What powers thebostonsun.com?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 26 technologies across 17 categories
Advertising
Analytics
CDN
CMS
Databases
Font scripts
JavaScript graphics
JavaScript libraries
Miscellaneous
PaaS
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Performance
Programming languages
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Webmail
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 Oct 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 74% desktop
- 26% phone
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
3.53 / 10 · ranked #860,694 of all domains
74 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 0.9 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 500 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 2.1 MB · 193 requests
- WordPress theme: magazine-basic3 · all themes
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.28.14, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: no SPF record, no DMARC record
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 658,827, 2 hosts
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- detected Priority Hints Aug 2026
- dropped Imagely NextGEN Gallery Jul 2026
- dropped Lightbox Jul 2026
- dropped NextGEN Gallery Jul 2026
- dropped Priority Hints Jul 2026
- detected Imagely NextGEN Gallery May 2026
- detected Lightbox May 2026
- detected NextGEN Gallery May 2026
- detected PDF.js May 2026
- detected Three.js May 2026
- detected WordPress Block Editor May 2026
- detected Priority Hints Apr 2026
- dropped Snowplow Analytics Apr 2026
- detected Font Awesome Mar 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Mar 2026
- detected Snowplow Analytics Feb 2026
- detected Cloudflare Browser Insights Nov 2025