What powers roughtype.com?
Last seen Jun 2026 · 14 technologies across 10 categories
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| d carr | #59 | 320 |
| nicholas carr | #3 | 230 |
| nicholas g carr | #3 | 23 |
| sharecropper | #62 | 9 |
| realtime or real-time | #6 | 5 |
| larry page and sergey brin | #66 | 5 |
| hello ipad | #3 | 5 |
| wikipedia slogan | #4 | 3 |
| reverse salient | #4 | 3 |
| sergey brin and larry page | #71 | 3 |
| nicholas carr articles | #3 | 3 |
| in real time | #33 | 3 |
| bondi blue | #28 | 2 |
| the big switch book | #5 | 2 |
| twitter university | #5 | 2 |
| what gets measured gets managed | #64 | 2 |
| autopilot aviation | #74 | 2 |
| nick carr | #15 | 2 |
| nicholas carr the big switch | #6 | 2 |
| pynchon luddite | #4 | 2 |
| joseph weizenbaum | #86 | 2 |
| crooked minded meaning | #6 | 1 |
| context collapse definition | #9 | 1 |
| the dalles oregon google | #67 | 1 |
| what is context collapse | #12 | 1 |
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.
Open Page Rank
6.56 / 10 · ranked #72,089 of all domains
708 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
650 est. monthly organic visits (US)
175 keywords in Google's top 30
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 8.0 MB · 99 requests
- WordPress theme: twentytwelve · all themes
- Structured data: OpenGraph
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