Website Rank Checker
Look up any domain's global popularity rank using the open Tranco research list, a reproducible top-one-million ranking built for accuracy rather than advertising.
About Website Rank Checker
Enter a domain and this tool returns its position in the global top one million most popular domains. The result is shown as a rank number, where lower is more popular and #1 is the most visited site on the list. If the domain falls outside the top million it is reported as "Not in top 1M", which is the normal outcome for the vast majority of registered domains.
The ranking source is Tranco, an open list published at tranco-list.eu for the research community. Rather than relying on a single provider's traffic estimate for one day, Tranco aggregates several underlying popularity rankings over a period of time. That averaging makes the list reproducible and far more resistant to short-term manipulation than a raw daily ranking, which is why security researchers and academics favour it. It is free to use and requires no account.
The lookup runs on our EU servers. The full list is self-hosted locally, streamed line by line so it never has to be held in memory, and each result is cached for twenty-four hours. No third-party ranking API is contacted, so checking a domain does not reveal your query to an outside analytics service.
Treat the rank as a relative measure of cross-site popularity, not a count of your own visits. It is well suited to benchmarking against competitors, gauging the reach of a vendor, vetting an unfamiliar domain before you link to or partner with it, and prioritising which sites to examine in abuse or reputation research. For precise traffic figures on your own site, use your analytics; use rank for comparison.
How to use it
- 1Enter a registered domain, such as example.eu, without the http:// prefix. The apex or registrable domain gives the most reliable match.
- 2Click Check rank.
- 3Read the global position, shown as a #number, or the "Not in top 1M" message if the domain is not on the list.
- 4Run several domains in turn to compare competitors side by side.
Common use cases
- -Benchmarking your site's popularity against direct competitors
- -Vetting a domain's reputation before linking to it, partnering, or accepting a backlink
- -Gauging the reach of a vendor, SaaS provider or news source
- -Prioritising which domains to investigate in security, phishing or abuse research
- -Getting a quick sanity check on whether a domain is a major, widely used site
Frequently asked questions
- What is the Tranco ranking?
- Tranco is an open, research-oriented ranking of the top one million domains, published at tranco-list.eu. It combines several popularity lists over a period of time to produce a result that is reproducible and resistant to day-to-day manipulation.
- How is website rank calculated?
- This tool reports a domain's position in the Tranco top-1M list, where #1 is the most popular. The ranking aggregates multiple underlying data sources rather than measuring your traffic directly, so it reflects relative cross-site popularity.
- Why does my domain show "Not in top 1M"?
- Only the one million most popular domains are ranked. If your site is not listed it simply falls outside that range, which is true of most domains on the internet and is not a sign of any problem.
- Is this the same as Alexa rank?
- No. The Alexa ranking was discontinued in 2022. Tranco is an independent, openly documented research list designed for reproducibility, and it is the source this tool uses.
- Is website rank the same as my exact traffic?
- No. Rank is a relative measure of popularity across domains, not a count of your visits. Use your own analytics for precise traffic figures and use rank for comparison and benchmarking.
- Where does the lookup run?
- On our EU servers. The Tranco list is self-hosted locally and streamed on demand, with results cached for twenty-four hours, so no third-party ranking API is contacted.