What powers freakonomics.com?

Last seen Aug 2026 · 20 technologies across 14 categories

Analytics

Google Analytics
since Jun 2018

CDN

Cloudflare
since Dec 2024
Google Hosted Libraries
since Feb 2022

CMS

WordPress v6.9.7
since Apr 2018

Databases

MySQL
since Jun 2018

Font scripts

Google Font API
since Apr 2018
Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)
since Jun 2018

Hosting

GoDaddy
since Aug 2022

JavaScript libraries

jQuery v3.6.0
since Apr 2018
jQuery Migrate v3.4.1
since Jan 2022
Slick
since Jan 2022

Miscellaneous

HTTP/3
since Jul 2026
Open Graph
since Sep 2022

Page builders

WordPress Block Editor
since Jul 2026

Programming languages

PHP
since Jun 2018

Security

Cloudflare Bot Management
since Dec 2024

SEO

Yoast SEO v27.9
since Apr 2018

Web servers

Nginx v1.14.2
since Mar 2020

Webmail

Google Workspace
since Aug 2022

AI Crawlers

Blocks 8 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Sep 2026.

Training crawlers

  • Applebot-Extended Blocked
  • Bytespider Blocked
  • CCBot Blocked
  • ClaudeBot Blocked
  • Google-Extended Blocked
  • GPTBot Blocked
  • meta-externalagent Blocked

Search and AI assistants

  • Amazonbot Blocked

The other 25 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and stay allowed by default.

  • robots.txt found
  • llms.txt not checked
  • ai.txt not checked

Content Signals: search=yes ai-train=no declared in robots.txt

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
freakonomics #1 6,700
gm #50 4,700
freakonomics podcast #1 2,000
freakonomics podcast #3 640
mayim bialik #41 420
never let a good crisis go to waste #1 400
a painting is worth a thousand words #7 310
no stupid questions #1 300
great scott origin #1 220
steven levitt #4 190
freakonomics book #3 190
no stupid questions podcast #1 180
stephen j dubner #2 180
kevin name meaning #3 180
everything program #68 160
empathy vs sympathy #21 130
white rhino #61 130
mythbusters tv series #70 130
freakonomics dubner #4 130
the upside #44 120
the price of liberty is eternal vigilance #2 110
my sharona #13 110
guinness records book #41 100
steven d levitt #5 100
levitt steven #6 98

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

8 of 33 AI crawlers blocked

Standards: Content Signals

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 55% desktop
  • 44% phone
  • 1% tablet
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • India
  • Germany
  • Japan
  • Canada

Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.

Open Page Rank

7.82 / 10 · ranked #10,422 of all domains

3,713 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

27,900 est. monthly organic visits (US)

14,618 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.5 s
INP50 ms
CLS0
TTFB700 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.

Page

  • Language: English
  • CDN: Cloudflare
  • Weight: 5.5 MB · 226 requests
  • WordPress theme: freakonomics_2021 · all themes
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.

Subdomains

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www.freakonomics.com 16

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