What powers paulgraham.com?
Last seen Jun 2026 · 6 technologies across 4 categories
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since Feb 2022
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since Nov 2021
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RSS
since Dec 2022
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| work hard | #1 | 2,300 |
| paul graham y combinator | #3 | 1,400 |
| heresy | #27 | 1,300 |
| yc | #4 | 1,200 |
| python | #35 | 770 |
| hacker news | #6 | 560 |
| how to get rich | #6 | 460 |
| paul graham essays | #1 | 430 |
| disagree | #5 | 430 |
| black swan | #87 | 420 |
| writing | #20 | 360 |
| writing | #40 | 320 |
| how to start a startup | #1 | 270 |
| equity equation | #1 | 270 |
| nerd | #68 | 260 |
| argument ad hominem | #37 | 230 |
| ad hominem | #39 | 230 |
| earnest | #29 | 230 |
| design and research | #1 | 220 |
| return on the mac | #16 | 210 |
| good writing | #1 | 180 |
| is life short | #6 | 150 |
| charisma | #36 | 140 |
| paul graham essays | #3 | 140 |
| jessica livingston | #5 | 140 |
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.
Audience
- 50% desktop
- 49% phone
- 1% tablet
Pakistan
Switzerland
South Africa
Singapore
Ireland
United Arab Emirates
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
8.33 / 10 · ranked #3,616 of all domains
5,951 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
19,800 est. monthly organic visits (US)
8,261 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Weight: 0.1 MB · 16 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| paulgraham.com | 6 |
| www.paulgraham.com | 6 |