What powers 
heraldscotland.com?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 47 technologies across 21 categories
Advertising
Analytics
Authentication
Caching
CDN
Cookie compliance
Customer data platform
Font scripts
JavaScript libraries
Load balancers
PaaS
Performance
Personalisation
Reverse proxies
RUM
Security
Segmentation
Tag managers
UI frameworks
Webmail
Widgets
AI Crawlers
Blocks 26 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Nov 2026.
Training crawlers
- AI2Bot Blocked
- Applebot-Extended Blocked
- Bytespider Blocked
- CCBot Blocked
- ClaudeBot Blocked
- cohere-training-data-crawler Blocked
- Diffbot Blocked
- GPTBot Blocked
- ImagesiftBot Blocked
- img2dataset Blocked
- meta-externalagent Blocked
- PanguBot Blocked
- SBIntuitionsBot Blocked
- Webzio-Extended Blocked
Search and AI assistants
- Amazonbot Blocked
- Applebot Blocked
- Claude-SearchBot Blocked
- DuckAssistBot Blocked
- OAI-SearchBot Blocked
- PerplexityBot Blocked
- PetalBot Blocked
- YouBot Blocked
User-request fetchers
- ChatGPT-User Blocked
- Claude-User Blocked
- meta-externalfetcher Blocked
- MistralAI-User Blocked
The other 7 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| dame maggie smith | #72 | 630 |
| daniel day lewis | #91 | 630 |
| wallace and gromit gromit | #72 | 520 |
| jk rowling | #88 | 520 |
| ian hamilton scotland | #4 | 440 |
| courtney love cobain | #52 | 420 |
| courtney love cobain | #52 | 420 |
| avowedly | #92 | 420 |
| emergency landing | #71 | 420 |
| raine spencer | #97 | 350 |
| patrick stewart | #90 | 350 |
| patrick stewart | #90 | 350 |
| mackenzie christine foy | #84 | 350 |
| crocodile dundee crocodile | #92 | 280 |
| crocodile dundee crocodile | #76 | 280 |
| the patriot 2000 | #93 | 280 |
| balfe caitriona | #89 | 280 |
| sandi easton | #2 | 260 |
| grannies | #65 | 260 |
| glasgow celtic news | #16 | 240 |
| pinewood tree | #63 | 230 |
| glasgow city scotland | #80 | 230 |
| the human bean | #57 | 210 |
| celtic glasgow | #67 | 190 |
| charlotte riley | #65 | 190 |
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
26 of 33 AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 84% phone
- 9% desktop
- 7% tablet
United Kingdom
Ireland
Spain
Canada
Netherlands
France
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
7.97 / 10 · ranked #8,199 of all domains
5,316 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
45,700 est. monthly organic visits (US)
62,827 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.6 s |
| INP | 250 ms |
| CLS | 0.3 |
| TTFB | 600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Microsoft Azure
- Weight: 4.4 MB · 3,205 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
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Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- The Herald
- Founded: 1783
- Country: United Kingdom
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Mar 2008 (18 years) via eNom, LLC, renews Mar 2027
- Hosted on Microsoft (20.90.133.1)
- DNS: Azure DNS
- Email: Microsoft 365
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC quarantine
- SSL: DigiCert, RSA 2048, expires Apr 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 10,525, 11 hosts
- Verified with: Google, Meta Business, Microsoft 365, Yahoo
DNS records as swept Nov 2026, certificate as seen Nov 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| www.heraldscotland.com | 43 |
| directory.heraldscotland.com | 12 |
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Recent changes
- detected Priority Hints Oct 2026
- dropped reCAPTCHA Oct 2026
- dropped Apache HTTP Server Aug 2026
- dropped PubMatic Aug 2026
- dropped Ubuntu Aug 2026
- detected Cloudflare May 2026
- detected Cloudflare Bot Management May 2026
- dropped Microsoft ASP.NET May 2026
- dropped New Relic Feb 2026
- detected PubMatic Feb 2026
- dropped 33Across Jan 2026
- detected New Relic Dec 2025