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The Points Guy - Maximize your travel.

Domain Summary

What is the traffic rank for Thepointsguy.com?

• Thepointsguy.com ranks #27,029 globally on HypeStat.

What percent of global Internet users visit Thepointsguy.com?

0.0052735% of global Internet users visit Thepointsguy.com

How many people visit Thepointsguy.com each day?

• Thepointsguy.com receives approximately 260K visitors and 477,093 page impressions per day.

Which countries does Thepointsguy.com receive most of its visitors from?

• Thepointsguy.com is mostly visited by people located in United States,Canada,United Kingdom.

How much Thepointsguy.com can earn?

• Thepointsguy.com should earn about $2,275.41/day from advertising revenue.

What is Thepointsguy.com estimated value?

• Estimated value of Thepointsguy.com is $2,305,228.92.

What IP addresses does Thepointsguy.com resolve to?

• Thepointsguy.com resolves to the IP addresses 151.101.194.132.

Where are Thepointsguy.com servers located in?

• Thepointsguy.com has servers located in San Francisco, California, 94107, United States.

thepointsguy.com Profile

Title:The Points Guy - Maximize your travel. Description:Maximize your travel with hands-on travel advice, guides, reviews, deal alerts, and more from The Points Guy. Check out our recommendations so you can travel more often and more comfortably.
Tags:
Category:Travel and Tourism / Other Travel and Tourism
About: ThePointsGuy.com is a popular travel website and online resource that provides information and advice on maximizing travel rewards and points. It was founded in 2010 by Brian Kelly, who is known as "The Points Guy."

The website covers various aspects of travel, with a particular focus on credit card rewards, frequent flyer programs, and loyalty programs offered by airlines, hotels, and other travel providers. ThePointsGuy.com offers reviews, tips, and strategies for earning and redeeming points, finding the best travel deals, and getting the most value out of travel rewards.

ThePointsGuy.com provides updates on changes to loyalty programs, credit card offers, and other travel-related news. It aims to assist readers in navigating the complex world of travel rewards and optimizing their travel experiences. Edit Site Info

What technologies does thepointsguy.com use?

These are the technologies used at thepointsguy.com. thepointsguy.com has a total of 8 technologies installed in 8 different categories.

thepointsguy.com Traffic Analysis

Thepointsguy.com is ranked #27,029 in the world. This website is viewed by an estimated 260K visitors daily, generating a total of 477.1K pageviews. This equates to about 7.9M monthly visitors. Thepointsguy.com traffic has decreased by 8.1% compared to last month.
Daily Visitors260K
6.82%
Monthly Visits7.9M
8.1%
Pages per Visit1.84
9.18%
Visit duration01:34
9.38%
Bounce Rate57.07%
7.72%
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Daily Unique Visitors:
259,981
Monthly Visits:
7,877,424
Pages per Visit:
1.84
Daily Pageviews:
477,093
Avg. visit duration:
01:34
Bounce rate:
57.07%
Global Reach:
0.0052735%
Monthly Visits (SEMrush):
5,523,233
Monthly Unique Visitors (SEMrush):
3,432,990
Monthly Visits (SimilarWeb):
7,646,503
HypeRank:
27,029
SEMrush Rank:
2,058
SimilarWeb Rank:
9,707
*All traffic values are estimates only.

Traffic sources

Direct:
35.11%
Referral:
7.57%
Search:
50.47%
Social:
3.44%
Paid:
3.40%

Desktop vs Mobile

Desktop:
44.26%
Mobile:
55.74%

Total Visits Last 3 Months

8.1M
SEP
8.6M
OCT
7.9M
NOV

Visitors by country

Country
Users%
 
United States 92.31%
 
Canada 1.19%
 
United Kingdom 1.04%
 
Costa Rica 0.38%
 
Australia 0.36%

Where do visitors go on thepointsguy.com?

 
Reach%Pageviews%PerUser
thepointsguy.com
100.00%100.00%5.35

 

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SemRushSemRush
Domain:
  thepointsguy.com
Rank:
(Rank based on keywords, cost and organic traffic)
  2,058
Organic Keywords:
(Number of keywords in top 20 Google SERP)
  1,213,288
Organic Traffic:
(Number of visitors coming from top 20 search results)
  1,325,586
Organic Cost:
((How much need to spend if get same number of visitors from Google Adwords)
  $4,030,047.00

Which sites are competitors to thepointsguy.com?

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Search Engine Indexes

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Google Index:
339,000
Bing Index:
3,100
Baidu Index:
2,630

Revenue report

Google.com would generate approximately $2.3K per day if the source of income were advertisements, which equates to an estimated monthly revenue of $68.3K and annual gross revenue of approximately $830.5K. Based on these figures, the site's net worth is estimated at around $2.3M.

How much would thepointsguy.com make?

Daily Revenue:
$2,275.41
Monthly Revenue:
$68,262.30
Yearly Revenue:
$830,524.65
*All earnings values are estimates only.

Daily earning by country

 
CountryPageviewsEarning
 
United States 440,402$2,127.14
 
Canada 5,697$34.41
 
United Kingdom 4,949$13.26
 
Australia 1,736$8.37
 
Costa Rica 1,826$0.49

Loss of money due to Adblock?

Daily Revenue Loss:
$395.31
Monthly Revenue Loss:
$11,859.40
Yearly Revenue Loss:
$144,289.42
Daily Pageviews Blocked:
81,945
Monthly Pageviews Blocked:
2,458,358
Yearly Pageviews Blocked:
29,910,019

Daily revenue loss by country

 
CountryBlockedLost Money
 
United States 79,272$382.89
 
Canada 1,424$8.60
 
United Kingdom 792$2.12
 
Australia 347$1.67
 
Costa Rica 110$0.03

How much is thepointsguy.com worth?

Website Value:
$2.3M

Ad Experience Report

Summary of the ad experience rating of a website for a specific platform.

Mobile summary

Root domain:
thepointsguy.com
Last Change Time:
(The last time that the site changed status.)
2018-06-20 01:29:16
Ad filtering:
(Chrome is not filtering ads on your site.)
Off
Status:
(The status of the site that is reviewed for the Better Ads Standards.)
Passing

Desktop summary

Root domain:
thepointsguy.com
Last Change Time:
(The last time that the site changed status.)
2018-06-19 04:55:18
Ad filtering:
(Chrome is not filtering ads on your site.)
Off
Status:
(The status of the site that is reviewed for the Better Ads Standards.)
Passing

Abusive Experience Report

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Root domain:
thepointsguy.com
Last Change Time:
(The last time that the site changed status.)
2018-06-20 01:29:16
Enforcement:
(Chrome is not preventing your site from opening new windows or tabs.)
Off
Status:
(The status of the site reviewed for the abusive experiences.)
Passing

Where is thepointsguy.com hosted?

Thepointsguy.com may be hosted in multiple data centers distributed in different locations around the world. This is probably just one of them.
Server IP:
151.101.194.132
ASN:
AS54113 
ISP:
Fastly 
Server Location:
San Francisco
California, CA
94107
United States, US
 

Other sites hosted on 151.101.194.132

How fast does thepointsguy.com load?

The average loading time of thepointsguy.com is 36 ms. The Desktop speed index is 63 and mobile speed index is 30.
Average Load Time:
36 ms

Page Speed (Google PageSpeed Insights) - Desktop

63
0-49 50-89 90-100 i

Field Data

Over the last 30 days, the field data shows that this page has a FAST speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report.We are showing the 90th percentile of FCP and the 95th percentile of FID.

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)1ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 97% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 1%
Time To First Byte (TTFB)500ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 90% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 7% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 2%
First Contentful Paint (FCP)962ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 93% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 4% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 2%
First Input Delay (FID)3ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 97% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 1% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0%
Interaction To Next Paint (INP)31ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 97% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 1% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0%
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)1.5s Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 90% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 5% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 3%

Origin Data

All pages served from this origin have an FAST speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report. over the last 30 days.To view suggestions tailored to each page, analyze individual page URLs.

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)3ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 90% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 3% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 6%
Time To First Byte (TTFB)531ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 84% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 11% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 3%
First Contentful Paint (FCP)1.1s Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 89% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 6% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 3%
First Input Delay (FID)4ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 97% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 1% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0%
Interaction To Next Paint (INP)55ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 95% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 2% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 1%
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)1.4s Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 92% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 5% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 2%

Lab Data

First Contentful Paint 0.4 s
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Largest Contentful Paint 10.9 s
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Timing budget  
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First Meaningful Paint 0.6 s
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Performance budget  
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Lazy load third-party resources with facades  
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Preconnect to required origins  
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Speed Index 5.7 s
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Total Blocking Time 130 ms
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Time to Interactive 7.1 s
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Page Speed (Google PageSpeed Insights) - Mobile

30
0-49 50-89 90-100 i

Field Data

Over the last 30 days, the field data shows that this page has a FAST speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report.We are showing the 90th percentile of FCP and the 95th percentile of FID.

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)8ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 78% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 18% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 2%
Time To First Byte (TTFB)300ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 91% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 3% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 4%
First Contentful Paint (FCP)1.4s Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 84% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 8% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 7%
First Input Delay (FID)15ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 97% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 2% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0%
Interactive To Next Paint (INP)0 Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0%
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)2.1s Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 82% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 10% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 6%

Origin Data

All pages served from this origin have an FAST speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report. over the last 30 days.To view suggestions tailored to each page, analyze individual page URLs.

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)3ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 89% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 5% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 5%
Time To First Byte (TTFB)742ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 75% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 15% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 9%
First Contentful Paint (FCP)1.6s Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 80% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 13% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 6%
First Input Delay (FID)16ms Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 95% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 2% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 1%
Interactive To Next Paint (INP)0 Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 0%
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)2.0s Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 84% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 10% Web Statistics and Analysis | HypeStat 4%

Lab Data

First Contentful Paint 4.6 s
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Max Potential First Input Delay 460 ms
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Largest Contentful Paint 12.0 s
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Timing budget  
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First Meaningful Paint 4.6 s
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Performance budget  
Keep the quantity and size of network requests under the targets set by the provided performance budget. Learn more about performance budgets
First Contentful Paint (3G) 9846 ms
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Preconnect to required origins  
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Time to Interactive 18.8 s
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Lazy load third-party resources with facades  
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Speed Index 7.7 s
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Total Blocking Time 3,110 ms
Sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive, when task length exceeded 50ms, expressed in milliseconds. Learn more about the Total Blocking Time metric
Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`  
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Does thepointsguy.com use compression?

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thepointsguy.com use gzip compression.
Original size: 646.31 KB
Compressed size: 97.74 KB
File reduced by: 548.57 KB (84%)

Google Safe Browsing

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This site is not currently listed as suspicious

MyWot.com Reputation Ratings

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Status:
  SAFE
Safety Reputations:
  70
Safety Confidence:
  7

SSL Checker - SSL Certificate Verify

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 thepointsguy.com supports HTTPS
     
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Common Name: thepointsguy.com
Organization:
Location:
Issuer: R12
Valid from: Dec 8 12:13:03 2025 GMT
Valid until: Mar 8 12:13:02 2026 GMT
Authority: CA:FALSE
Keysize: 2048 Bits
Common Name: R12
Organization: Let's Encrypt
Location: US
Issuer: ISRG Root X1
Valid from: Mar 13 00:00:00 2024 GMT
Valid until: Mar 12 23:59:59 2027 GMT
Authority: CA:TRUE
Keysize: 2048 Bits

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Http Header

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DNS Lookup

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Type Ip Target/Txt TTL
NS ns-1253.awsdns-28.org 8391
NS ns-1856.awsdns-40.co.uk 8391
NS ns-570.awsdns-07.net 8391
NS ns-78.awsdns-09.com 8391

Whois Lookup

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Domain Created:
2009-04-20
Domain Expires:
2026-04-20
Domain Updated:
2025-03-23
Domain Age:
16 years 9 months 16 days
Domain Registrar:
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
Domain Owner:
Brandsight Privacy Customer 279291
WhoIs:
 

   Domain Name: THEPOINTSGUY.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 1552820364_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.brandsight.com
   Registrar URL: http://gcd.com
   Updated Date: 2025-03-23T23:02:05Z
   Creation Date: 2009-04-20T02:49:47Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2026-04-20T02:49:47Z
   Registrar: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
   Registrar IANA ID: 3786
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: email
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.5189669187
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: serverDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited
   Name Server: NS-1253.AWSDNS-28.ORG
   Name Server: NS-1856.AWSDNS-40.CO.UK
   Name Server: NS-570.AWSDNS-07.NET
   Name Server: NS-78.AWSDNS-09.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
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