What powers plos.org?
Last seen Jun 2026 · 77 technologies across 35 categories
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| plos one | #2 | 2,000 |
| science | #16 | 1,100 |
| plos one | #6 | 410 |
| project gutenberg | #52 | 190 |
| plos computational | #3 | 160 |
| apc | #36 | 160 |
| plos one impact factor | #6 | 150 |
| plos biology | #4 | 130 |
| oa series | #68 | 120 |
| plos one publication fee | #1 | 97 |
| plos one fee | #1 | 97 |
| how to write the discussion section of a research paper | #2 | 96 |
| how to write a discussion section of a research paper | #2 | 96 |
| plos computational biology | #5 | 75 |
| one home | #57 | 70 |
| gutenberg | #84 | 70 |
| plos med | #4 | 58 |
| publisher | #48 | 57 |
| how to write a discussion for research paper | #2 | 52 |
| how to write a discussion for a research paper | #2 | 52 |
| plos one impact factor | #10 | 50 |
| impactful thesaurus | #48 | 47 |
| plos one submission | #4 | 39 |
| uphold thesaurus | #53 | 38 |
| perception thesaurus | #54 | 38 |
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
- 76% desktop
- 22% phone
- 1% tablet
United States
India
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
Brazil
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
9.00 / 10 · ranked #369 of all domains
42,112 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
9,300 est. monthly organic visits (US)
4,623 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 1200 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 1.5 MB · 69 requests
- WordPress theme: plosresources · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| absolutelymaybe.plos.org | 29 |
| biologue.plos.org | 29 |
| collections.plos.org | 29 |
| latitude.plos.org | 29 |
| plos.org | 29 |
| collectionsblog.plos.org | 28 |
| dnascience.plos.org | 28 |
| everyone.plos.org | 28 |
| scicomm.plos.org | 28 |
| speakingofmedicine.plos.org | 28 |
| theplosblog.plos.org | 28 |
| yoursay.plos.org | 28 |
| ecrcommunity.plos.org | 25 |
| currents.plos.org | 24 |
| journals.plos.org | 24 |
| api.plos.org | 22 |
| allmodels.plos.org | 21 |
| community.plos.org | 20 |
| researchnews.plos.org | 17 |
| billing.plos.org | 16 |
| blogs.plos.org | 15 |
| one.editors.plos.org | 15 |
| reviewers.plos.org | 15 |
| www.plos.org | 15 |
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