plos.org
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Advocates the free distribution of science and medical published articles.
Statistics Summary for plos.org
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Global Rank
An estimate of plos.org's popularity. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to plos.org and pageviews on plos.org over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1. Learn more. Updated Daily |
37,300 Rank in
US
An estimate of plos.org's popularity in a specific country. The rank by country is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to plos.org and pageviews on plos.org 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. Updated Daily |
Sites Linking In
A measure of plos.org's reputation. The number of links to plos.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 plos.org:
| Traffic Rank | Change | ||
| 7 day | 90,921 | -6,245 | |
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| 1 month | 82,320 | +2,849 | |
| 3 month | 61,141 | -12,149 | |
Estimated percentage of global pageviews on plos.org:
| Pageviews | Change | ||
| 7 day | 0.000035 | -10% | |
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| 1 month | 0.00004 | +1% | |
| 3 month | 0.000051 | +23% | |
Estimated percentage of global internet users who visit plos.org:
| Reach | Change | ||
| 7 day | 0.0025 | +20% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | 0.0026 | -0.9% | |
| 3 month | 0.0036 | +21% | |
Estimated percentage of visits to plos.org that consist of a single pageview:
| Bounce % | Change | ||
| 7 day | 74.6 | +11% | |
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| 1 month | 73.8 | +10% | |
| 3 month | 74.4 | -1% | |
Estimated daily unique pageviews per user for plos.org:
| Pageviews/User | Change | ||
| 7 day | 1.5 | -30% | |
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| 1 month | 1.59 | +2% | |
| 3 month | 1.5 | +2% | |
Estimated daily time on site (mm:ss) for plos.org:
| Time on Site | Change | ||
| 7 day | 01:48 | -21% | |
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| 1 month | 01:53 | -10% | |
| 3 month | 02:06 | +21% | |
Estimated percentage of visits to plos.org that came from a search engine:
| Search % | Change | ||
| 7 day | 11.9 | -24% | |
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| 1 month | 14.3 | -7% | |
| 3 month | 11.2 | -30% | |
Average Load Time for Plos.org
Average (1.339 Seconds), 53% of sites are slower.
Plos.orgs Regional Traffic Ranks
Country
Rank
30,582
31,532
34,331
37,300
55,919
Where Visitors Go on Plos.org
Subdomain
Percent of Visitors
blogs.plos.org
71.74%
plos.org
25.98%
dx.plos.org
2.64%
mail1.plos.org
1.45%
Audience Snapshot
Top Search Queries for Plos.org
| Query | Percent of Search Traffic |
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| 1 | plos one | 5.40% |
| 2 | plos | 3.06% |
| 3 | steve jobs buddhist | 1.85% |
| 4 | felices fiestas | 1.73% |
| 5 | writing a book | 1.29% |
| 6 | the clap | 1.12% |
| 7 | restaurant critic sites | 0.68% |


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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 | 14.3% |
| Last 7 days | 11.9% |
| Yesterday | - |
Top Queries from Search Traffic
The top queries driving traffic to plos.org from search engines. Updated monthly.
| Query | Percent of Search Traffic |
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| 1 | plos one | 5.40% |
| 2 | plos | 3.06% |
| 3 | steve jobs buddhist | 1.85% |
| 4 | felices fiestas | 1.73% |
| 5 | writing a book | 1.29% |
| 6 | the clap | 1.12% |
| 7 | restaurant critic sites | 0.68% |
| 8 | plos biology | 0.66% |
| 9 | rebecca watson | 0.64% |
| 10 | bristol university | 0.64% |


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Search Traffic on the Rise and Decline
The top queries from search engines driving relatively more/less traffic to plos.org in the current month than the previous month. Updated monthly.
| Search Query | 1 Month Increase
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| 1 | steve jobs buddhist | 1.83% |
| 2 | felices fiestas | 1.73% |
| 3 | plos one | 0.76% |
| 4 | male circumcision hiv/aids prevention | 0.75% |
| 5 | bristol university | 0.64% |
| 6 | scientific american | 0.40% |
| 7 | create account | 0.40% |
| 8 | podcast | 0.31% |
| 9 | have access to | 0.28% |
| 10 | requiescat in pace | 0.23% |
| Search Query | 1 Month Decline
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| 1 | plos | 1.89% |
| 2 | restaurant critic sites | 1.30% |
| 3 | accidents on roads | 1.13% |
| 4 | writing a book | 0.72% |
| 5 | tips on writing a book | 0.32% |
| 6 | retort | 0.27% |
| 7 | plos biology | 0.24% |
| 8 | science journal | 0.19% |
| 9 | melbourne news | 0.19% |
| 10 | the clap | 0.17% |
Search Advertising Metrics Highlights
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High Impact Search Queries for plos.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 plos.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 plos.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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| plos one | 13.84 | 41 | 20 |
| writing a book | 10.88 | 26 | 62 |
| felices fiestas | 4.36 | 53 | 20 |
| plos | 4.05 | 28 | 10 |
| write a book | 3.24 | 26 | 59 |
| how to write a book | 3.02 | 34 | 54 |
| steve jobs buddhist | 2.33 | 26 | 10 |
| the clap | 2.02 | 30 | 14 |
| rebecca watson | 1.66 | 29 | 20 |
| water mlm | 1.43 | 7 | 77 |
| tips for writing a book | 1.39 | 10 | 60 |
| scientific american | 1.24 | 41 | 25 |
| bristol university | 1.23 | 30 | 15 |
| a book | 1.17 | 22 | 13 |
| impact factor plos | 1.16 | 8 | 60 |
| create account | 1.08 | 25 | 22 |
| podcast | 1.01 | 50 | 24 |
| tips on writing a book | 0.93 | 13 | 26 |
| journals | 0.88 | 32 | 44 |
| every one | 0.77 | 23 | 30 |
| susan kare | 0.65 | 20 | 20 |
| public library of science | 0.65 | 14 | 10 |
| library science | 0.63 | 22 | 34 |
| public library | 0.60 | 29 | 23 |
| open access | 0.59 | 28 | 14 |
| write your book | 0.59 | 11 | 55 |
| blog posting sites | 0.58 | 34 | 36 |
| plos pathogens | 0.56 | 25 | 15 |
| steve jobs | 0.56 | 68 | 13 |
| united airline | 0.55 | 38 | 23 |
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Activity by plos.org
Ads for plos.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 plos.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 Plos.org
Relative to the general internet population how popular is plos.org with each audience below?
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Advanced Demographics for plos.org
Audience breakdown by income, ethnicity, age, education, gender, children and browsing location.
Visitors by Country for Plos.org
Country
Percent of Visitors
35.7%
13.4%
5.3%
4.9%
4.5%
4.5%
4.2%
3.4%
3.0%
2.5%
4.5%
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2.5%


37,300
Australia
Pakistan
Canada
India
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Germany
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