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dcthomson.co.uk?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 38 technologies across 22 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 |
|---|---|---|
| dc thomson | #1 | 52 |
| dc thomson & co ltd | #1 | 52 |
| dc thomson and co | #1 | 52 |
| logo dc comics | #95 | 25 |
| findmypast | #62 | 11 |
| broons | #10 | 8 |
| sunday post | #5 | 7 |
| thompson and co | #79 | 6 |
| press and journal | #10 | 5 |
| aberdeen press and journal | #4 | 4 |
| is there a sunday post | #4 | 3 |
| d c thomson | #1 | 2 |
| the evening telegraph | #5 | 2 |
| original 106 | #10 | 2 |
| beano magazine | #29 | 2 |
| beano comic | #32 | 2 |
| gnasher and dennis the menace | #65 | 2 |
| dc comics store | #78 | 2 |
| dundee telegraph | #5 | 1 |
| oor wullie comic strip | #9 | 1 |
| dundee courier | #11 | 1 |
| fifth ring | #12 | 1 |
| original 106 fm | #13 | 1 |
| beano dogs | #31 | 1 |
| thompson & co | #50 | 1 |
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
- 49% phone
- 48% desktop
- 3% tablet
United Kingdom
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.32 / 10 · ranked #185,376 of all domains
132 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
250 est. monthly organic visits (US)
105 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 300 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United Kingdom)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 69.6 MB · 101 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
- DC Thomson & Co. Ltd. (D. C. Thomson on Wikidata)
- Founded: 1905
- Sector: publishing
- Country: United Kingdom
- Profiles: LinkedIn
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Nov 1994 (31 years) via Nom-IQ Limited t/a Com Laude, renews Nov 2026
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.26.4.60, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Microsoft 365
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC quarantine
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 56,117, 11 hosts
- Verified with: Apple Business, Atlassian, Canva, Figma, Google, Microsoft 365, Miro
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| careers.dcthomson.co.uk | 19 |
| www.dcthomson.co.uk | 14 |
| eis.dcthomson.co.uk | 10 |
| help.dcthomson.co.uk | 10 |
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Recent changes
- dropped Google Tag Manager for WordPress Jun 2026
- dropped Isotope Jun 2026
- dropped lit-element Jun 2026
- dropped lit-html Jun 2026
- dropped RSS Jun 2026
- dropped WordPress Multisite Jun 2026
- dropped core-js Apr 2026
- dropped Facebook Pixel Apr 2026
- dropped Linkedin Insight Tag Apr 2026