What powers needs.ca?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 31 technologies across 16 categories
Analytics
CDN
CMS
WordPress
since Feb 2019
Databases
MySQL
since Feb 2019
Font scripts
Google Font API
since Feb 2019
JavaScript libraries
Maps
Google Maps
since Feb 2019
Miscellaneous
Page builders
Beaver Builder
since Jul 2024
Performance
Priority Hints
since Jun 2024
Programming languages
PHP
since Feb 2019
RUM
Akamai mPulse
since Mar 2026
Security
Akamai Bot Manager
since Jun 2026
Tag managers
Google Tag Manager
since Feb 2019
UI frameworks
ZURB Foundation
since Apr 2022
WordPress plugins
Formidable Form
since Apr 2022
Polylang
since Oct 2022
AI Crawlers
robots.txt could not be read at the last check (Oct 2026), so its policy is unknown.
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- ai.txt not checked
AI Crawlers
Policy unknown
Audience
- 84% phone
- 16% desktop
Canada
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
3.19 / 10 · ranked #1,279,104 of all domains
25 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (Canada)
- CDN: Akamai
- Weight: 2.7 MB · 116 requests
- WordPress theme: needs · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
- Needs Conveniece
- Country: Atlantic Canada
From Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on BACOM (184.150.70.121)
- DNS: Akamai Edge DNS
- Email: Proofpoint Essentials
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC reject
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 11,361,275, 3 hosts
- Verified with: Microsoft 365
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management Aug 2026
- detected Akamai Bot Manager Jun 2026
- dropped WP Engine May 2026
- detected Akamai Mar 2026
- detected Akamai mPulse Mar 2026
- detected Boomerang Mar 2026