Top Science Websites in Canada

Key Insights on Top Science Websites in Canada on December 2025

As of December 2025, umontreal.ca leads Science in Canada with 2.26M monthly visits. Its audience skews desktop-first (57.41% desktop / 57.41% mobile), and traffic is down month over month -13.66% and down year over year -3.77%. sciencedirect.com holds second with 1.94M visits and a desktop-leaning mix (74.46% desktop / 25.54% mobile), while phys.org ranks third with 1.26M visits.

Across the leaders, maxwellsci.com is the most mobile-first (100% of visits), whereas pnas.org is the most desktop-reliant (100%). Momentum favors ancestrycdn.com in the latest month (1,391.49%), while syneoshealth.com shows the steepest pullback. On a yearly view, maxwellsci.com posts the strongest expansion (22,251.94%), contrasted with space.com (-62.78%).

Acquisition patterns also differ: umontreal.ca is driven primarily by search, umontreal.ca by direct, and umontreal.ca by referral; overall, 58 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 36 are search-led, and 6 lean on social.

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