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Alexa Traffic Rank Reputation
Global 1,768
Global Rank Alexa Traffic Rank
An estimate of kotaku.com's popularity.

The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to kotaku.com and pageviews on kotaku.com over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1. Learn more.

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United States Flag 762
Rank in US Traffic Rank in Country
An estimate of kotaku.com's popularity in a specific country.

The rank by country is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to kotaku.com and pageviews on kotaku.com from users from that country over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1 in that country.

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25,648
Sites Linking In Sites Linking In
A measure of kotaku.com's reputation.

The number of links to kotaku.com from sites visited by users in the Alexa traffic panel. Links that were not seen by users in the Alexa traffic panel are not counted. Multiple links from the same site are only counted once.

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3 Stars
12 Reviews
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Traffic rank for kotaku.com:

  Traffic Rank Change
Yesterday 2,133 +292 Change in Traffic Rank over the trailing 1 day period (A positive change means the site is getting less popular)
7 day 2,079 +182 Change in Traffic Rank over the trailing 7 day period (A positive change means the site is getting less popular)
1 month 1,825 +46 Change in Traffic Rank over the trailing 1 month period (A positive change means the site is getting less popular)
3 month 1,768 -178 Change in Traffic Rank over the trailing 3 month period (A negative change means the site is getting more popular)

Estimated percentage of global pageviews on kotaku.com:

  Pageviews Change
Yesterday 0.00164 -7% Change in Pageviews over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 0.00155 -12% Change in Pageviews over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 0.001798 -1.7% Change in Pageviews over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 0.001887 +7.6% Change in Pageviews over the trailing 3 month period

Estimated percentage of global internet users who visit kotaku.com:

  Reach Change
Yesterday 0.074 -14% Change in Reach over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 0.076 -5% Change in Reach over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 0.0845 +1% Change in Reach over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 0.0855 +13.4% Change in Reach over the trailing 3 month period

Estimated percentage of visits to kotaku.com that consist of a single pageview:

  Bounce % Change
Yesterday 59.4 -1% Change in Bounce % over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 61.8 +2% Change in Bounce % over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 60.8 +1% Change in Bounce % over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 59.8 +5% Change in Bounce % over the trailing 3 month period

Estimated daily unique pageviews per user for kotaku.com:

  Pageviews/User Change
Yesterday 2.4 +8% Change in Pageviews/User over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 2.16 -7% Change in Pageviews/User over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 2.25 -3% Change in Pageviews/User over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 2.31 -5.3% Change in Pageviews/User over the trailing 3 month period

Estimated daily time on site (mm:ss) for kotaku.com:

  Time on Site Change
Yesterday 03:41 +13% Change in Time on Site over the trailing 1 day period
7 day 03:13 -9% Change in Time on Site over the trailing 7 day period
1 month 03:24 -5% Change in Time on Site over the trailing 1 month period
3 month 03:36 -9% Change in Time on Site over the trailing 3 month period
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Average Load Time for Kotaku.com

Average (1.214 Seconds), 59% of sites are slower.

Where Visitors Go on Kotaku.com

Subdomain

Percent of Visitors

kotaku.com

92.92%

blog.kotaku.com

16.79%

cache.kotaku.com

3.81%

us.kotaku.com

0.87%

ca.kotaku.com

0.43%

uk.kotaku.com

0.35%

m.kotaku.com

0.08%

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Audience Snapshot

Top Search Queries for Kotaku.com


Based on internet averages, kotaku.com is visited more frequently by males who are in the age range 18-24, have no children, received some college education and browse this site from school.
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Query Percent of Search Traffic
1 kotaku 7.10%
2 do a barrel roll 1.95%
3 skyrim 0.49%
4 skyrim patch 0.32%
5 network password lost after restart 0.31%
6 steam forums 0.29%
7 xbox live down 0.25%

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Search Traffic

The percentage of site visits from search engines.

Period Percent of Site Traffic
Last 30 days 5.6%
Last 7 days 5.5%
Yesterday 6.1%
 
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Search Traffic on the Rise and Decline

The top queries from search engines driving relatively more/less traffic to kotaku.com in the current month than the previous month. Updated monthly.

Search Query 1 Month Increase The change in percentage of search traffic to kotaku.com for each query.
1 network password lost after restart 0.31%
2 skyrim patch 0.28%
3 xbox live down 0.21%
4 the last of us 0.20%
5 club nintendo 0.19%
6 cartoon network punch time explosion voice acting 0.14%
7 arrow to the knee 0.12%
8 humble bundle 0.12%
9 skyrim forums 0.11%
10 price of ps3 in nigeria 0.11%
Search Query 1 Month Decline The change in percentage of search traffic to kotaku.com for each query.
1 kotaku 1.01%
2 skyrim 0.36%
3 skyrim map 0.23%
4 skyrim trailer 0.13%
5 final combat 0.12%
6 sonic generations 0.10%
7 do a barrel roll 0.10%
8 steam hacked 0.10%
9 microsoft 0.09%
10 minecon 0.08%



Search Advertising Metrics Highlights

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High Impact Search Queries for kotaku.com

Popular queries that are relevant to this site and are actively targeted by competitors advertising on search engines. Click on queries below to discover who is advertising for these queries.

Query Query
A phrase that drives traffic to “kotaku.com” from search engines. This list also includes sub-phrases that account for a high percentage of this site's search traffic broken out separately. For example, if the site receives traffic for 'buy diamond ring', 'diamond necklace', and 'diamond bracelet', the word 'diamond' might also appear in the list. 		Impact Factor Impact Factor
A high value indicates that “kotaku.com” is getting significant organic search traffic for queries containing these phrases, despite high advertising competition for these phrases.

Impact Factor is a combined measurement of the importance of a particular phrase to the site's search traffic and the level of search engine advertising competition (QCI). The index is on a scale of 0 to 100.

Updated Monthly 		Query Popularity Query Popularity
An estimate of how frequently users search for these keywords, on a scale from 0 to 100. Higher numbers indicate higher frequencies.

Updated Monthly 		QCI The Query Competition Index
QCI indicates the typical number of ads displayed for keyword searches on major search engines. A large number of ads indicates strong advertising competition for a query. The index is on a scale from 0 to 100.

Updated Monthly
kotaku 29.03 53 17
do a barrel 2.82 35 10
skyrim 1.26 65 15
xbox live down 1.23 30 19
barrel roll 1.22 45 11
tribes ascend 1.16 39 40
the knee 1.03 12 83
xbox live 1.00 58 24
skyrim gameplay 0.84 47 20
skyrim patch 0.83 45 10
nba 2k12 0.78 50 15
steam forums 0.72 43 10
club nintendo 0.62 43 12
wii motion plus 0.58 39 57
skyward sword 0.56 46 18
king of the nerds 0.55 27 18
gta v 0.55 49 15
rocksmith 0.53 46 21
halo reach ranks 0.53 38 30
skyrim map 0.51 43 10
tiny tower 0.50 42 12
dead island demo 0.49 34 10
skyrim manual 0.48 28 10
call of duty 0.46 58 25
ps vita 0.44 57 13
batman arkham city 0.42 56 17
rage demo 0.41 30 60
do a barrel roll google 0.41 43 20
arrow in the knee 0.40 36 20
assassins creed ps2 0.37 22 28
 

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Activity by kotaku.com

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Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Opportunities for kotaku.com

Queries that provide opportunities for this site to advertise through Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to get more traffic. They are popular queries that are relevant to the site, and have low competition in search engine marketing. Learn More Many sites are actively advertising in search engines for the most valuable search queries. This high level of competition tends to result in high advertising costs, which makes it difficult to find attractive advertising opportunities. These opportunities may still exist, however, by looking at the "long tail". The long tail contains search queries with lower Query Popularity, but such queries also tend to have lower QCI. By advertising for many of these queries, sites may still be able to manage an effective search engine marketing campaign. Note that not all queries on the long tail may be very relevant to this site, but this list may contain a number of strong advertising candidates.

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About kotaku.com (in its own words) Quoted from kotaku.com's About Us and similar pages.

Earlier this year, Kotaku began running its reviews under a unified template that was designed with a trio of key components in mind. First, there would be no alphabetical or numerical review scores. Second, reviews would be focused on delivering the most critical information in the most efficient way possible. Third, they should be fun to read and hopefully foster conversation about a game's positives and negatives. ... About - Kotaku


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Review Summary for kotaku.com

3 Stars
(based on 12 reviews)
1 out of 6 people would recommend this site to a friend.

5 stars (4)
4 stars (1)
3 stars (0)
2 stars (3)
1 stars (4)
Likes
Active community3
Easy to navigate2
Good content1
Site is fast and responsive1
Dislikes
Hard to navigate3
Poor customer support3
Site is slow and unresponsive3


Reviews for kotaku.com

I would not recommend
this site to a friend
relyoo (Casual Visitor)

The best use of this site is Gaming.

Likes
  • Active community
Dislikes
  • Other

Comments: I've had a love/hate relationship with Kotaku for a few years now. At first I liked it, because it's a good looking site with a talented staff. Then I started noticing some questionable things like demoting commenters who disagree with certain articles, incredibly biased perspectives in news stories, and the plethora of non-gaming posts that are obviously aimed at 12 year-old boys. I can only speak for myself but I don't really think that pictures of mostly nude women or irrelevant posts on Japan just because one of their writers lives in Japan, have any place on a gaming blog. Kotaku is an attractive site with a couple decent writers but if you have a voice and you're looking for a site where that voice can be heard rather than punished for speaking your opinion, go somewhere else. For gamers, Kotaku can only loosely be considered a gaming blog, there are far better options out there that offer news without having to sift through some halfwit writer's opinions.

I would not recommend
this site to a friend
vetlenm (Casual Visitor)

The best use of this site is Entertainment.

Likes
  • Active community
Dislikes
  • Hard to navigate
  • Poor customer support
  • Site is slow and unresponsive

Comments: Kotaku is a superficial, sensationalist blog with lots of advertisements disguised as 'news' and scantily clad Japanese women, trying to rope in some readers. The design is poor, it's very difficult to find anything beyond the newest articles, and they treat their users (or 'peasants') with a complete and utter lack of respect, as seen by the Gawker password leak. If you are going to use Kotaku, I strongly suggest not registering for an account. If you do, you should probably use bogus information, including a password and email address you don't use anywhere else.

I would not recommend
this site to a friend
johnsmith12 (Enthusiast)

The best use of this site is Gaming.

Dislikes
  • Hard to navigate
  • Poor customer support
  • Site is slow and unresponsive

Comments: Gawker can go to hell. Kotaku used to be a good site, now it's a heaping pile. They post their usual amount of stories still but now at least 50% aren't gaming related or have a very tenuous link at best. Kotaku needs to get back to it's roots or people will start leaving. I for one will not be returning to this site again, not that they will care.
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  • 1 out of 2 people found this review useful.

I would not recommend
this site to a friend
mattmkz (Power Visitor)

The best use of this site is Gaming.

Likes
  • Other
Dislikes
  • Hard to navigate
  • Other
  • Poor customer support
  • Site is slow and unresponsive

Comments: Used to be good, not Kotaku sucks.
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review useful.

I would recommend
this site to a friend
johnerickson44 (Power Visitor)

The best use of this site is Gaming.

Likes
  • Active community
  • Easy to navigate
  • Good content
  • Site is fast and responsive

Comments: Really no complaints about these guys. Active staff keeps updating site with new stories. There is always something new.
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  • 0 out of 1 person found this review useful.

I would not recommend
this site to a friend
  • 2 Stars
  • Meh
  • Aug 17, 2010
hollywoodrs (Casual Visitor)

The best use of this site is Gaming.

Likes
  • Easy to navigate
Dislikes
  • Other

Comments: Kotaku was once a great gaming blog. Now it is just filled with rumors and fluff post's so the writers can get paid for the more they post and get comments on.
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review useful.

I would recommend
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asteria (Casual Visitor)

The best use of this site is Entertainment.

Comments: It's ok for throwaway news. I wouldn't use it for my main videogame news or reviews but it sometimes has a funny or weird new story.
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review useful.

I recommend
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Facebook User says: I love reading Kotaku's blogs, they are very creative. Video game news, blogs, previews, and reviews can all be found here.
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  • 1 out of 3 people found this review useful.

I recommend
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pdot says: Kotaku is an awesome place to get gaming news, interviews, reviews, editorials etc. I love that site!
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gamercity says: Really great stories, enjoy reading it!
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Audience Demographics for Kotaku.com

Relative to the general internet population how popular is kotaku.com with each audience below?

Age

18-24
Relative to the general internet population, 18-24 year olds are greatly over-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
25-34
Relative to the general internet population, 25-34 year olds are over-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
35-44
Relative to the general internet population, 35-44 year olds are under-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
45-54
Relative to the general internet population, 45-54 year olds are greatly under-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
55-64
Relative to the general internet population, 55-64 year olds are greatly under-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
Education

No College
The audience for kotaku.com among people who did not go to college is similar to the general internet population.

Confidence: high
Some College
Relative to the general internet population, people some college education are over-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
College
Relative to the general internet population, people who went to college are over-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
Graduate School
Relative to the general internet population, people who went to graduate school are under-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
Gender

Male
Relative to the general internet population, Males are greatly over-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
Female
Relative to the general internet population, Females are greatly under-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
Has Children

Yes
Relative to the general internet population, people with children are under-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
No
Relative to the general internet population, people without children are over-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
Browsing Location

home
Relative to the general internet population, people browsing from home are over-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
school
Relative to the general internet population, people browsing from school are over-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high
work
Relative to the general internet population, people browsing from work are under-represented at kotaku.com.

Confidence: high

Advanced Demographics for kotaku.com

Audience breakdown by income, ethnicity, age, education, gender, children and browsing location.

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Visitors by Country for Kotaku.com

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High Impact Search Queries for Kotaku.com

Query Impact
1 kotaku High
2 do a barrel Medium
3 skyrim Low
4 xbox live down Low
5 barrel roll Low
6 tribes ascend Low
7 the knee Low

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Top Search Queries for Kotaku.com

Query Percent of Search Traffic
1 kotaku 7.10%
2 do a barrel roll 1.95%
3 skyrim 0.49%
4 skyrim patch 0.32%
5 network password lost after restart 0.31%
6 steam forums 0.29%
7 xbox live down 0.25%

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