What powers 
manhattan.institute?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 49 technologies across 26 categories
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AI Crawlers
Doesn't name any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt. Catch-all rules (User-agent: *) restrict some paths for every crawler, AI or not. Checked Nov 2026. A recent check saw a policy file missing; awaiting confirmation.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt found
- llms-full.txt found
- ai.txt not found
- Nov 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
- Sep 2026 *: Allowed (was Restricted)
- Sep 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
- Aug 2026 *: Allowed (was Restricted)
- Aug 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| manhattan | #13 | 3,200 |
| douglas murray | #8 | 1,500 |
| city journal magazine | #3 | 790 |
| colin wright | #1 | 740 |
| manhattan institute for policy research | #1 | 580 |
| abigail shrier | #4 | 530 |
| ilya shapiro | #2 | 480 |
| heather macdonald | #2 | 390 |
| gops | #50 | 280 |
| perot | #58 | 280 |
| herb london | #6 | 220 |
| jason l riley | #3 | 220 |
| heather mac donald | #2 | 210 |
| reihan salam | #2 | 210 |
| new tappan zee bridge | #12 | 200 |
| tappan zee bridge | #12 | 200 |
| new york department of revenue | #24 | 170 |
| paul singer | #8 | 160 |
| tappan zee bridge new york | #8 | 160 |
| founding fathers of the united states | #82 | 160 |
| what is the manhattan institute | #1 | 150 |
| john ketcham | #1 | 150 |
| tal fortgang | #1 | 150 |
| venezuela and socialism | #2 | 140 |
| mark mills | #1 | 130 |
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 AI crawlers blocked
Standards: llms.txt, llms-full.txt
Audience
- 64% desktop
- 34% phone
- 1% tablet
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Philippines
India
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
7.44 / 10 · ranked #21,082 of all domains
1,157 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
23,500 est. monthly organic visits (US)
12,376 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Amazon CloudFront
- Weight: 2.6 MB · 97 requests
- WordPress theme: mi-theme · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
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city-journal.org 3 sharedchristianitytoday.com 3 shared
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dailymemphian.com 3 shared
Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- Manhattan Institute (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research on Wikidata)
- Founded: 1978
- Country: United States
- Profiles: Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Jun 2016 (10 years) via GoDaddy.com, LLC, renews Jun 2034
- Hosted on Amazon Web Services (99.84.237.57)
- DNS: Amazon Route 53
- Email: Microsoft 365
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC quarantine
- SSL: Amazon Trust Services, RSA 2048, wildcard, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 456,022, 12 hosts
- Verified with: Airtable, Atlassian, Google, KnowBe4, Notion, OpenAI
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| manhattan.institute | 35 |
| static-cj.manhattan.institute | 25 |
| thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute | 20 |
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