High-traffic sites less than a year old

These numbers are wild

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Ian H
February 27, 2025

This website was launched 9 months ago. It now pulls in a consistent 400,000 visitors every month.

This level of traffic is pretty unheard of for a brand new site. Especially organic Google traffic.

Still, there are actually lots of young sites with super high organic traffic.

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How to find young sites with high traffic

The quickest way (by far) is to filter a database of sites.

Site Stats Database is perfect for this. It has over 400,000 websites, including 1,000+ that were launched less than a year ago.

You just set the Date Registered filter to a year ago, and sort by highest traffic. Done.

The alternative is to gather a list of sites on your own and bulk check the registration dates, then filter by sites less than a year old. You’d then need to bulk check the traffic. Time-consuming, tedious, and pricey. Ask me how I know lol.

I built Site Stats Database to dramatically reduce the time it takes to do stuff like this.

Revealing a few high-traffic, young sites…

Spencer Haws of Niche Pursuits published a video today revealing 4 high-traffic sites that are less than a year old.

I actually helped by putting together the list of sites, which I found using Site Stats Database.

One of the sites featured in the video is the one getting 400,000 monthly visitors I shared at the beginning of this email.

You can watch his video here:

When I was doing research for the video, I found lots more sites than those four.

Including this one, which gets a whopping 1.6 million monthly visitors:

This site is marvelrivals.gg.

I don’t know anything about the niche, so this is what Wikipedia says:

“Marvel Rivals is a 2024 third-person hero shooter video game developed and published by NetEase Games in collaboration with Marvel Games. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on December 6, 2024.”

The game was launched in December 2024. The site above had nearly 2 million visitors in December. Absolutely wild!

But how much money does it make?

Assuming a $5 RPM, the site is likely earning over $22,000/mo from ads:

Not bad for a 3 month old website lol.

Are you aware of other games launching soon with a lot of hype? If so, it might not be a bad idea to launch a website about it ASAP. Even if the game hasn’t been released yet, you could publish rumor articles.

The nice thing about these trend-based websites is that you don’t have to worry about already-established competitors. Your site will be among the first in the niche, and Google will have no choice but to rank you.

Hope this email was inspiring. Thanks for reading!

Ian

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