What powers explosionnetwork.com?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 25 technologies across 17 categories
Advertising
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Font scripts
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PaaS
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Performance
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Security
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Webmail
WordPress plugins
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
- Oct 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 75% phone
- 23% desktop
- 2% tablet
United States
United Kingdom
Brazil
Australia
Canada
Philippines
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
2.23 / 10 · ranked #3,033,793 of all domains
33 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1500 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Oct 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 4.2 MB · 36 requests
- WordPress theme: explosion-network-theme · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
- Explosion Network
- Industry: News and media (declares
NewsMediaOrganization) - Profiles: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, X
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Automattic (WordPress.com) (192.0.78.188)
- DNS: WordPress.com DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 719,806, 2 hosts
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped Funding Choices Oct 2026
- dropped Google AdSense Oct 2026
- dropped Google Sign-in Oct 2026
- dropped Google Tag Manager Oct 2026
- dropped reCAPTCHA Oct 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Oct 2026
- detected Amazon ALB Sep 2026
- detected Amazon Web Services Sep 2026
- detected Mediavine Sep 2026
- dropped HTTP/3 Jul 2026
- dropped AppNexus Apr 2026
- dropped Criteo Apr 2026
- dropped LazySizes Apr 2026
- dropped PubMatic Apr 2026
- dropped WordAds Apr 2026