What powers independent.co.uk?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 110 technologies across 36 categories
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AI Crawlers
Blocks 2 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt, restricts 1 more. Checked Sep 2026.
Training crawlers
- Applebot-Extended Blocked
- Bytespider Restricted
Search and AI assistants
- PetalBot Blocked
The other 30 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
- Sep 2026 applebot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 applebot-extended added to robots.txt
- Sep 2026 bytespider added to robots.txt
- Sep 2026 petalbot added to robots.txt
- Sep 2026 petalbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 applebot added to robots.txt
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| independent | #1 | 25,100 |
| thailand | #11 | 5,000 |
| down twitter | #4 | 4,900 |
| united kingdom newspaper | #3 | 3,200 |
| twin peaks tv show | #85 | 3,200 |
| twitter down | #5 | 2,600 |
| ukraine | #93 | 2,600 |
| netflix streaming | #60 | 2,100 |
| florida attorney general pam bondi | #84 | 2,100 |
| russia | #87 | 1,900 |
| jay zee | #84 | 1,700 |
| hurricane melissa | #62 | 1,700 |
| rich quan | #14 | 1,700 |
| formula one standings | #18 | 1,200 |
| chernobyl accident | #62 | 1,200 |
| spectrum outage | #68 | 1,200 |
| andrew tate | #84 | 1,200 |
| nba news news | #97 | 1,200 |
| grenoble disaster | #43 | 1,200 |
| sharon osbourne | #20 | 1,100 |
| playstation 5 | #36 | 1,100 |
| ufc pound for pound rankings | #14 | 1,000 |
| news putin | #7 | 950 |
| brendan fr | #73 | 950 |
| spain | #66 | 950 |
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.
AI Crawlers
2 of 33 AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 88% phone
- 8% desktop
- 4% tablet
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
France
South Africa
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
9.02 / 10 · ranked #328 of all domains
56,638 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
272,800 est. monthly organic visits (US)
191,386 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.5 s |
| INP | 200 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Fastly
- Weight: 5.1 MB · 2,538 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Similar sites
- the-independent.com 6 shared
- huffingtonpost.co.uk 4 shared
nowness.com 4 shared
standard.co.uk 4 shared
comicsalliance.com 3 shared
drweil.com 3 sharedgolosameriki.com 3 shared
insidevoa.com 3 shared
Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- The Independent
- Founded: 1986
- Sector: journalism
- Country: United Kingdom
- Profiles: X, Facebook, YouTube
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Feb 1996 (30 years) via Nom-IQ Limited t/a Com Laude, renews Feb 2027
- Hosted on Fastly (151.101.1.184)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC quarantine, CAA
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 149, 73 hosts
- Verified with: Adobe, Apple Business, GlobalSign, Google, Meta Business, Microsoft 365, Pinterest
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| directory.independent.co.uk | 41 |
| link.e.independent.co.uk | 36 |
| www.independent.co.uk | 36 |
| courses.independent.co.uk | 25 |
| puzzles.independent.co.uk | 25 |
| wine.independent.co.uk | 24 |
| independentjobs.independent.co.uk | 20 |
| financial-advisor.independent.co.uk | 17 |
| sanmiguelrichlist.independent.co.uk | 16 |
| usapp.independent.co.uk | 14 |
| app.independent.co.uk | 13 |
| edition.independent.co.uk | 11 |
| help.independent.co.uk | 11 |
| subscriptions.independent.co.uk | 9 |
| partner.independent.co.uk | 8 |
| fip.independent.co.uk | 7 |
| register.independent.co.uk | 6 |
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- dropped AdRecover Aug 2026
- detected OpenX Aug 2026
- dropped OpenX Jul 2026
- detected AdRecover Jun 2026
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- detected Crazy Egg Mar 2026
- detected Preact Feb 2026
- dropped Backbone.js Dec 2025
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- detected Braze Oct 2025