What powers 
programmingisterrible.com?
Last seen Jul 2026 · 17 technologies across 14 categories
Advertising
Google Publisher Tag
since Oct 2025
Analytics
comScore
since Feb 2019
Google Analytics
since Feb 2019
Blogs
Tumblr
since Feb 2019
CMS
WordPress
since Jul 2022
Databases
MySQL
since Jul 2022
Hosting
GoDaddy
since Feb 2023
JavaScript frameworks
JavaScript libraries
Underscore.js
since Feb 2019
Miscellaneous
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
RSS
since Dec 2022
Programming languages
PHP
since Jul 2022
Security
HSTS
since Sep 2022
Tag managers
Google Tag Manager
since Oct 2025
Video players
YouTube
since Feb 2019
Web servers
Nginx
since Feb 2019
AI Crawlers
Blocks 10 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Oct 2026.
Training crawlers
- Applebot-Extended Blocked
- CCBot Blocked
- ClaudeBot Blocked
- FacebookBot Blocked
- Google-Extended Blocked
- ImagesiftBot Blocked
- meta-externalagent Blocked
- Webzio-Extended Blocked
Search and AI assistants
- Amazonbot Blocked
- YouBot Blocked
The other 23 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
AI Crawlers
10 of 33 AI crawlers blocked
Open Page Rank
4.63 / 10 · ranked #381,932 of all domains
137 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Infrastructure
- Registered Jul 2012 (14 years) via Mesh Digital Limited, renews Jul 2027
- Hosted on Automattic (WordPress.com) (66.6.44.4)
- DNS: GoDaddy DNS
- Email: 123-reg.co.uk
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), no DMARC record
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 4096, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 1,883,436
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted