What powers v2ex.com?

Last seen Sep 2026 · 33 technologies across 18 categories

Advertising

Google AdSense
since Jun 2018

Analytics

Google Analytics
since Jun 2018
Plausible
since Nov 2023
Snowplow Analytics
since Nov 2024

Caching

Varnish
since Jul 2021

CDN

Cloudflare
since Jul 2019
Fastly
since Jul 2021

Cookie compliance

Funding Choices
since Feb 2024

Email

Google Workspace
since Aug 2022
Mailgun
since Aug 2022
Sendgrid
since Aug 2022

Font scripts

Font Awesome
since Jan 2016
Google Font API
since Nov 2025

JavaScript Graphics

Highcharts v3.0.5
since May 2019

JavaScript libraries

Axios
since Jul 2021
Dropzone v5.7.2
since Jul 2022
Highlight.js
since Jun 2018
jQuery v3.5.1
since Jan 2016
jQuery UI v1.12.1
since Jan 2016
Select2
since Jan 2016

Miscellaneous

HTTP/3
since Sep 2022
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
RSS
since Dec 2022

Network storage

IPFS
since Nov 2023

PaaS

GitHub Pages
since Jul 2021

Performance

Priority Hints
since Sep 2026

Programming languages

Ruby
since Jul 2021

Security

Cloudflare Bot Management
since Dec 2024
HSTS
since Sep 2022
reCAPTCHA
since Apr 2022

Static site generator

Jekyll v3.9.3
since Jul 2021

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Feb 2022

Web Servers

TornadoServer v4.4.3
since Jan 2016

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 Oct 2026.

  • robots.txt found
  • llms.txt not found
  • ai.txt not found

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
v2ex #1 250
icloud keychain #95 17
v2ex rss #3 9
seafile #69 8
micu emby #2 8
rc20 #89 5
v2ex rss #5 4
htf cuddles #82 4
htf cuddles #66 4
v2ex polish #4 3
wakarimasen #80 3
ayumilove #37 3
avaloniaui #69 3
goofish #96 3
infuse on apple tv #86 3
flycut #48 3
byby #76 2
c# timespan #59 2
ccxt #85 2
cloudcone #78 2
urllib #78 2
smartgit #95 2
mybatis #70 2
life force salamander #57 2
modelmakerapp #9 2

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

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 88% desktop
  • 12% phone
  • United States
  • Japan
  • Singapore
  • Hong Kong SAR China
  • China
  • Taiwan

Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.

Open Page Rank

7.72 / 10 · ranked #12,618 of all domains

2,651 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

440 est. monthly organic visits (US)

983 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.2 s
INP25 ms
CLS0
TTFB500 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.

Page

  • Language: Chinese (China)
  • CDN: Cloudflare
  • Weight: 1.6 MB · 216 requests
  • Structured data: OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.

Organisation

  • V2EX

From Wikidata (CC0).

Infrastructure

  • Registered Jun 2005 (21 years) via Cloudflare, Inc., renews Jun 2027
  • Hosted on Cloudflare (172.66.133.207, IPv6)
  • DNS: Cloudflare DNS
  • Email: Google Workspace
  • Email security: SPF (soft fail), no DMARC record, DNSSEC signed
  • SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 8,906, 34 hosts
  • Verified with: Brave Creators, GlobalSign, Google

DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted

Subdomains

HostTechs
jp.v2ex.com 23
www.v2ex.com 21
cn.v2ex.com 20
de.v2ex.com 20
edge.v2ex.com 20
fast.v2ex.com 20
global.v2ex.com 20
hk.v2ex.com 20
origin.v2ex.com 20
us.v2ex.com 20
s.v2ex.com 19
staging.v2ex.com 19
v2ex.com 19
livid.v2ex.com 12
blog.v2ex.com 10
jiasule.v2ex.com 9
neue.v2ex.com 9
lax.v2ex.com 8
pagespeed.v2ex.com 8

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