What powers 
boingboing.net?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 92 technologies across 33 categories
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AI Crawlers
Doesn't name any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt. Catch-all rules (User-agent: *) restrict some paths for every crawler, AI or not. Checked Oct 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 google-extended removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 applebot-extended removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 bytespider removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 anthropic-ai removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 Content Signals changed
- Sep 2026 ai2bot removed from robots.txt
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| arrival 2016 | #69 | 3,800 |
| ford electric truck | #2 | 1,600 |
| greta thunberg | #99 | 1,200 |
| balcony | #7 | 1,000 |
| shutterstock | #30 | 840 |
| plex | #34 | 770 |
| just long | #73 | 630 |
| youtube thumbnail grabber | #2 | 580 |
| boingboing | #1 | 450 |
| origami | #38 | 420 |
| adolf hitler | #49 | 390 |
| dirtbag song | #15 | 380 |
| how to pronounce ghibli | #3 | 350 |
| o&o | #48 | 350 |
| flatiron building new york | #89 | 320 |
| headway | #49 | 280 |
| hellraiser | #51 | 280 |
| roy marcus cohn | #71 | 280 |
| deaf leopards | #78 | 280 |
| tom the dancing bug | #2 | 260 |
| amazon japan | #18 | 240 |
| yakuza | #53 | 230 |
| goblin green | #55 | 230 |
| who framed rabbit | #76 | 230 |
| hamburglar | #91 | 230 |
The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Standards: llms.txt
Audience
- 54% desktop
- 42% phone
- 4% tablet
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Australia
India
Germany
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
8.27 / 10 · ranked #4,252 of all domains
9,924 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
57,900 est. monthly organic visits (US)
76,044 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 300 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 6.0 MB · 2,830 requests
- WordPress theme: boing · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
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Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- Happy Mutants, LLC. (Boing Boing on Wikidata)
- Founded: 1995
- Country: United States
- Profiles: Facebook, X
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered May 1998 (28 years) via Squarespace Domains II LLC, renews May 2027
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.20.34.75, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC quarantine, DNSSEC signed
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 5,380, 22 hosts
- Verified with: Google, Meta Business
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| boingboing.net | 49 |
| store.boingboing.net | 35 |
| premium.boingboing.net | 21 |
| bbs.boingboing.net | 20 |
| www.boingboing.net | 20 |
| gadgets.boingboing.net | 18 |
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