nationalgeographic.com

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nationalgeographic.com is ranked #1,013 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), down 33 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Oct 10, 1995, 31 years ago, through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., and is paid up until Oct 9, 2027. Its homepage uses Bootstrap. It is served through Amazon CloudFront by Nginx.

Global rank

#1,013

▼ 8 this week

Domain age

31 years

since Oct 10, 1995

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

85/100

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Popularity rank

#1,013 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: #899.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where nationalgeographic.com sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Oct 10, 1995 (31 years ago)
Expires: Oct 9, 2027
Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Name servers: ns106.twdcns.co.uk, ns106.twdcns.com, ns106.twdcns.net, ns106.twdcns.org
DNSSEC: Not signed

From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 1, 2026.

Technology stack

UI frameworks & fonts

Bootstrap

CDN

Amazon CloudFront

Web servers

Nginx

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.

85/100

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/

National Geographic

Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.

17 passed · 5 warnings · 1 failed

Content

✓Title19 characters
✓Meta description86 characters
✕H1 headingMissing in the served HTML
✓Subheadings18 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 20 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 1,482 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen
ihreflang1 language alternates
✓Structured dataWebPage, WebSite, NewsMediaOrganization, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, ItemList

Social sharing

✓Open GraphTitle, description and image set
✓Twitter / X cardsummary

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
✓FaviconFound
✓Character encodingutf-8

Security headers

!Strict-Transport-SecurityNot set
!Content-Security-PolicyNot set
!Clickjacking protectionNot set
!X-Content-Type-OptionsNot set
!Referrer-PolicyNot set

Server response

Final URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 134 ms (first byte 118 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 558 KB
Compression: gzip

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Sites ranked near nationalgeographic.com

Rank	Website	Registered	Built with
#1,008	clever.com	1995	WordPress, WP Engine, Cloudflare
#1,009	ddns.net	2001	—
#1,010	rustore.ru	—	Next.js, React, Envoy
#1,011	hilton.com	1994	—
#1,012	tsyndicate.com	2017	Nginx
#1,014	konami.net	1998	—
#1,015	supabase.co	—	Next.js, React, Vercel
#1,016	bol.com	1997	—
#1,017	onesignal.com	2011	cdnjs, Cloudflare, jsDelivr
#1,018	t2.ru	—	—

Questions about nationalgeographic.com

How popular is nationalgeographic.com?

nationalgeographic.com is #1,013 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is nationalgeographic.com?

nationalgeographic.com was registered on Oct 10, 1995, which makes the domain 31 years old.

What is nationalgeographic.com built with?

We detected Bootstrap, Amazon CloudFront and Nginx on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of nationalgeographic.com?

CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., according to the registry's RDAP record.