What powers independent.co.ug?

Last seen Jun 2026 · 32 technologies across 15 categories

Advertising

33Across
since May 2023
Google AdSense
since Apr 2018
ID5 v1.0.97
since Oct 2023
MGID
since Nov 2021
Prebid
since Sep 2022
Rubicon Project
since Jul 2021

Analytics

Google Analytics
since Jun 2018
Snowplow Analytics
since Sep 2024

CDN

Cloudflare
since Jun 2018
Sucuri
since Jul 2018

CMS

WordPress v4.9.6
since Apr 2018

Databases

MySQL
since Jun 2018

Font scripts

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

JavaScript libraries

jQuery v1.12.4
since Apr 2018
jQuery Migrate v1.4.1
since Apr 2018
Lightbox
since Apr 2018
Modernizr v2.7.0
since Jun 2018

Miscellaneous

Gravatar
since Jun 2018
HTTP/3
since Feb 2025
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
RSS
since Dec 2022

Programming languages

PHP
since Jun 2018

Security

Cloudflare Bot Management
since Nov 2021
HSTS
since Sep 2022
reCAPTCHA
since Apr 2022

Segmentation

Adobe Audience Manager
since Aug 2025

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Oct 2020

Video players

YouTube
since Jul 2022

Webmail

Google Workspace
since Aug 2022

WordPress plugins

Jetpack
since Feb 2022
Yoast SEO v7.6.1
since Apr 2018

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
magogo #64 1,600
cdu/csu #94 47
kampala city uganda #87 29
largest gold exporter in africa #1 27
bahema #4 21
another word for undermine #88 21
migingo island kenya #70 17
are panda bears vicious #57 16
independent newspaper uganda #1 15
exporter of gold africa #1 15
arua municipality #77 14
entebbe #88 14
first lady gentleman #72 14
iron curtain definition #87 11
uganda now #80 9
equity group holdings news #4 9
ccare #73 8
the weekly observer uganda #15 8
uganda people #81 8
uganda life expectancy #5 8
another word for compromise #95 8
worldvision #77 7
uganda newspaper online #5 7
uganda news #15 7
were egyptians black #44 7

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.

Audience

  • 89% phone
  • 9% desktop
  • 2% tablet
  • Uganda
  • South Africa
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Nigeria
  • Kenya
  • Rwanda

Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.

Open Page Rank

7.00 / 10 · ranked #45,622 of all domains

817 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

2,400 est. monthly organic visits (US)

2,544 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP4.3 s
INP100 ms
CLS0
TTFB1300 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.

Page

  • Language: English (United States)
  • CDN: Sucuri Firewall
  • Weight: 8.6 MB · 615 requests
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.

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