What powers 
itbrief.ca?
Last seen Apr 2026 · 10 technologies across 8 categories
Sendgrid
since Jul 2025
Miscellaneous
Open Graph
since Jul 2025
RSS
since Jul 2025
Performance
Priority Hints
since Apr 2026
Programming languages
Ruby
since Jul 2025
Security
HSTS
since Jul 2025
UI frameworks
Tailwind CSS
since Jul 2025
Web frameworks
Ruby on Rails
since Jul 2025
Web servers
Nginx
since Jul 2025
Phusion Passenger
since Jul 2025
AI Crawlers
Does not block any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt. Checked Oct 2026.
Training crawlers
- CCBot Allowed
The other 32 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and stay allowed by default.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 100% desktop
Canada
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
4.70 / 10 · ranked #313,461 of all domains
96 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.6 s |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Infrastructure
- Hosted on ICONZ-AS ICONZ Ltd (210.48.126.143)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: no MX record returned, SPF names Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC reject, CAA
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 8,471,592
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026. How the web is hosted