What powers pentesterlab.com?

Last seen Oct 2026 · 19 technologies across 15 categories

Analytics

Branch
since Feb 2021
Google Analytics
since Jun 2018

Blogs

Medium
since May 2019

Email

Amazon SES
since Aug 2022

Font scripts

Google Font API
since Jul 2019

Miscellaneous

Open Graph
since Sep 2022
RSS
since Dec 2022

PaaS

Amazon Web Services
since Aug 2022

Payment processors

PayPal
since Apr 2022

Programming languages

Node.js
since May 2019
Ruby
since Jun 2018

Reverse proxies

Envoy
since Sep 2020

Search engines

Algolia
since Feb 2022

Security

HSTS
since Sep 2022

UI frameworks

Bootstrap
since Jul 2019

Web frameworks

Ruby on Rails
since Jun 2018

Web servers

Apache HTTP Server
since Jun 2018
Nginx
since May 2019

Webmail

Google Workspace
since Aug 2022

AI Crawlers

Doesn't mention any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt; all are allowed by default. Checked Nov 2026.

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
pentesterlab #1 220
penetration testing lab #1 64
pentesting #46 64
pen testing #51 57
pen test #55 57
ryan montgomery #67 38
pentest lab #1 32
guidepoint #75 31
security code #56 17
app lab #88 17
padding oracle attack #6 11
bug bounty #97 11
hs512 #7 9
pentester #36 9
penetration testing tools #43 9
hack code website #5 8
ssti #46 8
electronic code book #5 7
pentester login #2 6
http 10 #6 6
pentester safe #6 5
0day #24 5
pentester com review #7 4
hacking test sites #9 4
code hack #23 4

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

Standards: llms.txt, llms-full.txt

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 84% desktop
  • 16% phone
  • United States
  • India
  • Egypt
  • Indonesia
  • Brazil
  • Australia

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

Open Page Rank

5.31 / 10 · ranked #192,694 of all domains

233 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

870 est. monthly organic visits (US)

845 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.3 s
INP50 ms
CLS0
TTFB1000 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Oct 2026.

Page

  • Language: English
  • Weight: 5.4 MB · 18 requests
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.

Organisation

  • Industry: Education (declares Course)

From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026).

Infrastructure

  • Registered Aug 2011 (15 years) via Gandi SAS, renews Aug 2027
  • Hosted on Amazon Web Services (54.147.203.247)
  • DNS: Gandi
  • Email: Google Workspace
  • Email security: SPF (soft fail), no DMARC record
  • SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 706,651, 7 hosts
  • Verified with: Google

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

Subdomains

HostTechs
blog.pentesterlab.com 13
pentesterlab.com 11
www.pentesterlab.com 9

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