What powers mit.edu?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 629 technologies across 71 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 Sep 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
- Aug 2026 robots.txt appeared
- Aug 2026 * added to robots.txt
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| mit | #1 | 61,100 |
| massachusetts institute of technology | #1 | 33,400 |
| mit admissions | #2 | 2,900 |
| concentration gradient | #2 | 2,000 |
| blind source separation | #2 | 1,600 |
| objectification | #5 | 1,600 |
| where is mit | #3 | 1,200 |
| massachusetts institute of technology usa | #1 | 1,000 |
| concentration gradient definition | #1 | 880 |
| define concentration gradient | #1 | 880 |
| harvard bridge | #2 | 880 |
| x axis y axis graph | #4 | 800 |
| criterion versus criteria | #3 | 790 |
| mit campus tour | #1 | 730 |
| address mit | #1 | 730 |
| speed limit in residential district | #2 | 710 |
| mit meaning | #2 | 710 |
| michael patton | #7 | 690 |
| technical documentation | #44 | 630 |
| mit news | #2 | 580 |
| cambridge ma hotels near mit | #1 | 550 |
| what is mit | #1 | 550 |
| affect and effect | #21 | 520 |
| every english word | #1 | 490 |
| random walk | #2 | 470 |
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
Audience
- 80% desktop
- 13% phone
- 7% tablet
United States
Japan
Brazil
United Kingdom
Indonesia
Canada
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
9.18 / 10 · ranked #131 of all domains
83,094 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
161,200 est. monthly organic visits (US)
27,360 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 200 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 2.9 MB · 82 requests
- WordPress theme: cpschool (child: mit-flex) · all themes
- Structured data: Microdata
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Similar sites
- harvard.edu 123 shared
- utoronto.ca 107 shared
- columbia.edu 93 shared
- cornell.edu 87 shared
- berkeley.edu 107 shared
- cuhk.edu.hk 78 shared
- ca.gov 113 shared
- umich.edu 98 shared
Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Founded: 1861
- Sector: higher education
- Country: United States
From Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Akamai (23.214.225.151, IPv6)
- DNS: Akamai Edge DNS
- Email: Microsoft 365
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 264, 8,024 hosts
- Verified with: Adobe, Airtable, Amazon SES, Atlassian, Emma, Google, Jamf, OpenAI and 1 more
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| apply.emba.mit.edu | 50 |
| sicm.mitpress.mit.edu | 49 |
| brl.mit.edu | 42 |
| executive.mit.edu | 42 |
| hkinnovationnode.mit.edu | 42 |
| oeopconnect.mit.edu | 41 |
| legatum.mit.edu | 40 |
| cdoiq.mit.edu | 39 |
| mitcre.mit.edu | 39 |
| spanish.xpro.mit.edu | 37 |
| iwer.mit.edu | 36 |
| bootcamps.mit.edu | 35 |
| opendoclab.mit.edu | 35 |
| sdm.mit.edu | 35 |
| boyerlab.mit.edu | 34 |
| k12maker.mit.edu | 34 |
| react.mit.edu | 34 |
| sicp.mitpress.mit.edu | 34 |
| campusplanning.mit.edu | 33 |
| education.mit.edu | 33 |
| internetpolicy.mit.edu | 33 |
| mitp-web.mit.edu | 33 |
| mitsloan.mit.edu | 33 |
| nedivilab.mit.edu | 33 |
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