What powers mercatus.com?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 38 technologies across 22 categories
Advertising
Analytics
Caching
CDN
CMS
Cookie compliance
Databases
Ecommerce
JavaScript libraries
Load balancers
Marketing automation
Miscellaneous
PaaS
Performance
Programming languages
Security
SEO
Tag managers
UI frameworks
Video players
Webmail
WordPress plugins
AI Crawlers
Blocks 8 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Sep 2026.
Training crawlers
- Applebot-Extended Blocked
- Bytespider Blocked
- CCBot Blocked
- ClaudeBot Blocked
- Google-Extended Blocked
- GPTBot Blocked
- meta-externalagent Blocked
Search and AI assistants
- Amazonbot Blocked
The other 25 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt found
- ai.txt not found
Content Signals:
search=yes ai-train=no declared in robots.txt
- Sep 2026 bytespider added to robots.txt
- Sep 2026 amazonbot added to robots.txt
- Sep 2026 applebot-extended added to robots.txt
- Sep 2026 meta-externalagent added to robots.txt
- Sep 2026 ccbot added to robots.txt
- Sep 2026 claudebot added to robots.txt
AI Crawlers
8 of 33 AI crawlers blocked
Standards: llms.txt, Content Signals
Audience
- 100% phone
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
4.74 / 10 · ranked #281,969 of all domains
131 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 3.9 s |
| INP | 250 ms |
| CLS | 0.9 |
| TTFB | 600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 0.2 MB · 13 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.20.11.125, IPv6)
- Email: no MX record returned, SPF names Microsoft 365
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC reject
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Oct 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 1,906,388, 5 hosts
- Verified with: Apple Business, Atlassian, Google, KnowBe4, Microsoft 365
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| www.mercatus.com | 22 |
| mercatus.com | 21 |
| info.mercatus.com | 12 |
| id.mercatus.com | 9 |
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Recent changes
- dropped Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement May 2026
- dropped Facebook Pixel Feb 2026
- dropped Sleeknote Feb 2026
- detected Draftpress HFCM Jan 2026
- detected Facebook Pixel Dec 2025
- detected Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement Dec 2025
- detected Sleeknote Dec 2025
- detected HTTP/3 Oct 2025