What powers 
gizmodo.com?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 75 technologies across 28 categories
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AI Crawlers
Blocks 9 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Sep 2026.
Training crawlers
- AI2Bot Blocked
- Bytespider Blocked
- CCBot Blocked
- cohere-training-data-crawler Blocked
- Diffbot Blocked
- ImagesiftBot Blocked
- meta-externalagent Blocked
- PanguBot Blocked
- Webzio-Extended Blocked
The other 24 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| netflix | #64 | 28,600 |
| google drive | #79 | 19,200 |
| google drive | #51 | 19,200 |
| gizmodo | #1 | 12,300 |
| gemini | #57 | 11,700 |
| youtube tv | #55 | 10,500 |
| youtube tv | #45 | 10,500 |
| skyscanner | #14 | 8,400 |
| google assistant | #3 | 8,000 |
| ai | #98 | 5,800 |
| play store app | #6 | 5,100 |
| nintendo switch 2 | #63 | 4,700 |
| roku | #16 | 4,300 |
| superman | #71 | 3,800 |
| streaming services | #79 | 3,800 |
| google photos | #58 | 3,800 |
| fl studio fruity loops | #9 | 3,700 |
| download gta vi for pc | #1 | 3,700 |
| thor ra | #7 | 3,500 |
| squid game | #40 | 3,200 |
| google voice | #72 | 2,900 |
| play store application | #5 | 2,800 |
| seatgeek | #50 | 2,600 |
| openai | #79 | 2,600 |
| oura ring | #82 | 2,600 |
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
9 of 33 AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 72% phone
- 25% desktop
- 3% tablet
United States
Spain
United Kingdom
Chile
Canada
Australia
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
8.82 / 10 · ranked #736 of all domains
26,201 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
789,000 est. monthly organic visits (US)
513,208 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.15 |
| TTFB | 600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 3.9 MB · 269 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD, 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
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Jul 2002 (24 years) via OVH sas, renews Jul 2027
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.26.2.63)
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC quarantine, DNSSEC signed, BIMI
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Oct 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 1,325, 79 hosts
- Verified with: Apple Business, Google
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 |
|---|---|
| es.gizmodo.com | 38 |
| gizmodo.com | 38 |
| fr.gizmodo.com | 27 |
| de.gizmodo.com | 26 |
| www.gizmodo.com | 22 |
| store.gizmodo.com | 19 |
| earther.gizmodo.com | 18 |
| io9.gizmodo.com | 18 |
| paleofuture.gizmodo.com | 18 |
| fieldguide.gizmodo.com | 15 |
| sploid.gizmodo.com | 15 |
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- dropped jQuery Migrate Aug 2026
- detected GumGum Jun 2026
- detected Cloudflare Bot Management May 2026
- detected TripleLift May 2026
- dropped 33Across Apr 2026
- dropped Microsoft ASP.NET Apr 2026
- dropped TripleLift Apr 2026
- detected lit-element Feb 2026
- detected lit-html Feb 2026
- detected OpenX Feb 2026
- detected Preact Feb 2026
- detected Tapad Feb 2026
- dropped VideoJS Feb 2026
- dropped lit-element Dec 2025
- dropped lit-html Dec 2025
- dropped OpenX Dec 2025
- dropped Tapad Dec 2025
- detected VideoJS Dec 2025
- detected lit-element Oct 2025
- detected lit-html Oct 2025
- detected OpenX Oct 2025
- detected Tapad Oct 2025