Readership data · updated November 2026

Ars Technicamonthly visitors

Ars Technica gets about 7.1 million visits a month. Publisive Media last checked the figure in November 2026, as a figure from our placement catalogue.

Monthly visits
7.1 million
Unique visitors
Not available
Market
United States and globalarstechnica.com

figure from our placement catalogue, checked November 2026. Estimates, not audited circulation.

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About Ars Technica

Ars Technica has covered technology, science, policy and security since 1998, with long-form reporting that assumes a technically literate reader. Its comment threads are read nearly as closely as its articles.

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What the numbers mean for a feature

These figures describe the whole site. An individual article gets a share of that traffic, not all of it.

It has a reputation for not overstating things, which is precisely why being covered there carries weight with technical readers. For a company whose claims are real and complicated, this is a title that will engage with the detail rather than flatten it.

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Questions

Questions about Ars Technica

01

How many monthly visitors does Ars Technica have?

Ars Technica gets about 7.1 million visits a month. Publisive Media last checked the figure in November 2026, as a figure from our placement catalogue.

02

Will an article in Ars Technica be read by all of those visitors?

No. That is traffic to the whole site. A single article gets a share of it, and its lasting value is that it stays published and appears when people search your name.

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Where do these Ars Technica traffic numbers come from?

This figure is the one recorded in Publisive Media's own placement catalogue, last checked in November 2026. It is an estimate rather than audited circulation, and we do not claim to know which measurement tool produced it, so we say where we got it rather than naming a source we have not verified. We refresh these every few months.

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How do I get featured in Ars Technica?

With Publisive Media you choose Ars Technica, share your story through a short questionnaire, our editorial team writes the feature, you approve every word, and we handle the placement.