What powers 
birmingham.ac.uk?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 99 technologies across 34 categories
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AI Crawlers
Doesn't name any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt. Catch-all rules (User-agent: *) restrict some paths for every crawler, AI or not. Checked Oct 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt found
- ai.txt not found
- Oct 2026 llms.txt appeared
- Oct 2026 llms.txt removed
- Sep 2026 llms.txt appeared
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| bham uk | #2 | 2,900 |
| canada | #91 | 1,700 |
| bam books | #41 | 1,400 |
| czechoslovakia republic | #8 | 980 |
| astronomy | #82 | 710 |
| history of language | #84 | 630 |
| society of vertebrate paleontology | #6 | 610 |
| thomas brodie | #18 | 610 |
| thomas brodie | #18 | 610 |
| czechoslovakia country | #9 | 500 |
| alice roberts | #4 | 440 |
| sovereignty | #69 | 350 |
| fluorine 18 | #13 | 330 |
| the exchange | #54 | 280 |
| john holmes | #17 | 260 |
| anderson paul | #28 | 230 |
| ariel sharon israel | #8 | 200 |
| what does with it mean | #49 | 190 |
| bds degree | #6 | 180 |
| team umi | #75 | 170 |
| beng degree | #7 | 170 |
| chose | #76 | 160 |
| trepidation | #80 | 160 |
| symbiosis | #45 | 140 |
| aerospace engineering | #86 | 140 |
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
No AI crawlers blocked
Standards: llms.txt
Audience
- 55% desktop
- 43% phone
- 2% tablet
United Kingdom
India
United Arab Emirates
United States
Canada
Pakistan
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
8.30 / 10 · ranked #3,943 of all domains
6,993 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
39,700 est. monthly organic visits (US)
31,245 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.4 s |
| INP | 175 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- CDN: Fastly
- Weight: 2.0 MB · 54 requests
- WordPress theme: tux-wp (child: tux-wp-uob) · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
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Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- University of Birmingham
- Founded: 1900
- Industry: Education (declares
CollegeOrUniversity) - Country: United Kingdom
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on JANET Jisc Services Limited (147.188.217.187)
- DNS: bham.ac.uk
- Email: Proofpoint Essentials
- Email security: no SPF record, DMARC reject
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 7,229, 24 hosts
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| landing.birmingham.ac.uk | 32 |
| hub.birmingham.ac.uk | 29 |
| onlineprogrammes.birmingham.ac.uk | 24 |
| bootcamp.birmingham.ac.uk | 23 |
| fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk | 23 |
| pre16.birmingham.ac.uk | 17 |
| welcome.birmingham.ac.uk | 15 |
| www.birmingham.ac.uk | 15 |
| intranet.birmingham.ac.uk | 14 |
| research.birmingham.ac.uk | 14 |
| www.intranet.birmingham.ac.uk | 14 |
| pathways.birmingham.ac.uk | 13 |
| cn.birmingham.ac.uk | 12 |
| yourpage.birmingham.ac.uk | 11 |
| reportandsupport.birmingham.ac.uk | 6 |
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Recent changes
- dropped BugSnag Jun 2026
- dropped Google Ads Jun 2026
- dropped Google Ads Conversion Tracking Jun 2026
- dropped Microsoft Advertising Jun 2026
- detected Reddit Ads Apr 2026
- dropped Apache HTTP Server Mar 2026
- dropped Autoptimize Feb 2026
- dropped Axios Feb 2026
- dropped Google Cloud Feb 2026
- dropped Google Cloud Trace Feb 2026
- dropped hCaptcha Feb 2026
- dropped LazySizes Feb 2026
- dropped New Relic Feb 2026
- detected React Router Nov 2025