RationalWiki
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RationalWiki is an online wiki whose stated mission statement is:
- Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement;
- Documenting the full range of crank ideas;
- Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism;
- Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media.
Non-compliance with its non-profit status
RationalWiki and web traffic
See also: RationalWiki and web traffic and RationalWiki and Google referral traffic and Internet atheism
RationalWiki and Google referral traffic as reported by the leading web marketing company SEMRush.com
See also: RationalWiki and Google referral traffic
According to the leading web marketing company SEMRush, RationalWiki has experienced a huge drop in Google referral traffic in the latter part of 2019 and as of September 17, 2025 it receives 36,500 monthly visits via Google referral traffic.
In addition, according to SEMRush, RationalWiki dropped from a 66 domain authority score on October 21, 2023 to a 44 domain authority score on September, 2025. Domains with low domain scores typically have less traffic, less authoritative websites linking to them and more lower quality websites linking to them.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
In addition, according to SEMRush, RationalWiki dropped from a 66 domain authority score on October 21, 2023 to a 44 domain authority score on September, 2025. Domains with low domain scores typically have less traffic, less authoritative websites linking to them and more lower quality websites linking to them.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
According to the leading web marketing company SEMRush, RationalWiki has experienced a huge drop in Google referral traffic in the latter part of 2019 and as of June 30, 2023 it receives 136,000 monthly visits via Google referral traffic.
In addition, according to SEMRush, RationalWiki dropped from a 66 domain authority score on October 21, 2023 to a 43 domain authority score on June 30, 2023. Domains with low domain scores typically have less traffic, less authoritative websites linking to them and more lower quality websites linking to them.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
In addition, according to SEMRush, RationalWiki dropped from a 66 domain authority score on October 21, 2023 to a 43 domain authority score on June 30, 2023. Domains with low domain scores typically have less traffic, less authoritative websites linking to them and more lower quality websites linking to them.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
According to the leading web marketing website SEMRush.com, the website RationalWiki lost a large amount of Google referral traffic from November 2020 to October 21, 2022.
In November 2020, RationalWiki.org was receiving 413,529 web visits a month according to SEMRush.com. On October 21, 2022, RationalWiki.org received 152,236 web visits in the last 30 days according to SEMRush.com. Google referral traffic is commonly referred to as organic traffic by web marketing professionals.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
In November 2020, RationalWiki.org was receiving 413,529 web visits a month according to SEMRush.com. On October 21, 2022, RationalWiki.org received 152,236 web visits in the last 30 days according to SEMRush.com. Google referral traffic is commonly referred to as organic traffic by web marketing professionals.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.