What powers somethingawful.com?
Last seen Jun 2026 · 22 technologies across 14 categories
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| somethingawful | #1 | 1,500 |
| sa forum | #1 | 1,300 |
| charlie and the chocolate factory factory | #74 | 630 |
| beastforum | #2 | 210 |
| forums | #9 | 110 |
| mac and me | #42 | 100 |
| santa's slay movie | #14 | 83 |
| princess tomato in the salad kingdom | #4 | 66 |
| piata: survival island | #6 | 54 |
| how i live now film | #19 | 49 |
| x-files intro face | #2 | 42 |
| the stuff | #50 | 38 |
| awful | #23 | 38 |
| pube | #27 | 38 |
| hard to kill movie | #36 | 38 |
| slender man something awful | #2 | 34 |
| internet forum | #5 | 34 |
| forums something awful | #1 | 33 |
| forums something awful | #1 | 33 |
| vghs the movie | #29 | 31 |
| internet tough guy | #3 | 31 |
| internet firearms database | #9 | 29 |
| butterfly effect 3 movie | #17 | 28 |
| charlie bucket chocolate factory | #21 | 28 |
| bad xmas gifts | #5 | 28 |
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
- 71% desktop
- 27% phone
- 3% tablet
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
Sweden
Ireland
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
7.02 / 10 · ranked #41,972 of all domains
1,164 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
7,500 est. monthly organic visits (US)
4,591 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 0.6 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 300 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 0.1 MB · 15 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| js.somethingawful.com | 12 |
| store.somethingawful.com | 11 |
| www.somethingawful.com | 10 |
| forums.somethingawful.com | 8 |
| secure.somethingawful.com | 7 |