What powers frontiersin.org?

Last seen Sep 2026 · 132 technologies across 41 categories

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AI Crawlers

Restricts 16 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Oct 2026.

Training crawlers

  • AI2Bot Restricted
  • Applebot-Extended Restricted
  • Bytespider Restricted
  • CCBot Restricted
  • ClaudeBot Restricted
  • cohere-training-data-crawler Restricted
  • FacebookBot Restricted
  • Google-Extended Restricted
  • GoogleOther Restricted
  • GPTBot Restricted
  • img2dataset Restricted
  • meta-externalagent Restricted
  • Webzio-Extended Restricted

Search and AI assistants

  • Amazonbot Restricted
  • DuckAssistBot Restricted
  • YouBot Restricted

The other 17 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.

  • robots.txt found
  • llms.txt not found
  • ai.txt not found
  • Oct 2026 gptbot added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 applebot-extended added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 bytespider added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 claudebot added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 anthropic-ai added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 ccbot added to robots.txt

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
velocity time integral #7 21,100
heme oxygenase #7 9,400
personality scale #7 6,300
ashwagandha benefits #6 6,200
withania somnifera benefits #6 5,100
wandering nerve #8 4,800
psychology #8 4,000
complement-dependent cytotoxicity #7 3,900
frontier ai #25 3,800
frontier #20 3,600
febrile fever #4 3,000
non starch polysaccharides #2 2,900
fenbendazole for giardia in dogs #2 2,900
cystathionine beta synthase #17 2,900
rapamycin #4 2,700
phagocytosis #4 2,700
sedentariness #6 2,500
granulomatous meningoencephalitis #10 2,300
vagus nerve #11 2,200
fenbendazole for dogs giardia #2 2,200
phasmatodea #8 2,200
delphinapterus leucas #10 1,900
neuromuscular junction #3 1,800
salvador ramos #3 1,600
popc #16 1,600

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

16 of 33 AI crawlers restricted

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 72% desktop
  • 26% phone
  • 2% tablet
  • United States
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • Philippines
  • Mexico
  • India

Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.

Open Page Rank

9.06 / 10 · ranked #258 of all domains

53,729 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

869,400 est. monthly organic visits (US)

706,983 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP2.7 s
INP200 ms
CLS0
TTFB1800 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.

Page

  • Language: English
  • CDN: Microsoft Azure
  • Weight: 4.5 MB · 131 requests
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.

Similar sites

Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.

Organisation

  • Frontiers Media S.A. (Frontiers Media on Wikidata)
  • Founded: 2007
  • Industry: News and media (declares NewsMediaOrganization)
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Profiles: Facebook, X, LinkedIn

From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).

Infrastructure

  • Registered Feb 2006 (20 years) via GoDaddy.com, LLC, renews Feb 2027
  • Hosted on Microsoft (20.105.75.30)
  • DNS: Azure DNS
  • Email: Microsoft 365
  • Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC reject, BIMI
  • SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Dec 2026
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 222, 79 hosts
  • Verified with: Airtable, Brevo, Detectify, Google, Jamf, Meta Business, Microsoft 365, OpenAI and 2 more

DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted

Subdomains

HostTechs
forumlive.frontiersin.org 34
progressreport.frontiersin.org 34
www.frontiersin.org 33
sciencehouse.frontiersin.org 31
forum.frontiersin.org 30
kids.frontiersin.org 28
policylabs.frontiersin.org 28
editor-application.frontiersin.org 27
pressoffice.frontiersin.org 27
publishingpartnerships.frontiersin.org 27
researchtopics.frontiersin.org 27
static.frontiersin.org 26
discover.frontiersin.org 25
blog.frontiersin.org 24
loop.frontiersin.org 23
coronavirus.frontiersin.org 22
events.frontiersin.org 22
research-topic-management-app.frontiersin.org 22
china.frontiersin.org 19
spotlight.frontiersin.org 19
careers.frontiersin.org 18
zendesk.frontiersin.org 17
helpcenter.frontiersin.org 14
internal-www.frontiersin.org 14

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