What powers practical-science.com?

Last seen Oct 2026 · 36 technologies across 18 categories

Advertising

Amazon Advertising
since Jun 2025
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since May 2023
Criteo
since May 2023
Google AdSense
since Jun 2025
Google Publisher Tag
since Jun 2025
ID5
since Oct 2023
Prebid
since Jun 2025
PubMatic
since May 2023
WordAds
since May 2023

Analytics

Google Analytics
since Jun 2025

CDN

Cloudflare
since Dec 2023

CMS

WordPress
since May 2023

Cookie compliance

Funding Choices
since Oct 2026

Databases

MySQL
since May 2023

Font scripts

Google Font API
since May 2023
Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)
since May 2024

JavaScript libraries

core-js v3.39.0
since May 2023
jQuery v3.7.1
since Jun 2023
jQuery Migrate v3.4.1
since Jun 2023
Swiper
since Apr 2025

Miscellaneous

HTTP/3
since Jan 2024
Open Graph
since May 2023
RSS
since May 2023

PaaS

WordPress.com
since May 2023

Page builders

WordPress Block Editor
since Apr 2025

Performance

Priority Hints
since Apr 2026

Programming languages

PHP
since May 2023

Security

HSTS
since May 2023
reCAPTCHA
since Jun 2025

Static site generator

Astro
since Oct 2026

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Dec 2023

Web servers

Nginx
since May 2023

WordPress plugins

GoDaddy CoBlocks
since Nov 2023
Gutenberg
since Apr 2026
Jetpack
since Apr 2026

AI Crawlers

Blocks 18 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Oct 2026.

Training crawlers

  • Applebot-Extended Blocked
  • Bytespider Blocked
  • CCBot Blocked
  • ClaudeBot Blocked
  • cohere-training-data-crawler Blocked
  • Diffbot Blocked
  • Google-CloudVertexBot Blocked
  • Google-Extended Blocked
  • GoogleOther Blocked
  • GPTBot Blocked
  • meta-externalagent Blocked

Search and AI assistants

  • Amazonbot Blocked
  • PetalBot Blocked

User-request fetchers

  • ChatGPT-User Blocked
  • Claude-User Blocked
  • meta-externalfetcher Blocked
  • MistralAI-User Blocked
  • Perplexity-User Blocked

The other 15 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.

Content Signals: search=yes ai-train=no declared in robots.txt

  • Oct 2026 petalbot added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 ccbot added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 chatgpt-user added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 bytespider added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 applebot-extended added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 claude-user added to robots.txt

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

AI Crawlers

18 of 33 AI crawlers blocked

Standards: llms.txt, llms-full.txt, Content Signals

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 75% desktop
  • 21% phone
  • 4% tablet
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Australia
  • Hong Kong SAR China
  • Indonesia
  • Philippines

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

Open Page Rank

0.11 / 10 · ranked #87,229,971 of all domains

0 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.5 s
INP50 ms
CLS0.05
TTFB600 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.

Page

  • Language: English (United Kingdom)
  • CDN: Cloudflare
  • Weight: 1.6 MB · 58 requests
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.

Organisation

  • Practical Science

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

Infrastructure

  • Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.5.39, IPv6)
  • DNS: Cloudflare DNS
  • Email: no MX record returned
  • Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC monitor only
  • SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 38,992,752
  • Verified with: OpenAI

DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026. How the web is hosted

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