What powers 
ncl.ac.uk?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 202 technologies across 49 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 Sep 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 imagesiftbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 youbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 ccbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 omgilibot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 google-extended removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 bytespider removed from robots.txt
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| newcastle | #3 | 18,000 |
| hypothesis and null hypothesis | #2 | 6,600 |
| newcastle uni | #1 | 2,000 |
| ncl library | #1 | 1,600 |
| newcastle university | #1 | 1,500 |
| what is a synopsis | #2 | 1,300 |
| quote and quote | #51 | 950 |
| ncl | #31 | 580 |
| newcastle england | #91 | 520 |
| paragraph | #11 | 410 |
| synopsis definition | #9 | 410 |
| the university of newcastle | #2 | 310 |
| define synopsis | #9 | 270 |
| reporting verbs | #1 | 270 |
| ncl library | #5 | 250 |
| how to reference pictures | #7 | 250 |
| quotation | #10 | 250 |
| newcastle uk | #6 | 220 |
| researchers gate | #70 | 210 |
| uk united kingdom | #85 | 210 |
| synopsis meaning | #10 | 210 |
| newcastle upon tyne | #10 | 170 |
| intersectionality | #45 | 160 |
| synopsis | #31 | 140 |
| craig jones | #16 | 140 |
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
Audience
- 86% phone
- 13% desktop
- 1% tablet
India
United Kingdom
Egypt
Pakistan
Bangladesh
France
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
8.29 / 10 · ranked #4,035 of all domains
6,944 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
50,900 est. monthly organic visits (US)
15,860 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 5.1 s |
| INP | 175 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 2300 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 12.9 MB · 73 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
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govtribe.com 3 shared
deutscherimkerbund.de 3 shared
imperial.ac.uk 9 shared
vivaldi.com 3 shared
Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- Newcastle University
- Founded: 1963
- Industry: Education (declares
CollegeOrUniversity) - Country: United Kingdom
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on JANET Jisc Services Limited (128.240.216.85)
- DNS: ncl.ac.uk
- Email: Microsoft 365
- Email security: no SPF record, DMARC quarantine, MTA-STS
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 6,396, 477 hosts
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| belong.ncl.ac.uk | 39 |
| from.ncl.ac.uk | 37 |
| experience.ncl.ac.uk | 36 |
| supportus.ncl.ac.uk | 35 |
| soundscapes.atnu.ncl.ac.uk | 33 |
| international-blogs.ncl.ac.uk | 32 |
| enquire.ncl.ac.uk | 31 |
| translations.atnu.ncl.ac.uk | 31 |
| www.ncl.ac.uk | 31 |
| libguides.ncl.ac.uk | 26 |
| stem.ncl.ac.uk | 25 |
| archivesalive.ncl.ac.uk | 24 |
| podcasts.ncl.ac.uk | 24 |
| videoconferencing.ncl.ac.uk | 24 |
| blogs.ncl.ac.uk | 23 |
| libsearch.ncl.ac.uk | 23 |
| ncl.ac.uk | 23 |
| www.staff.ncl.ac.uk | 23 |
| studentportal.ncl.ac.uk | 22 |
| sixthformstudyskills.ncl.ac.uk | 21 |
| wallcap.ncl.ac.uk | 21 |
| www.nhsn.ncl.ac.uk | 21 |
| www.societies.ncl.ac.uk | 21 |
| britishcivilwars.ncl.ac.uk | 20 |
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- detected Fathom Feb 2026
- dropped Zepto Feb 2026