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collegesofdistinction.com?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 27 technologies across 19 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
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| scholarships for high school seniors | #4 | 1,200 |
| best nursing schools | #2 | 980 |
| north park university chicago | #7 | 690 |
| uom minnesota | #59 | 690 |
| florida gulf coast university | #11 | 550 |
| acceptance rate | #3 | 430 |
| merit scholarship definition | #1 | 400 |
| merit scholarship meaning | #1 | 400 |
| capstone course | #2 | 390 |
| what is a merit scholarship | #1 | 370 |
| pepperdine university california | #16 | 360 |
| wait listed | #3 | 350 |
| baruch college | #26 | 350 |
| pepperdine malibu | #19 | 340 |
| miami university oxford | #19 | 300 |
| lipscomb university nashville | #12 | 280 |
| top nursing programs in the us | #6 | 250 |
| saint francis university loretto pa 15940 | #10 | 250 |
| tsu houston | #17 | 240 |
| shenandoah university winchester va | #12 | 230 |
| best colleges in tennessee | #2 | 210 |
| what is a capstone class | #7 | 210 |
| waynesburg pa university | #7 | 200 |
| waitlisted meaning | #2 | 190 |
| hardest colleges to get into | #5 | 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
Philippines
India
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.62 / 10 · ranked #144,456 of all domains
379 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
28,400 est. monthly organic visits (US)
8,361 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.9 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 1.9 MB · 129 requests
- WordPress theme: abound · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026).
Infrastructure
- Registered Jan 2003 (23 years) via GoDaddy.com, LLC, renews Jan 2027
- Hosted on DreamHost (69.163.207.138)
- DNS: DreamHost
- Email: no MX record returned, SPF names Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC quarantine
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 75,611, 2 hosts
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted