What powers popularmechanics.com?
Last seen Jun 2026 · 76 technologies across 29 categories
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| lowe's home improvement | #27 | 11,800 |
| strange birds | #1 | 6,700 |
| popular mechanics magazine | #1 | 6,700 |
| teleportation | #2 | 6,000 |
| popmech | #1 | 5,100 |
| artificial general intelligence | #46 | 4,700 |
| edmund fitzgerald ship | #6 | 4,600 |
| pirate shipwreck | #17 | 4,300 |
| colossal squid | #6 | 3,700 |
| best line trimmer | #1 | 3,000 |
| best weed wacker | #1 | 3,000 |
| cat | #25 | 2,900 |
| cordless power washer | #2 | 2,400 |
| cordless power washer | #2 | 2,400 |
| magnetic north pole moving | #4 | 2,200 |
| magnetic north pole movement | #4 | 2,200 |
| best zero turn riding mowers | #1 | 2,000 |
| earth tilt | #1 | 1,800 |
| floresiensis | #4 | 1,800 |
| portable air conditioner | #12 | 1,700 |
| best generator for home | #1 | 1,700 |
| giant cranch squid | #9 | 1,700 |
| thorium generator | #2 | 1,600 |
| electric chain saws | #5 | 1,600 |
| poverty point | #3 | 1,400 |
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
- 89% phone
- 7% desktop
- 4% tablet
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
South Africa
Singapore
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
8.55 / 10 · ranked #2,005 of all domains
11,323 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
506,700 est. monthly organic visits (US)
378,763 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.6 s |
| INP | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- CDN: Fastly
- Weight: 5.0 MB · 416 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| www.popularmechanics.com | 43 |
| shop.popularmechanics.com | 38 |
| link.popularmechanics.com | 33 |
| print.popularmechanics.com | 12 |
| service.popularmechanics.com | 11 |
| join.popularmechanics.com | 10 |
| subscriptions.popularmechanics.com | 3 |
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- detected Amazon ALB May 2026
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- detected Cloudflare Bot Management May 2026
- dropped Google Font API May 2026
- detected Google Font API Mar 2026
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