What powers plainenglish.com?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 44 technologies across 21 categories
Analytics
CDN
CMS
Cookie compliance
Databases
Font scripts
JavaScript frameworks
JavaScript libraries
Live chat
Miscellaneous
PaaS
Page builders
Performance
Programming languages
Tag managers
Video players
Web servers
Webmail
Widgets
WordPress plugins
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
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 50% desktop
- 50% phone
India
Brazil
United Kingdom
United States
Canada
Iran
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
3.39 / 10 · ranked #1,013,108 of all domains
41 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 4 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 2600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 2.5 MB · 92 requests
- WordPress theme: plainenglish-theme · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.21.19, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Microsoft 365
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 2,550,501, 4 hosts
- Verified with: Google, Microsoft 365
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| plainenglish.com | 33 |
| www.plainenglish.com | 20 |
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Recent changes
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management Oct 2026
- detected Plausible Oct 2026
- dropped Vimeo Oct 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Jan 2026