What powers newsobserver.com?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 104 technologies across 33 categories
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AI Crawlers
Blocks all crawlers by default in robots.txt (User-agent: *). Checked Sep 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 *: Blocked (was Allowed)
- Aug 2026 *: Allowed (was Blocked)
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| duke blue devils men's basketball | #10 | 6,200 |
| news and observer | #1 | 5,100 |
| thunderstorm warning | #55 | 4,300 |
| thunderstorm warning | #55 | 4,300 |
| duke basketball | #8 | 3,600 |
| food lion | #23 | 2,900 |
| 42nd street oyster bar raleigh nc | #1 | 2,800 |
| north carolina football | #11 | 2,700 |
| nc usa | #16 | 2,400 |
| stanley cup | #33 | 1,900 |
| belichick bill | #63 | 1,700 |
| what happened in north carolina | #1 | 1,600 |
| brian belichick | #5 | 1,600 |
| dmv north carolina appointment | #9 | 1,500 |
| cigna | #39 | 1,400 |
| outer banks carolina | #3 | 1,300 |
| bob evans | #28 | 1,300 |
| advanced placement | #70 | 1,200 |
| breeze | #20 | 1,100 |
| raleigh news | #2 | 1,100 |
| bonefish grill | #56 | 1,100 |
| young copperhead snake | #7 | 1,000 |
| raleigh nc news | #2 | 980 |
| raleigh nc state | #11 | 920 |
| carolina hurricanes newspaper | #1 | 880 |
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
All crawlers blocked
Audience
- 50% phone
- 47% desktop
- 3% tablet
United States
United Kingdom
India
Germany
Canada
Singapore
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
8.30 / 10 · ranked #3,896 of all domains
5,807 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
259,600 est. monthly organic visits (US)
180,903 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.2 s |
| INP | 175 ms |
| CLS | 0.1 |
| TTFB | 600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Akamai
- Weight: 3.3 MB · 1,634 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
- Raleigh News & Observer (The News & Observer on Wikidata)
- Founded: 1865
- Industry: News and media (declares
NewsMediaOrganization) - Country: United States
- Profiles: Facebook, X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Jan 1998 (28 years) via GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, renews Jan 2027
- Hosted on Google Cloud (34.107.215.110)
- DNS: Google Cloud DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: no SPF record, DMARC quarantine, DNSSEC signed
- SSL: DigiCert, RSA 2048, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 8,362, 38 hosts
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 |
|---|---|
| jobs.newsobserver.com | 34 |
| www.newsobserver.com | 34 |
| account.newsobserver.com | 27 |
| mycheckout.newsobserver.com | 26 |
| eedition.newsobserver.com | 22 |
| games.newsobserver.com | 22 |
| coupons.newsobserver.com | 16 |
| myaccount.newsobserver.com | 15 |
| nie.newsobserver.com | 14 |
| amp.newsobserver.com | 12 |
| classifieds.newsobserver.com | 12 |
| liveedition.newsobserver.com | 6 |
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