npr.org

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npr.org is ranked #499 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 4 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Dec 13, 1993, 32 years, 10 months ago, through MarkMonitor Inc., and is paid up until Dec 12, 2027. Its homepage uses Google Tag Manager and Stripe. It is served through Akamai by Nginx.

Global rank

#499

▲ 7 this week

Domain age

32 years

since Dec 13, 1993

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

91/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#499 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: #464.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where npr.org sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Dec 13, 1993 (32 years, 10 months ago)
Expires: Dec 12, 2027
Registrar: MarkMonitor Inc.
Name servers: ns-1227.awsdns-25.org, ns-139.awsdns-17.com, ns-1580.awsdns-05.co.uk, ns-769.awsdns-32.net
DNSSEC: Not signed

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

Technology stack

Analytics

Payments

CDN

Web servers

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.

91/100

https://www.npr.org/

NPR - Breaking News, Analysis, Music, Arts & Podcasts : NPR

Top stories in the U.S. and world news, politics, health, science, business, music, arts and culture. Nonprofit journalism with a mission. This is NPR.

19 passed · 4 warnings · 0 failed

Content

✓Title59 characters
✓Meta description151 characters
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings53 H2 headings
!Image alt text10 of 144 images have no alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 7,839 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.npr.org/
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen
✓Structured dataMicrodata

Social sharing

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

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-OptionsSet
✓Referrer-PolicySet

Server response

Final URL: https://www.npr.org/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 276 ms (first byte 233 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 906 KB
Compression: gzip

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#931	qualtrics.com	Drupal, Akamai, Nginx
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#8,867	amebaownd.com	AngularJS, Nginx, Google Analytics

Sites ranked near npr.org

Rank	Website	Registered	Built with
#494	shein.com	1998	Vue.js, Cloudflare
#495	dynatrace.com	2004	Nuxt, Vue.js, Amazon CloudFront
#496	anthropic.com	2001	Webflow, Cloudflare
#497	chinamobile.com	1999	—
#498	markmonitor.com	1999	Cloudflare
#500	run.app	2018	—
#501	noaa.gov	1997	Amazon CloudFront
#502	nease.net	1997	—
#503	sina.com.cn	—	Alibaba Cloud CDN, jQuery
#504	newrelic.com	2006	Drupal, Pantheon, Fastly

Questions about npr.org

How popular is npr.org?

npr.org is #499 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is npr.org?

npr.org was registered on Dec 13, 1993, which makes the domain 32 years, 10 months old.

What is npr.org built with?

We detected Google Tag Manager, Stripe, Akamai and Nginx on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of npr.org?

MarkMonitor Inc., according to the registry's RDAP record.