What powers scientificamerican.com?

Last seen Jun 2026 · 33 technologies across 19 categories

Advertising

Google Publisher Tag
since Feb 2021
Twitter Ads
since Jan 2022

Analytics

Chartbeat
since Apr 2021
Facebook Pixel v2.9.161
since Sep 2021
Google Analytics
since Jun 2018

Caching

Varnish
since Jun 2018

CDN

Amazon S3
since Aug 2022
Cloudflare
since Apr 2022
Google Hosted Libraries
since Jun 2025

Cookie compliance

OneTrust
since Aug 2020

Customer data platform

Segment v4.15.3
since Apr 2023

Issue trackers

Sentry
since Feb 2024

JavaScript libraries

core-js v3.46.0
since Sep 2021
jQuery v1.7.2
since Jun 2018
Modernizr v2.5.3
since Jun 2025

Miscellaneous

Babel
since Mar 2020
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
Permutive
since Jun 2021
RSS
since Mar 2024

PaaS

Amazon Web Services
since Dec 2021

Performance

Priority Hints
since Feb 2024

Personalisation

Cxense
since May 2023
Piano
since May 2023

Programming languages

Java
since Sep 2021

Reverse proxies

Envoy
since Feb 2026

Security

Cloudflare Bot Management
since Apr 2022
HSTS
since Sep 2022
reCAPTCHA
since Apr 2022

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Jun 2018

UI frameworks

Bootstrap
since Jun 2018

Video players

VideoJS
since Apr 2022

Web servers

Apache HTTP Server
since Apr 2020
Nginx
since Jun 2018

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
anti inflammatory supplements #1 18,400
what colors do dogs see #1 13,800
male birth control #1 11,300
brontosaurus #3 10,700
scientific scientific #3 8,800
scientific american #1 8,200
photograph of an atom #1 6,700
moebius loop #2 6,600
new color #1 6,200
japanese flu #1 6,200
dogs and wolves #4 6,000
orac #9 5,500
male contraceptive #3 4,800
artificial general intelligence #80 4,700
genetically modified #72 4,700
genetically modified #40 4,700
scientific magazine #1 4,500
mri accidents #1 4,500
quantum superposition #19 4,100
are viruses alive #1 3,700
male birth control pill #1 3,700
elephant toothpaste chemistry experiment #2 3,600
intermittency #7 3,500
sand worms #3 3,200
raccoon animal #10 3,100

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.

Audience

  • 76% phone
  • 21% desktop
  • 3% tablet
  • United States
  • Canada
  • Australia
  • Singapore
  • Ireland
  • New Zealand

Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.

Open Page Rank

8.88 / 10 · ranked #577 of all domains

37,552 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

976,600 est. monthly organic visits (US)

345,261 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.8 s
INP125 ms
CLS0
TTFB700 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.

Page

  • Language: English
  • CDN: Fastly
  • Weight: 5.5 MB · 73 requests
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.

Subdomains

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blogs.scientificamerican.com 23
www.scientificamerican.com 12
subscribe.scientificamerican.com 8
links.email.scientificamerican.com 2
static.scientificamerican.com 2

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