What powers shirky.com?
Last seen Nov 2025 · 13 technologies across 10 categories
Caching
WordPress Super Cache
since Nov 2025
CMS
Databases
MySQL
since Nov 2025
Font scripts
Font Awesome
since Nov 2025
Google Font API
since Nov 2025
Hosting
DreamHost
since Nov 2025
JavaScript libraries
Miscellaneous
Open Graph
since Nov 2025
RSS
since Nov 2025
Programming languages
PHP
since Nov 2025
Web servers
Apache HTTP Server
since May 2019
WordPress plugins
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 found
- ai.txt not found
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Standards: llms.txt
Open Page Rank
7.02 / 10 · ranked #40,777 of all domains
1,125 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Infrastructure
- Hosted on DreamHost (173.236.243.81)
- Email: DreamHost
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), no DMARC record
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 429,084, 3 hosts
DNS records as swept Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| shirky.com | 13 |
| www.shirky.com | 1 |