What powers buildingscience.com?

Last seen Jun 2026 · 23 technologies across 17 categories

Analytics

Facebook Pixel v2.9.334
since Jul 2021
Google Analytics
since Jun 2018

Caching

Varnish
since Jun 2018

CDN

Fastly
since Feb 2021
jsDelivr
since Feb 2023

CMS

Drupal v10
since Apr 2018

Databases

MariaDB
since May 2019

Ecommerce

Cart Functionality
since Aug 2020

Email

Mailgun
since Aug 2022

JavaScript libraries

core-js v3.32.2
since Sep 2021
jQuery v3.7.1
since Jun 2018
scrollreveal
since Feb 2023

PaaS

Pantheon
since May 2019

Payment processors

Stripe v3
since Jun 2020

Programming languages

C
since Feb 2023
PHP
since Jun 2018

RUM

New Relic
since Jun 2018

Security

HSTS
since Sep 2022
reCAPTCHA
since Aug 2025

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Aug 2020

UI frameworks

Bootstrap v5.1.3
since Feb 2023

Web servers

Nginx
since Mar 2019

Webmail

Microsoft 365
since Aug 2022

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
building science #1 400
parapet roof #3 320
vapor barrier classes #1 300
air barrier #1 300
attic ventilation #10 250
basement foundation #3 230
joseph lstiburek #1 150
transfer duct #1 120
sips #8 120
polyiso r value #4 110
wood foundation #4 65
the perfect wall #1 64
drainage plane #1 64
flashing detail #1 64
parapet detail #3 57
capillarity #6 54
stucco eifs problems #1 52
transfer air duct #2 47
punched windows #3 47
brick parapet #6 44
parapet wall detail #4 39
sips insulated panels #10 38
sip panels #12 38
parapet wall roof #7 34
unvented roof assembly #1 33

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.

Audience

  • 75% desktop
  • 25% phone
  • United States
  • Canada

Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.

Open Page Rank

6.07 / 10 · ranked #105,029 of all domains

436 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

5,600 est. monthly organic visits (US)

3,047 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.1 s
INP25 ms
CLS0.05
TTFB500 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.

Page

  • Language: English
  • CDN: Fastly
  • Weight: 23.8 MB · 65 requests

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.

Subdomains

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buildingscience.com 20

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