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Global Rank
An estimate of cato.org's popularity. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to cato.org and pageviews on cato.org over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1. Learn more. Updated Daily |
12,556 Rank in
US
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Sites Linking In
A measure of cato.org's reputation. The number of links to cato.org 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. Updated Monthly |
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Traffic rank for cato.org:
| Traffic Rank | Change | ||
| 7 day | 44,826 | -1,135 | |
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| 1 month | 47,342 | +750 | |
| 3 month | 47,259 | +1,326 | |
Estimated percentage of global pageviews on cato.org:
| Pageviews | Change | ||
| 7 day | 0.000084 | -2% | |
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| 1 month | 0.000076 | +6% | |
| 3 month | 0.000074 | +3% | |
Estimated percentage of global internet users who visit cato.org:
| Reach | Change | ||
| 7 day | 0.0046 | +6% | |
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| 1 month | 0.0045 | +0.2% | |
| 3 month | 0.0044 | -5% | |
Estimated percentage of visits to cato.org that consist of a single pageview:
| Bounce % | Change | ||
| 7 day | 59.6 | -11% | |
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| 1 month | 66.9 | -2% | |
| 3 month | 67 | -3% | |
Estimated daily unique pageviews per user for cato.org:
| Pageviews/User | Change | ||
| 7 day | 1.9 | -8% | |
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| 1 month | 1.8 | +6% | |
| 3 month | 1.76 | +8% | |
Estimated daily time on site (mm:ss) for cato.org:
| Time on Site | Change | ||
| 7 day | 02:53 | +3% | |
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| 1 month | 02:33 | +8% | |
| 3 month | 02:26 | +10% | |
Estimated percentage of visits to cato.org that came from a search engine:
| Search % | Change | ||
| 7 day | 7.8 | -10% | |
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| 1 month | 10.4 | -22% | |
| 3 month | 12.3 | -49% | |
Average Load Time for Cato.org
Average (1.532 Seconds), 55% of sites are faster.
Cato.orgs Regional Traffic Ranks
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Rank
12,556
31,424
34,479
34,581
59,356
123,139
Where Visitors Go on Cato.org
Subdomain
Percent of Visitors
cato.org
99.63%
Audience Snapshot
Top Search Queries for Cato.org
| Query | Percent of Search Traffic |
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| 1 | what is the debt ceiling | 4.88% |
| 2 | ethanol gasoline | 4.57% |
| 3 | cato | 3.93% |
| 4 | social security | 3.27% |
| 5 | zimbabwe inflation | 0.57% |
| 6 | moral hazard | 0.49% |
| 7 | what is debt ceiling | 0.38% |


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Search Traffic
The percentage of site visits from search engines.
| Period | Percent of Site Traffic |
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| Last 30 days | 10.4% |
| Last 7 days | 7.8% |
| Yesterday | 10.5% |
Top Queries from Search Traffic
The top queries driving traffic to cato.org from search engines. Updated monthly.
| Query | Percent of Search Traffic |
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| 1 | what is the debt ceiling | 4.88% |
| 2 | ethanol gasoline | 4.57% |
| 3 | cato | 3.93% |
| 4 | social security | 3.27% |
| 5 | zimbabwe inflation | 0.57% |
| 6 | moral hazard | 0.49% |
| 7 | what is debt ceiling | 0.38% |
| 8 | private refinery reduce pump price | 0.36% |
| 9 | economist walt forgol | 0.32% |
| 10 | posse comitatus | 0.30% |


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Search Traffic on the Rise and Decline
The top queries from search engines driving relatively more/less traffic to cato.org in the current month than the previous month. Updated monthly.
| Search Query | 1 Month Increase
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| 1 | ethanol gasoline | 1.82% |
| 2 | social security | 0.63% |
| 3 | private refinery reduce pump price | 0.36% |
| 4 | economist walt forgol | 0.32% |
| 5 | powermet south africa | 0.25% |
| 6 | zimbabwe inflation | 0.24% |
| 7 | with due respect to state that | 0.21% |
| 8 | global warming.pdf | 0.16% |
| 9 | gupta s. davoodi h. alonso-terme r. | 0.16% |
| 10 | fg to disburse 30 billion nas | 0.16% |
| Search Query | 1 Month Decline
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| 1 | what is the debt ceiling | 5.49% |
| 2 | cato | 1.26% |
| 3 | cato institute | 0.70% |
| 4 | removal of subsidy will save nigeria | 0.15% |
| 5 | cartoon network | 0.11% |
| 6 | chris edwards | 0.10% |
| 7 | dan mitchell | 0.07% |
| 8 | regulator boats | 0.06% |
| 9 | libertarian movies | 0.06% |
| 10 | nato hungary | 0.06% |
Search Advertising Metrics Highlights
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High Impact Search Queries for cato.orgPopular 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. |
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A phrase that drives traffic to cato.org 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
A high value indicates that cato.org 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
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
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 |
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| social security | 17.71 | 55 | 33 |
| cato | 11.96 | 38 | 19 |
| ethanol gasoline | 9.69 | 41 | 13 |
| what is the debt ceiling | 7.91 | 40 | 10 |
| cato institute | 5.69 | 31 | 13 |
| the debt ceiling | 3.68 | 19 | 13 |
| what is debt | 1.39 | 19 | 40 |
| zimbabwe inflation | 1.15 | 20 | 13 |
| what is debt ceiling | 0.93 | 19 | 15 |
| obamacare | 0.85 | 36 | 40 |
| moral hazard | 0.79 | 33 | 12 |
| education in america | 0.74 | 26 | 30 |
| south africa | 0.69 | 45 | 31 |
| tarp cato | 0.61 | 5 | 90 |
| health care costs | 0.57 | 20 | 51 |
| education in | 0.55 | 3 | 50 |
| libertarian | 0.54 | 39 | 16 |
| too big to fail | 0.54 | 40 | 23 |
| limited government | 0.53 | 19 | 50 |
| zeroing | 0.53 | 16 | 50 |
| cost of education | 0.49 | 8 | 60 |
| health care | 0.48 | 40 | 59 |
| american guns | 0.47 | 33 | 90 |
| jim powell | 0.42 | 14 | 15 |
| policy analysis | 0.42 | 17 | 28 |
| nanny state | 0.39 | 19 | 32 |
| private health care | 0.37 | 16 | 61 |
| immigration | 0.36 | 47 | 50 |
| regulation | 0.33 | 29 | 27 |
| what is stimulus | 0.32 | 15 | 50 |
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Activity by cato.org
Ads for cato.org have appeared on major search engines when people performed the queries below. Click on the queries below to discover more information.
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Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Opportunities for cato.orgQueries 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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Audience Demographics for Cato.org
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Advanced Demographics for cato.org
Audience breakdown by income, ethnicity, age, education, gender, children and browsing location.
Visitors by Country for Cato.org
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