Top Science Websites in France

Key Insights on Top Science Websites in France on December 2025

As of December 2025, unistra.fr leads Science in France with 2.34M monthly visits. Its audience skews mobile-first (46.94% desktop / 46.94% mobile), and traffic is down month over month -20.21% and up year over year 15.12%. sorbonne-universite.fr holds second with 2.12M visits and a mobile-leaning mix (34.38% desktop / 65.62% mobile), while cnrs.fr ranks third with 2M visits.

Across the leaders, phys.org is the most mobile-first (97.21% of visits), whereas orcid.org is the most desktop-reliant (90.5%). Momentum favors uni-tuebingen.de in the latest month (165.42%), while ipsl.fr shows the steepest pullback. On a yearly view, idref.fr posts the strongest expansion (206.68%), contrasted with understandingwar.org (-57.59%).

Acquisition patterns also differ: unistra.fr is driven primarily by search, unistra.fr by direct, and unistra.fr by referral; overall, 79 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 14 are search-led, and 7 lean on social.

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