Top Science Websites in the United Kingdom

Key Insights on Top Science Websites in the United Kingdom on December 2025

As of December 2025, metoffice.gov.uk leads Science in the United Kingdom with 17.8M monthly visits. Its audience skews mobile-first (35.43% desktop / 35.43% mobile), and traffic is down month over month -13.66% and down year over year -30.84%. sciencedirect.com holds second with 3.98M visits and a desktop-leaning mix (72.34% desktop / 27.66% mobile), while wiley.com ranks third with 2.17M visits.

Across the leaders, oyunlarim.com.tr is the most mobile-first (99.18% of visits), whereas endnote.com is the most desktop-reliant (97.99%). Momentum favors mwn.de in the latest month (22,982.81%), while openreview.net shows the steepest pullback. On a yearly view, oyunlarim.com.tr posts the strongest expansion (214,809.75%), contrasted with core.ac.uk (-64.79%).

Acquisition patterns also differ: metoffice.gov.uk is driven primarily by search, metoffice.gov.uk by direct, and metoffice.gov.uk by referral; overall, 85 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 11 are search-led, and 4 lean on social.

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