What powers southernexposure.com?

Last seen Sep 2026 · 42 technologies across 22 categories

Analytics

Google Analytics vUA
since Jun 2018

Caching

Varnish
since Jul 2021

CDN

Cloudflare
since Mar 2023

CMS

WordPress v7.1
since Jul 2021

Databases

MySQL
since Jul 2021

Ecommerce

Cart Functionality
since Aug 2020
Shopify
since Mar 2023

Email

MailChimp
since Mar 2023
Mailgun
since Aug 2022

Font scripts

Font Awesome
since Aug 2022
Google Font API
since Dec 2019
Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)
since Jul 2021

JavaScript libraries

core-js v3.37.0
since Mar 2023
jQuery v3.7.1
since Aug 2016
jQuery Migrate v3.4.1
since Jul 2021
jQuery UI v1.8.21
since Aug 2022
LazySizes
since Mar 2022

Live chat

Intercom
since Feb 2023

Miscellaneous

Azure Edge Network
since Jul 2023
Gravatar
since Aug 2022
HTTP/3
since Mar 2023
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
PWA
since Aug 2022
RSS
since Dec 2022
Webpack
since Dec 2019

Operating systems

Windows Server
since Mar 2021

PaaS

Azure
since Mar 2022

Payment processors

American Express
since Jul 2024
Apple Pay
since Feb 2025
Google Pay
since Feb 2025
Mastercard
since Jul 2024
Visa
since Jul 2024

Performance

Priority Hints
since Mar 2023

Programming languages

PHP
since Jun 2018

Security

Cloudflare Bot Management
since May 2026
HSTS
since Sep 2022

SEO

All in One SEO v5.0.1.1
since Jul 2024

UI frameworks

Bootstrap
since Aug 2016

Web frameworks

Microsoft ASP.NET v4.0.30319
since Mar 2021

Web servers

IIS v10.0
since Mar 2021
Nginx v1.26.3
since Dec 2019

WordPress themes

Twenty Fourteen
since Feb 2022

AI Crawlers

Blocks 7 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Oct 2026.

Training crawlers

  • CCBot Blocked
  • ClaudeBot Blocked
  • Diffbot Blocked
  • GPTBot Blocked

Search and AI assistants

  • Amazonbot Blocked
  • OAI-SearchBot Blocked

User-request fetchers

  • ChatGPT-User Blocked

The other 26 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.

  • Oct 2026 ccbot added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 oai-searchbot added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 gptbot added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 claudebot added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 chatgpt-user added to robots.txt
  • Oct 2026 diffbot added to robots.txt

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
southern seed exchange #1 730
seed exchange #2 210
wormwood #88 190
mustard greens raw #5 170
sunflower foliage #6 150
husk tomato #2 140
husk tomatoes #1 80
soapwort seedlings #1 79
loose leaf lettuce varieties #1 79
zone 7a planting schedule pdf #1 64
southern exposure seed catalog #1 64
ginseng plant cost #1 64
hibiscus sabdariffa plant #13 58
sweet potato slips #24 57
heritage vegetables #92 57
types of loose leaf lettuce #2 52
peanut planting spacing #1 52
planting peanuts spacing #1 52
easy to grow beans #1 52
plant families #11 49
plum granny #3 47
jalapeno pepper shu #89 47
beauregard sweet potato seed #1 43
thai red roselle seeds #1 43
austrian field peas #1 43

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

7 of 33 AI crawlers blocked

Standards: llms.txt

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 70% phone
  • 29% desktop
  • 2% tablet
  • United States

Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.

Open Page Rank

5.30 / 10 · ranked #201,958 of all domains

371 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

5,800 est. monthly organic visits (US)

3,534 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP2.1 s
INP75 ms
CLS0.15
TTFB400 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.

Page

  • Language: English (United States)
  • Weight: 3.4 MB · 73 requests
  • Structured data: OpenGraph

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.

Organisation

  • Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
  • Country: United States

From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).

Infrastructure

  • Registered Sep 1996 (30 years) via Network Solutions, LLC, renews Sep 2028
  • Hosted on DigitalOcean (157.245.11.122)
  • Email: no MX record returned
  • Email security: DMARC reject
  • SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, expires Dec 2026
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 51,139, 5 hosts

DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted

Subdomains

HostTechs
seedracks.southernexposure.com 16
blog.southernexposure.com 15
southernexposure.com 11
www.southernexposure.com 11
sendy.southernexposure.com 10
gardenplanner.southernexposure.com 8

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