What powers 
publicola.com?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 29 technologies across 15 categories
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AI Crawlers
Doesn't mention any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt; all are allowed by default. Checked Oct 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 53% phone
- 47% desktop
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
4.44 / 10 · ranked #411,400 of all domains
194 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.1 s |
| INP | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 2.3 MB · 66 requests
- WordPress theme: dailymag · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026).
Infrastructure
- Registered Sep 2007 (19 years) via Go Canada Domains, LLC, renews Sep 2029
- Hosted on Automattic (WordPress.com) (192.0.78.142)
- DNS: WordPress.com DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 476,193, 2 hosts
- 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
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- detected lit-element Sep 2026
- detected lit-html Sep 2026
- detected Cloudflare Aug 2026
- detected Cloudflare Bot Management Aug 2026
- dropped HTTP/3 Jul 2026
- dropped Patreon Jul 2026
- dropped Cloudflare Jun 2026
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management Jun 2026
- detected Patreon May 2026
- detected Cloudflare Apr 2026
- detected Cloudflare Bot Management Apr 2026
- dropped Cloudflare Mar 2026
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management Mar 2026
- detected GoDaddy CoBlocks Feb 2026
- dropped MediaElement.js Feb 2026
- detected Shortcodes Ultimate Feb 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Dec 2025
- dropped YouTube Nov 2025