What powers lileks.com?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 4 technologies across 4 categories
Editors
Font Scripts
Miscellaneous
Web servers
AI Crawlers
No robots.txt, so all AI crawlers are allowed by default. Checked Sep 2026.
- robots.txt not found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| dourif | #72 | 190 |
| old motel | #1 | 150 |
| shabby fabrics | #40 | 85 |
| pacific pipe | #90 | 57 |
| carnegie museum of art | #88 | 47 |
| old motels | #1 | 44 |
| lileks bleat | #2 | 39 |
| candlepin bowling | #71 | 35 |
| the tale of peter rabbit book | #80 | 31 |
| ready player one quotes with page numbers | #95 | 31 |
| duke library | #94 | 31 |
| 1812 overture finale | #45 | 31 |
| boston more than a feeling | #63 | 29 |
| madcap coffee | #74 | 29 |
| formica countertops | #80 | 29 |
| marianas trench | #69 | 28 |
| unmoored | #94 | 25 |
| fortress of solitude | #82 | 25 |
| fortress of solitude | #82 | 25 |
| who figured out gravity | #91 | 21 |
| wilhelm ii | #92 | 21 |
| bleater | #70 | 21 |
| tonic the way she loves me | #67 | 21 |
| transpired meaning | #78 | 19 |
| great white venice | #93 | 19 |
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.
AI Crawlers
No robots.txt, all AI crawlers allowed
Audience
- 80% desktop
- 20% phone
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.54 / 10 · ranked #154,278 of all domains
444 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
2,400 est. monthly organic visits (US)
2,039 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 0.6 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 200 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Weight: 0.5 MB · 23 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Infrastructure
- Hosted on ESTRUXTURE-ON-19122 (199.167.131.34)
- DNS: hmdnsgroup.com
- Email: lileks.com
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), no DMARC record
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, wildcard, expires Oct 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 481,146, 2 hosts
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| lileks.com | 4 |
| www.lileks.com | 4 |
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