What powers 
herbsutter.com?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 20 technologies across 14 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 Nov 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| sutter's mill | #2 | 1,600 |
| gotw | #1 | 79 |
| herb sutter | #4 | 30 |
| destructor | #9 | 29 |
| herb sutter citadel | #2 | 12 |
| hungarian notation | #11 | 12 |
| got w | #2 | 11 |
| trip log | #75 | 9 |
| dennis ritchie | #25 | 8 |
| cpp2 | #8 | 6 |
| initialize meaning in programming | #4 | 5 |
| herb sutter: books | #3 | 3 |
| cpp 26 | #4 | 3 |
| facebook/folly | #7 | 2 |
| gotw meaning | #7 | 2 |
| static vs dynamic typing | #16 | 2 |
| longs kona | #50 | 2 |
| sutter mill | #4 | 1 |
| herb sutter book | #7 | 1 |
| move simply | #7 | 1 |
| hungarian casing | #10 | 1 |
| c garbage collection | #11 | 1 |
| garbage collection in c | #17 | 1 |
| software engineering daily | #22 | 1 |
| jonathan sutter | #46 | 1 |
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
Audience
- 58% desktop
- 42% phone
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.79 / 10 · ranked #129,089 of all domains
284 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
1,800 est. monthly organic visits (US)
137 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 0.8 s |
| INP | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- Weight: 2.4 MB · 58 requests
- WordPress theme: pubindependent-publisher-2 · all themes
- Structured data: Microdata, OpenGraph
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Infrastructure
- Registered Jun 2009 (17 years) via Tucows Domains Inc., renews Jun 2027
- Hosted on Automattic (WordPress.com) (192.0.78.24)
- DNS: WordPress.com DNS
- Email: no MX record returned
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 429,607, 2 hosts
DNS records as swept Nov 2026, certificate as seen Nov 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| herbsutter.com | 15 |
| www.herbsutter.com | 11 |
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