mercurynews.com
mercurynews.com is ranked #5,354 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), down 53 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Aug 19, 1996, 30 years, 1 month ago, through GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, and is paid up until Aug 18, 2027. Its homepage uses jQuery, WordPress, Google Fonts and Google Tag Manager. It is served through jsDelivr by Nginx.
Popularity rank
#5,354 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #4,711.
Domain registration
- Registered
- Aug 19, 1996 (30 years, 1 month ago)
- Expires
- Aug 18, 2027
- Registrar
- GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
- Name servers
ns-1021.awsdns-63.net,ns-1070.awsdns-05.org,ns-114.awsdns-14.com,ns-1650.awsdns-14.co.uk- DNSSEC
- Not signed
From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 1, 2026.
Technology stack
Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.
Homepage SEO check
Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.
16 passed · 7 warnings · 0 failed
Content
- !Title91 characters — aim for 15–65
- !Meta description177 characters — aim for 50–170
- !H1 heading2 H1 headings — use one
- ✓Subheadings20 H2 headings
- ✓Image alt textAll 42 images have alt text
- ✓Content lengthAbout 2,167 words
Indexing
- ✓IndexableNo noindex directive
- ✓Canonical URLhttps://www.mercurynews.com
- ✓robots.txtFound
- ✓XML sitemapFound
- ✓Language attributeen-US
- ✓Structured dataNewsMediaOrganization, LocalBusiness
Social sharing
- ✓Open GraphTitle, description and image set
- !Twitter / X cardMissing
Technical
- ✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
- ✓Mobile viewportFound
- ✓FaviconFound
- ✓Character encodingUTF-8
Security headers
- ✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
- ✓Content-Security-PolicySet
- !Clickjacking protectionNot set
- !X-Content-Type-OptionsNot set
- !Referrer-PolicyNot set
Server response
- Final URL
https://www.mercurynews.com/- HTTP status
- 200
- Server
nginx- Response time
- 5.97 s (first byte 5.95 s, from our scanner in a US data centre)
- HTML size
- 290 KB
- Compression
- br
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|---|---|---|
| #5,349 | minecraftservices.com | 2019 |
| #5,350 | ts.net | 1996 |
| #5,351 | myworkday.com | 2004 |
| #5,352 | vaseline.su | — |
| #5,353 | milanuncios.com | 2005 |
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| #5,359 | cointelegraph.com | 2013 |
Questions about mercurynews.com
How popular is mercurynews.com?
mercurynews.com is #5,354 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.
How old is mercurynews.com?
mercurynews.com was registered on Aug 19, 1996, which makes the domain 30 years, 1 month old.
What is mercurynews.com built with?
We detected jQuery, WordPress, Google Fonts, Google Tag Manager, jsDelivr and Nginx on its homepage.
Who is the registrar of mercurynews.com?
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, according to the registry's RDAP record.