What powers 
h-net.org?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 28 technologies across 14 categories
Analytics
CMS
Databases
DMS
Ecommerce
Font scripts
JavaScript libraries
Miscellaneous
PaaS
Programming languages
Security
UI frameworks
Web servers
WordPress plugins
AI Crawlers
Blocks 16 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Nov 2026. A recent check saw a policy file missing; awaiting confirmation.
Training crawlers
- Bytespider Blocked
- CCBot Blocked
- ClaudeBot Blocked
- Diffbot Blocked
- FacebookBot Blocked
- Google-Extended Blocked
- GPTBot Blocked
- ImagesiftBot Blocked
- meta-externalagent Blocked
Search and AI assistants
- Amazonbot Blocked
- Applebot Blocked
- OAI-SearchBot Blocked
- PerplexityBot Blocked
- PetalBot Blocked
- YouBot Blocked
User-request fetchers
- meta-externalfetcher Blocked
The other 17 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
- Oct 2026 oai-searchbot added to robots.txt
- Oct 2026 claudebot added to robots.txt
- Oct 2026 diffbot added to robots.txt
- Oct 2026 facebookbot added to robots.txt
- Oct 2026 claude-web added to robots.txt
- Oct 2026 amazonbot added to robots.txt
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| lbj senate | #36 | 350 |
| al gore tennessee | #40 | 280 |
| king louis 12 | #4 | 190 |
| discussion | #82 | 140 |
| louis xii of france | #5 | 140 |
| mike davis ecology of fear | #7 | 74 |
| alamanni | #4 | 66 |
| h net | #2 | 65 |
| defying hitler | #2 | 52 |
| cosell howard | #79 | 38 |
| bruno hauptmann | #11 | 33 |
| high water | #36 | 29 |
| h-net commons | #2 | 28 |
| yoknapatawpha county | #7 | 23 |
| the cotton gin was invented by | #5 | 21 |
| katarina witt personal life | #3 | 20 |
| h-net reviews | #2 | 17 |
| cotton gin creator | #3 | 17 |
| defying hitler haffner | #3 | 17 |
| haffner defying hitler | #3 | 17 |
| lenin ethnicity | #3 | 17 |
| was leo frank innocent | #3 | 17 |
| u-234 | #4 | 17 |
| when was the cotton gin invented | #34 | 17 |
| the cotton gin | #37 | 17 |
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
16 of 33 AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 73% desktop
- 27% phone
United States
Canada
India
Germany
United Kingdom
Israel
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
7.74 / 10 · ranked #12,207 of all domains
2,433 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
3,400 est. monthly organic visits (US)
3,973 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.1 s |
| INP | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- Weight: 4.3 MB · 71 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
- H-Net
- Founded: 1993
- Country: United States
From Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Aug 2002 (24 years) via Amazon Registrar, Inc., renews Aug 2027
- Hosted on MISU-231 (35.9.18.4)
- DNS: Amazon Route 53
- Email: h-net.org
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC monitor only, CAA, MTA-STS, BIMI
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 9,785, 16 hosts
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 |
|---|---|
| conferences.h-net.org | 15 |
| clah.h-net.org | 11 |
| hnet30prod.h-net.org | 9 |
| jobs.h-net.org | 9 |
| journals.h-net.org | 9 |
| networks.h-net.org | 9 |
| www.h-net.org | 9 |
| lists.h-net.org | 3 |
| rmtrain.h-net.org | 3 |