What powers how.to?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 15 technologies across 9 categories
Advertising
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AI Crawlers
Does not block any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt. Checked Sep 2026.
Training crawlers
- ClaudeBot Allowed
- Google-Extended Allowed
- GPTBot Allowed
Search and AI assistants
- Applebot Allowed
- PerplexityBot Allowed
User-request fetchers
- ChatGPT-User Allowed
The other 27 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt found
- llms-full.txt found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Standards: llms.txt, llms-full.txt
Audience
- 100% phone
United Kingdom
United States
Philippines
South Africa
India
Nigeria
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
2.83 / 10 · ranked #1,922,222 of all domains
40 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 5 s |
| INP | 200 ms |
| CLS | 0.6 |
| TTFB | 1400 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 0.9 MB · 60 requests
- Structured data: OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Organisation
- How.to
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Cloudflare (185.158.133.1)
- DNS: netim.net
- Email: netim.net
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), no DMARC record
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 249,226, 4 hosts
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped Google Tag Manager Aug 2026
- detected Cloudflare Bot Management Feb 2026
- detected Google Analytics Feb 2026
- detected Google Tag Manager Feb 2026
- detected Google AdSense Jan 2026
- detected Google Font API Jan 2026
- dropped HTTP/3 Jan 2026
- detected Priority Hints Jan 2026
- detected reCAPTCHA Jan 2026
- dropped Nginx Dec 2025
- dropped OpenResty Dec 2025