Domain popularity rank

No. It is a relative position: 50,000 means 49,999 domains are ahead, not how many visits it gets. Two domains with close ranks can have very different traffic if the difference sits in the tail of the list, where jumps are big and changes small.

Because it is not among the one million most visited in the world, which is normal: there are hundreds of millions of domains and the list covers a tiny fraction. A local business, a law firm or a niche store can do perfectly well without ever making it. The list measures global popularity, not whether your site does its job.

Tranco publishes a new list every day, computed over the previous thirty days to smooth out spikes. Our function keeps the response for twenty-four hours, so a change from today shows up tomorrow.

It is the most used one since Alexa shut down in 2022. Tranco is maintained by a university research group and combines several measurement sources rather than relying on a single toolbar, which was the historical criticism of Alexa. It is open, reproducible and citable.

That is what the three-domain field is for. Compare the band and the trend rather than the exact number: a competitor at 300,000 and you at 400,000 says little; them climbing every month while you drop does say something.

Every tool measures with different sources and weighs the data its own way. Tranco combines several and smooths them over thirty days; a commercial tool may use its own user panel. The useful thing is to follow one source over time, not to compare sources with each other.

No. The domain is sent to tranco-list.eu from our function on Cloudflare, which returns the response to your browser and caches it for a day so it is not requested twice. Nobody logs who looks up what.