What powers 
thecostaricanews.com?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 28 technologies across 16 categories
Advertising
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AI Crawlers
Doesn't mention any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt; all are allowed by default. Checked Sep 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 bytespider removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 amazonbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 applebot-extended removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 meta-externalagent removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 ccbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 claudebot removed from robots.txt
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| costa rica news | #5 | 130 |
| rainbow macaw | #69 | 70 |
| cuisine costa rica | #78 | 47 |
| guanacaste liberia costa rica | #98 | 43 |
| costa rica real estate | #86 | 38 |
| what is rap | #90 | 31 |
| the tico times | #16 | 26 |
| michael jordan costa rica | #3 | 25 |
| sonesta hotel | #55 | 17 |
| huetares | #2 | 15 |
| nieuws costa rica | #3 | 14 |
| rose apple | #83 | 13 |
| wet season costa rica | #90 | 11 |
| movile cave | #81 | 11 |
| franklin chang | #81 | 11 |
| franklin chang | #81 | 11 |
| definition of pura vida | #96 | 11 |
| tico times | #64 | 9 |
| tico times | #64 | 9 |
| pirates voyage pigeon forge | #63 | 9 |
| playa negra | #68 | 8 |
| neily costa rica | #4 | 7 |
| diqus culture | #3 | 7 |
| costa rica food | #88 | 5 |
| the retreat costa rica | #90 | 5 |
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
- 62% phone
- 38% desktop
Canada
United States
Costa Rica
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.31 / 10 · ranked #194,319 of all domains
310 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
1,100 est. monthly organic visits (US)
2,116 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 3.1 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 1800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 3.5 MB · 121 requests
- WordPress theme: newspaper · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Organisation
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.10.168, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: thecostaricanews.com
- Email security: no SPF record, no DMARC record
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 70,640, 3 hosts
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- detected Google Font API Jan 2026
- detected Priority Hints Jan 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Jan 2026
- detected Contact Form 7 Dec 2025
- detected Funding Choices Dec 2025
- detected Google AdSense Dec 2025
- detected reCAPTCHA Dec 2025
- dropped Font Awesome Nov 2025
- dropped MailChimp for WordPress Nov 2025
- dropped Translate WordPress Nov 2025
- dropped WordPress Super Cache Nov 2025