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Trending Websites unwraps top websites across the web— just select an industry and location.

Science
United States

Top websites in the United States (Science Industry)

May 2025

Domain
Visits
Desktop share
Mobile share
MoM
YoY
Main Traffic Source
s
sciencedirect.com
23.33M
71.41%16.66M
28.59%6.67M
↓4.55%↑5.26%Search
p
phys.org
12.05M
6.55%789.75K
93.45%11.26M
↓25.2%↓7.67%Direct
w
wiley.com
10.03M
77.81%7.8M
22.19%2.23M
↓7.11%↓1.55%Direct
s
scitechdaily.com
9.54M
7.1%677.35K
92.9%8.86M
↑9.05%↑11.86%Direct
d
dailygalaxy.com
9.14M
5.76%526.24K
94.24%8.61M
↓0.07%↑41,394.73%Direct
e
elsevier.com
9M
80.07%7.21M
19.93%1.79M
↓2.44%↑5.63%Direct
o
overleaf.com
7.59M
93.7%7.11M
6.3%478.01K
↑4.1%↑18.7%Direct
s
space.com
6.82M
24.91%1.7M
75.09%5.12M
↓20.95%↓16.8%Direct
a
arxiv.org
5.95M
76.42%4.55M
23.58%1.4M
↑16.75%↑10.35%Direct
m
mdpi.com
4.22M
79.51%3.35M
20.49%864.36K
↓5.85%↑0.62%Search
c
census.gov
3.22M
65.53%2.11M
34.47%1.11M
↓10.21%↓16.13%Direct
d
doi.org
2.62M
37.04%968.77K
62.96%1.65M
↑23.08%↑17.8%Direct
c
cloudresearch.com
2.37M
58.53%1.39M
41.47%982.92K
↓6.65%↑39.22%Direct
f
focusgroup.com
2.29M
11.27%258.41K
88.73%2.04M
↑10.82%↓7.74%Direct
o
orcid.org
2.01M
84.61%1.7M
15.39%308.86K
↑15.11%↑29.52%Referral
n
newscientist.com
1.88M
22.87%429.27K
77.13%1.45M
↓4.51%↓21.87%Direct
e
energy.gov
1.55M
64.5%999.89K
35.5%550.3K
↓13.58%↓15.28%Direct
e
earthquaketrack.com
1.26M
11.25%141.59K
88.75%1.12M
↑37.23%↑62.15%Search
p
plos.org
1.19M
72.63%866.53K
27.37%326.59K
↓0.75%↓25.95%Search
c
caltech.edu
1.17M
53.32%623.09K
46.68%545.58K
↓32.18%↑8.17%Direct

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Key terms:

  • Domain — The unique address that identifies a website on the internet.
  • Visits — A metric that reflects the action of an individual accessing a website aka traffic.
  • MoM — Month-over-month (MoM) growth reflects the change in traffic as a percentage of the previous month's traffic stats.
  • YoY — Year-over-year (YoY) growth reflects the change in traffic for the past 12 months as a percentage of the previous 12 months’ traffic stats.
  • Traffic sources — The pathways or channels through which website visitors arrive on a website, such as search engines, social media, or referral links.
  • Direct — Traffic to a website via URLs entered directly into a browser’s search bar, saved bookmarks, or direct links opened from outside a browser (e.g. PDFs or Microsoft Word documents).
  • Referral — Traffic to a site from a click on a hyperlink on another domain (excluding social media platforms, web-based email clients, search engines).
  • Search — Traffic to a site coming directly from a click from search engine non-paid results (For example, Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo).
  • Organic Social — Traffic sent to a domain via posts on social media platforms (For example, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, or YouTube) that were created and published without any paid promotion or advertising.
  • Paid social — Traffic to a website from paid advertisements placed on social media platforms.
  • Paid search — Traffic to a website sent from advertisements shown on a search engine’s results page.
  • Email — Traffic to a website from links embedded inside emails.
  • Display — Traffic to a site from display advertisements, such as banner ads or other visual ad formats.

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