What powers joelonsoftware.com?
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| leaky abstraction | #1 | 60 |
| abstraction layer | #4 | 47 |
| joel on software | #1 | 36 |
| programmer | #25 | 35 |
| high note | #66 | 29 |
| rewriting software | #5 | 28 |
| realbasic | #3 | 25 |
| 80/20 | #59 | 24 |
| fog creek software | #2 | 23 |
| joel spolsky net worth | #1 | 21 |
| exploding offer | #6 | 20 |
| commoditize your complement | #2 | 18 |
| fogbugz | #6 | 16 |
| law of leaky abstractions | #1 | 15 |
| commoditized | #53 | 14 |
| program user interface design | #3 | 14 |
| guerilla | #55 | 13 |
| functional specification | #6 | 13 |
| programmer ui | #4 | 9 |
| affordances | #24 | 9 |
| software blog | #4 | 8 |
| leaky abstractions | #2 | 8 |
| a-spec | #41 | 8 |
| beta testing | #83 | 7 |
| ui programming | #5 | 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
- 63% desktop
- 37% phone
United States
India
United Kingdom
Canada
Japan
Germany
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
8.14 / 10 · ranked #5,643 of all domains
3,809 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
900 est. monthly organic visits (US)
1,746 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1 s |
| INP | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 1.6 MB · 83 requests
- WordPress theme: editor-redux · all themes
- Structured data: OpenGraph
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| www.joelonsoftware.com | 23 |
| local.joelonsoftware.com | 6 |
| discuss.joelonsoftware.com | 3 |
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