What powers ricochet.com?

Last seen Aug 2026 · 40 technologies across 22 categories

Advertising

Twitter Ads
since Dec 2022

Analytics

Chartbeat
since Jun 2018
Google Analytics
since Jun 2018

Blogs

WordPress
since May 2017

Caching

Redis Object Cache
since Jul 2020

CDN

cdnjs
since Oct 2025
Cloudflare
since May 2017

Databases

MySQL
since Jun 2018
Redis
since Jul 2020

Font Scripts

Font Awesome v6.5.2
since May 2017
Google Font API
since May 2017

JavaScript Frameworks

Backbone.js v1.4.0
since May 2019
Handlebars v4.0.10
since May 2017
jQuery v3.6.0
since May 2017
jQuery Migrate v3.3.2
since May 2017
Modernizr
since May 2017

JavaScript Libraries

core-js v3.19.1
since Sep 2021
FancyBox v2.1.5
since Jun 2018
jQuery UI v1.13.1
since Jun 2018
Slick
since Jun 2018
Swiper
since Sep 2022
Underscore.js v1.13.1
since May 2019

Miscellaneous

Open Graph
since Sep 2022

PaaS

Amazon Web Services
since Aug 2022

Payment processors

Stripe
since Aug 2022

Performance

LazySizes
since Jul 2025

Programming languages

PHP
since Jun 2018

Security

Cloudflare Bot Management
since Jan 2022
HSTS
since Sep 2022
reCAPTCHA
since May 2024

SEO

The SEO Framework
since Jul 2022

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Jun 2018

Video Players

MediaElement.js v4.2.6
since Jun 2018
YouTube
since May 2017

Web Frameworks

ZURB Foundation v6.4.2
since May 2017

Webmail

Google Workspace
since Aug 2022

Widgets

OWL Carousel
since Jun 2018
Twitter
since Jun 2018

WordPress plugins

EWWW Image Optimizer
since Jul 2025

AI Crawlers

Blocks 10 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Sep 2026.

Training crawlers

  • AI2Bot Blocked
  • Bytespider Blocked
  • CCBot Blocked
  • ClaudeBot Blocked
  • GPTBot Blocked
  • ImagesiftBot Blocked
  • meta-externalagent Blocked

Search and AI assistants

  • Amazonbot Blocked
  • PerplexityBot Blocked
  • PetalBot 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

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
marion ross #91 130
three martini lunch podcast #2 88
3 martini lunch #5 75
ricochet podcast #2 72
old auld lang syne #43 52
communist nations #53 47
tom troupe #82 38
ricochet meaning #59 38
lawfare #89 38
here we go again #50 38
here i go again #36 38
define ricochet #52 38
sandra bullock husband #74 29
glop podcast #2 23
the lost world novel #81 21
suddenly susan #73 21
al kaline baseball #94 21
all men are created equal #86 21
and here i go again on my own #30 21
absurdist #95 21
here i go on my own #52 21
here i go again on my own #45 21
frame it easy #69 21
frame it easy #69 21
the ricochet #3 19

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

10 of 33 AI crawlers blocked

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 51% desktop
  • 49% phone
  • United States

Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.

Open Page Rank

5.82 / 10 · ranked #126,775 of all domains

570 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

1,600 est. monthly organic visits (US)

2,038 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP3.3 s
INP75 ms
CLS0
TTFB2600 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.

Page

  • Language: English (United States)
  • Weight: 5.7 MB · 156 requests
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.

Organisation

  • Ricochet
  • Founded: 2010

From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).

Infrastructure

  • Hosted on HVC-AS (69.46.21.62, IPv6)
  • Email: Google Workspace
  • Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC reject, DNSSEC signed
  • SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Oct 2026
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 431,513, 10 hosts
  • Verified with: Google, Stripe

DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted

Subdomains

HostTechs
ricochet.com 31
www.ricochet.com 22

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