs.

First Contentful Paint (FCP)1.2s

First Input Delay (FID)4ms

Lab Data

Lazy load third-party resources with facades
Some third-party embeds can be lazy loaded. Consider replacing them with a facade until they are required. Learn how to defer third-parties with a facade

First Contentful Paint 1.5 s
First Contentful Paint marks the time at which the first text or image is painted. Learn more about the First Contentful Paint metric

Time to Interactive 11.1 s
Time to Interactive is the amount of time it takes for the page to become fully interactive. Learn more about the Time to Interactive metric

Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`
A `<meta name="viewport">` not only optimizes your app for mobile screen sizes, but also prevents . a 300 millisecond delay to user input Learn more about using the viewport meta tag

Timing budget
Set a timing budget to help you keep an eye on the performance of your site. Performant sites load fast and respond to user input events quickly. Learn more about performance budgets

Performance budget
Keep the quantity and size of network requests under the targets set by the provided performance budget. Learn more about performance budgets

Speed Index 4.3 s
Speed Index shows how quickly the contents of a page are visibly populated. Learn more about the Speed Index metric

First Meaningful Paint 1.5 s
First Meaningful Paint measures when the primary content of a page is visible. Learn more about the First Meaningful Paint metric

Total Blocking Time 1,830 ms
Sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive, when task length exceeded 50ms, expressed in milliseconds. Learn more about the Total Blocking Time metric

Largest Contentful Paint 1.5 s
Largest Contentful Paint marks the time at which the largest text or image is painted. Learn more about the Largest Contentful Paint metric

Page Speed (Google PageSpeed Insights) - Mobile

Field Data

First Contentful Paint (FCP)1.2s

First Input Delay (FID)26ms

Origin Data

All pages served from this origin have an SLOW speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report. over the last 30 days.To view suggestions tailored to each page, analyze individual page URLs.

First Contentful Paint (FCP)1.6s

First Input Delay (FID)22ms

Lab Data

Total Blocking Time 13,490 ms
Sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive, when task length exceeded 50ms, expressed in milliseconds. Learn more about the Total Blocking Time metric

Performance budget
Keep the quantity and size of network requests under the targets set by the provided performance budget. Learn more about performance budgets

First Meaningful Paint 7.5 s
First Meaningful Paint measures when the primary content of a page is visible. Learn more about the First Meaningful Paint metric

First Contentful Paint 7.5 s
First Contentful Paint marks the time at which the first text or image is painted. Learn more about the First Contentful Paint metric

Speed Index 26.3 s
Speed Index shows how quickly the contents of a page are visibly populated. Learn more about the Speed Index metric

Largest Contentful Paint 7.8 s
Largest Contentful Paint marks the time at which the largest text or image is painted. Learn more about the Largest Contentful Paint metric

Time to Interactive 52.7 s
Time to Interactive is the amount of time it takes for the page to become fully interactive. Learn more about the Time to Interactive metric

Does cnet.com use compression? ▼

Website compression is the process of reducing the size of website files, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files, to improve website performance and load times. Compressing website files can significantly reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred from the server to the user's browser, resulting in faster page load times and improved user experience. Files on cnet.com are reduced by 80%.

cnet.com use gzip compression.

Original size: 1.1 MB
Compressed size: 223.42 KB
File reduced by: 902.95 KB (80%)

Google Safe Browsing ▼

Google Safe Browsing is a service provided by Google that helps protect users from visiting websites that may contain malicious or harmful content, such as malware, phishing attempts, or deceptive software.

This site is not currently listed as suspicious

MyWot.com Reputation Ratings

MyWOT (short for "My Web of Trust") is a web-based reputation and rating service that provides users with information about the trustworthiness and safety of websites. cnet.com has 92 Safety Reputations.

Status:: SAFE
Safety Reputations:: 92
Safety Confidence:: 59
Child Safety Reputations:: 93
Child Safety Confidence:: 60

SSL Checker - SSL Certificate Verify ▼

An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is a digital certificate that establishes a secure encrypted connection between a web server and a user's web browser. It provides authentication and encryption, ensuring that data transmitted between the server and the browser remains private and protected. cnet.com supports HTTPS.

cnet.com supports HTTPS

Verifying SSL Support. Please wait...

Common Name: *.cnet.com
Organization:
Location:
Issuer: R3
Valid from: Feb 19 12:21:36 2024 GMT
Valid until: May 19 12:21:35 2024 GMT
Authority: CA:FALSE
Keysize: 2048 Bits

Common Name: R3
Organization: Let's Encrypt
Location: US
Issuer: ISRG Root X1
Valid from: Sep 4 00:00:00 2020 GMT
Valid until: Sep 15 16:00:00 2025 GMT
Authority: CA:TRUE
Keysize: 2048 Bits

Common Name: ISRG Root X1
Organization: Internet Security Research Group
Location: US
Issuer: DST Root CA X3
Valid from: Jan 20 19:14:03 2021 GMT
Valid until: Sep 30 18:14:03 2024 GMT
Authority: CA:TRUE
Keysize: 4096 Bits

Verify HTTP/2 Support ▼

HTTP/2 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2) is a major revision of the HTTP protocol, which is the foundation of data communication on the World Wide Web. It was developed as an improvement over the previous HTTP/1.1 version to enhance web performance and efficiency.

cnet.com supports HTTP/2

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Site Categories ▼

Website categories are used to classify websites based on their content or purpose. These categories provide a way to organize and filter websites, allowing users to find relevant information or ensure compliance with specific regulations or policies.

Internet/Resources

Http Header ▼

HTTP headers are extra portions of records despatched among a consumer (which include an internet browser) and a server at some stage in an HTTP request or response. They offer instructions, metadata, or manipulate parameters for the conversation among the consumer and server.

server: nginx/1.25.4
date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:53:24 GMT
content-type: text/html
content-length: 169
location: https://www.cnet.com/
via: 1.1 google
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000

HTTP/2 200 
content-encoding: gzip
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
last-modified: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:52:50 GMT
date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:53:24 GMT
set-cookie: fly_geo={"countryCode": "us"}; max-age=604800; path=/; domain=.cnet.com; Secure;
set-cookie: fly_device=desktop; max-age=604800; path=/; domain=.cnet.com; Secure;
set-cookie: fly_zip=30303; max-age=604800; path=/; domain=.cnet.com; Secure;
set-cookie: country_code=us; max-age=604800; path=/; domain=.cnet.com; Secure; SameSite=Lax;
set-cookie: state_code=ga; max-age=604800; path=/; domain=.cnet.com; Secure; SameSite=Lax;
vary: Accept-Encoding, User-Agent
cache-control: max-age=300, private
strict-transport-security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
accept-ranges: bytes
content-length: 228786

DNS Lookup ▼

DNS entries (Domain Name System) are a critical component of the Internet infrastructure. They act as directories that translate human-readable domain names (such as example.com) to machine-readable IP addresses. DNS records are stored on DNS servers and help forward internet traffic efficiently.

Type	Ip	Target/Txt	TTL
SOA			21600
	Mname	ns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com
	Rname	cloud-dns-hostmaster.google.com
	Serial Number	1
	Refresh	21600
	Retry	3600
	Expire	259200
	Minimum TTL	300
MX		cnet-com.mail.protection.outlook.com	300
TXT		google-site-verification=rQqGHsJIjA9wmYW8k4YAiLcWdcJd77pGC8EIWhrP0qs	300
TXT		ir-site-verification-token value=900181015	300
TXT		_globalsign-domain-verification=x1xf11ih41J9GiXJP5TJq4IVRSE9HWVASq1KdJeTrL	300
TXT		canva-site-verification=G7ihdyEI2rolcwaQUBtcCw	300
TXT		e4e5e1b458c446cca3fda29ced9be07c	300
TXT		google-site-verification=MbQwFuGjNNcNtmz1CXsyNcB9YJUHSFdOg5y21kvFCtY	300
TXT		webgains-site-verification=6vbztyvm	300
TXT		google-site-verification=efvdqAz-LxQHowGUSZ-r5uahun7JFtmGaJhnQg5iAEo	300
TXT		knowbe4-site-verification=f250b2a70f1bef3a0d3e9e990a25ada0	300
TXT		globalsign-domain-verification=KaParXxs1OHDy7o8CMbPpHBN-2m_mzwdPqKMMQ66a6	300
TXT		MS=ms94282196	300
TXT		google-site-verification=cPMQ_WlZoW1tAiJpzqYi8aWgUhiKKBnK0e1NBsxS53g	300
TXT		google-site-verification=qDwXOZ4eWvl1KaOHkusN1nG-c9QOCY9SIegFUl8Ze-0	300
TXT		google-site-verification=qEXI3w15YN6-EUSOeDkItVYWRt-xBoorxXNGU_e_mBM	300
TXT		amazonses:IkTmduYpaH0WwFy3rGF9LapU5r9lAMSfIbFXVAGJjds=	300
TXT		adobe-idp-site-verification=b6e27597198dfc9921fbe2ad78e9a76012bb17d0ddb65389e600ecb80de9a555	300
TXT		_globalsign-domain-verification=6CefEhdXpSEvPRuTfkeYdvQ_0ij6wKrIcTTNPwKRvH	300
TXT		v=spf1 ip4:64.30.227.218 ip4:64.30.226.54/31 ip4:74.125.148.0/22 ip4:216.239.125.28/23 ip4:202.73.54.176/28 ip4:58.65.7.128/28 ip4:62.108.138.0/28 ip4:216.239.114.214/23 ip4:216.239.114.222/23 include:_spf.google.com include:spf-00262c01.pphosted.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ~all	300
TXT		atlassian-domain-verification=dXpMb6IBZlmK7X42/O28YWyiXYn0+90NDFEfrPsBAoAoUsAoDiuicnQAmjbUiyVB	300
TXT		_globalsign-domain-verification=P6EsEBcaHaQ2gnEgaZ6eVvT6wNieiCAIfZEOugGLHt	300
A	34.149.196.126		86276
NS		ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com	300
NS		ns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com	300
NS		ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com	300
NS		ns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com	300

Whois Lookup ▼

Domain WHOIS is a public database that provides information about domain names, including registered owners, contact information, domain registrars, registration and expiration dates, name servers, and other relevant information. Domain registration for this website began on March 5, 1994 and will expire on March 6, 2025 if not renewed. This website is now assigned through the registrar GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC. The WHOIS data for this website's domain was last updated on February 7, 2024.

Domain Created:: 1994-03-05
Domain Expires:: 2025-03-06
Domain Updated:: 2024-02-07
Domain Age:: 30 years 1 months 13 days
Domain Registrar:: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
Domain Owner:: Brandsight Privacy Customer 130010
WhoIs:

Domain Name: cnet.com
Registry Domain ID: 1887422_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.brandsight.com
Registrar URL: https://gcd.com
Updated Date: 2024-02-07T23:01:21Z
Creation Date: 1994-03-05T05:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2025-03-06T05:00:00Z
Registrar: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 3786
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: 
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.5188315864
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: serverDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry
Registrant Name: Brandsight Privacy Customer 130010
Registrant Organization: 
Registrant Street: PO Box 190899
Registrant City: Boise
Registrant State/Province: ID
Registrant Postal Code: 83719
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.2084252575
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: 
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: 
Registry Admin ID: Not Available From Registry
Admin Name: Brandsight Privacy Customer 130010
Admin Organization: 
Admin Street: PO Box 190899
Admin City: Boise
Admin State/Province: ID
Admin Postal Code: 83719
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.2084252575
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: 
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: 
Registry Tech ID: Not Available From Registry
Tech Name: Brandsight Privacy Customer 130010
Tech Organization: 
Tech Street: PO Box 190899
Tech City: Boise
Tech State/Province: ID
Tech Postal Code: 83719
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.2084252575
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: 
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: 
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-A1.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-A2.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-A3.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-A4.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2024-04-02T17:55:27Z

Cnet.com

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cnet.com Traffic Analysis

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Revenue report ▼

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Daily revenue loss by country

How much is cnet.com worth?

Ad Experience Report ▼

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Abusive Experience Report ▼

Where is cnet.com hosted? ▼

Other sites hosted on 34.149.196.126

How fast does cnet.com load? ▼

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Does cnet.com use compression? ▼

Google Safe Browsing ▼

MyWot.com Reputation Ratings

SSL Checker - SSL Certificate Verify ▼

Verify HTTP/2 Support ▼

Site Categories ▼

What sites are related to cnet.com? ▼

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