What powers 
backyardbrains.com?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 78 technologies across 29 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. A recent check saw a policy file missing; awaiting confirmation.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt found
- llms-full.txt found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 llms.txt appeared
- Sep 2026 llms-full.txt appeared
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| backyard brains | #1 | 220 |
| remote control cockroach | #1 | 160 |
| typical reaction time | #7 | 140 |
| robot roach | #1 | 90 |
| robot roaches | #1 | 54 |
| average reaction time | #13 | 32 |
| human reaction test | #4 | 32 |
| reaction time | #76 | 29 |
| robot roach | #3 | 29 |
| hammer for knee jerk | #3 | 25 |
| prosthetic hand claw | #2 | 23 |
| spiker box | #1 | 21 |
| knee reflex hammer | #2 | 21 |
| diving response | #43 | 21 |
| dive response | #26 | 21 |
| experiments on brain | #1 | 21 |
| what is the human reaction time | #5 | 18 |
| diy eeg | #3 | 17 |
| how the brain works book | #2 | 16 |
| electrodes | #26 | 16 |
| electro patches | #2 | 16 |
| spikerbox | #2 | 15 |
| spike box | #2 | 15 |
| neuroscience kits | #1 | 15 |
| human-human interface | #1 | 15 |
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
Standards: llms.txt, llms-full.txt
Audience
- 65% desktop
- 35% phone
United States
Mexico
India
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.32 / 10 · ranked #186,291 of all domains
245 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
1,600 est. monthly organic visits (US)
632 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 5.5 MB · 351 requests
- Structured data: OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Organisation
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Apr 2009 (17 years) via Squarespace Domains II LLC, renews Apr 2032
- Hosted on Cloudflare (23.227.38.65, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, expires Oct 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 63,024, 21 hosts
- Verified with: Apple Business, MailerLite, Meta Business, OpenAI
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| blog.backyardbrains.com | 32 |
| backyardbrains.com | 30 |
| forum.backyardbrains.com | 18 |
| help.backyardbrains.com | 18 |
| www.backyardbrains.com | 16 |
| docs.backyardbrains.com | 12 |
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- detected MailerLite Aug 2026
- dropped Mautic Aug 2026
- detected Mautic Jun 2026
- detected TikTok Pixel Feb 2026
- dropped Glider.js Dec 2025
- dropped Plyr Dec 2025
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Dec 2025
- dropped Vimeo Dec 2025