What powers 
bogost.com?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 10 technologies across 9 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 not found
- ai.txt not found
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| ian bogost | #2 | 160 |
| guru meditation | #2 | 63 |
| cow clicker game | #4 | 47 |
| play anything ian bogost | #2 | 42 |
| play anything | #2 | 42 |
| ian bogost play anything | #2 | 42 |
| what is andapp | #58 | 14 |
| ian bogost books | #1 | 12 |
| ian bogost | #10 | 11 |
| persuasive games book | #3 | 9 |
| where is mordor | #6 | 6 |
| persuasive games ian bogost | #4 | 6 |
| stuff white people like blog | #81 | 4 |
| mr rogers look for the helpers | #21 | 4 |
| ian bogost procedural rhetoric | #3 | 4 |
| ian bogost persuasive games | #5 | 4 |
| do you muddle an old fashioned | #6 | 4 |
| old fashioned muddled or not | #4 | 3 |
| info is beautiful | #24 | 3 |
| cow clicker game | #88 | 2 |
| pay what you want game bundles | #71 | 2 |
| pay what you want game bundles | #71 | 2 |
| procedural rhetoric ian bogost | #4 | 2 |
| letter of inquiry template | #62 | 2 |
| gamification synonym | #13 | 2 |
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
- 68% desktop
- 32% phone
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.71 / 10 · ranked #135,984 of all domains
408 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
520 est. monthly organic visits (US)
242 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.7 s |
| CLS | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- Weight: 13.9 MB · 280 requests
- Structured data: OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Infrastructure
- Registered Dec 1999 (26 years) via Tucows Domains Inc., renews Dec 2026
- Hosted on GEARHOST (204.246.56.80)
- DNS: gear.host
- Email: gearhost.com
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), no DMARC record
- SSL: Sectigo, RSA 2048, expires Mar 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 435,873, 4 hosts
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped Font Awesome Dec 2025
- dropped Google Hosted Libraries Dec 2025
- dropped jQuery Dec 2025
- dropped Modernizr Dec 2025
- dropped MySQL Dec 2025
- dropped RSS Dec 2025
- dropped Twitter Dec 2025
- dropped Twitter Ads Dec 2025
- dropped Typekit Dec 2025
- dropped WordPress Dec 2025