What powers risd.edu?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 217 technologies across 52 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
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| risd rhode island | #1 | 6,700 |
| risd design | #1 | 6,700 |
| rhode island school of design | #1 | 6,700 |
| risd museum | #2 | 5,400 |
| ryan waller | #1 | 2,500 |
| risd jobs | #1 | 580 |
| risd job postings | #1 | 580 |
| risd job opportunities | #1 | 580 |
| brown university providence ri | #41 | 520 |
| mfa boston | #47 | 520 |
| rhode island ri | #34 | 470 |
| ri rhode island | #52 | 470 |
| brown university rhode island | #24 | 390 |
| bfa country | #95 | 350 |
| risd job openings | #2 | 310 |
| masters of arts | #40 | 280 |
| risd art | #1 | 270 |
| rsid | #1 | 270 |
| jonathan knowles | #3 | 230 |
| risd design center | #1 | 220 |
| risd careers | #1 | 220 |
| risd library | #2 | 210 |
| graphics and design | #13 | 200 |
| ri | #29 | 190 |
| r | #66 | 190 |
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
- 78% desktop
- 22% phone
United States
India
Canada
United Kingdom
China
Australia
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
7.68 / 10 · ranked #13,756 of all domains
1,655 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
49,500 est. monthly organic visits (US)
11,121 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 3.8 MB · 139 requests
- WordPress theme: avada (child: avadachildtheme) · all themes
- Structured data: 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
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Founded: 1877
- Sector: higher education
- Country: United States
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Fastly (23.185.0.3)
- DNS: IBM NS1
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC quarantine
- SSL: DigiCert, RSA 2048, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 12,626, 165 hosts
- Verified with: Adobe, Apple Business, Dropbox, GlobalSign, Google, Have I Been Pwned, Jamf, Meta Business and 3 more
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| events.risd.edu | 49 |
| ce.risd.edu | 41 |
| risdnetwork.risd.edu | 40 |
| engage.risd.edu | 39 |
| healthandwellness.risd.edu | 34 |
| hr.risd.edu | 29 |
| cereg.risd.edu | 28 |
| involved.risd.edu | 28 |
| www.risd.edu | 28 |
| covid.risd.edu | 26 |
| digitalcommons.risd.edu | 26 |
| publications.risd.edu | 26 |
| admissions.risd.edu | 25 |
| safety.risd.edu | 25 |
| strategicplanning.risd.edu | 25 |
| connect.risd.edu | 24 |
| families.risd.edu | 24 |
| our.risd.edu | 24 |
| precollege.risd.edu | 24 |
| complexity.risd.edu | 23 |
| favshow.risd.edu | 23 |
| housing.risd.edu | 23 |
| liberalartsmasters.risd.edu | 23 |
| mrc.risd.edu | 23 |
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- detected Frontify Jan 2026
- dropped Kinsta Dec 2025
- detected jQuery CDN Nov 2025
- detected Google Publisher Tag Oct 2025
- dropped SWC Oct 2025