What powers ref.ac.uk?
Last seen Jun 2026 · 31 technologies across 21 categories
Analytics
Azure Monitor
since Feb 2023
CDN
Amazon CloudFront
since Dec 2023
Amazon S3
since May 2024
CMS
WordPress
since Dec 2023
Cookie compliance
CIVIC
since Dec 2023
Databases
MySQL
since Dec 2023
Font scripts
Font Awesome
since Aug 2022
Google Font API
since Apr 2018
JavaScript libraries
Load balancers
Azure Front Door
since Aug 2022
Miscellaneous
RSS
since Dec 2023
Operating systems
Windows Server
since Aug 2018
PaaS
Amazon Web Services
since Dec 2023
Azure
since Sep 2021
Page builders
WordPress Site Editor
since Jul 2024
Performance
Priority Hints
since Aug 2024
Programming languages
PHP
since Dec 2023
RUM
Microsoft Application Insights
since Sep 2022
Security
HSTS
since Sep 2022
Tag managers
Google Tag Manager
since Jun 2018
UI frameworks
Bootstrap
since Apr 2018
GOV.UK Frontend
since Aug 2025
Web frameworks
Microsoft ASP.NET
since Apr 2018
Web servers
Webmail
Microsoft 365
since Aug 2022
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
Audience
- 80% desktop
- 20% phone
United Kingdom
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
7.02 / 10 · ranked #40,962 of all domains
734 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 0.8 s |
| INP | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Amazon CloudFront
- Weight: 1.6 MB · 25 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| 2029.ref.ac.uk | 15 |
| www.ref.ac.uk | 13 |
| impact.ref.ac.uk | 11 |
| results2021.ref.ac.uk | 11 |
| results.ref.ac.uk | 9 |
| 2021.ref.ac.uk | 7 |
| 2014.ref.ac.uk | 6 |
| archive.ref.ac.uk | 5 |
| ref.ac.uk | 4 |
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Recent changes
- detected GOV.UK Frontend Aug 2025