What powers 
theemotionmachine.com?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 18 technologies across 12 categories
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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 Nov 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety | #77 | 70 |
| gish gallop | #34 | 38 |
| hedonic treadmill | #49 | 31 |
| false choice | #58 | 31 |
| julius evola ride the tiger | #4 | 26 |
| sisyphus meaning | #19 | 18 |
| the art of flirting | #3 | 17 |
| things people procrastinate on | #1 | 12 |
| pragmatic thinker | #5 | 12 |
| one upmanship | #13 | 11 |
| just world fallacy | #33 | 11 |
| cyclical breathing | #55 | 11 |
| us versus them | #17 | 10 |
| the emotion machine | #3 | 9 |
| how to flirt book | #4 | 9 |
| think for yourself question authority | #6 | 9 |
| words have consequences | #5 | 8 |
| ride the tiger evola | #8 | 8 |
| how to comfort someone | #54 | 8 |
| sisyphus happy | #12 | 7 |
| hard questions in life | #4 | 6 |
| what is positive psychology | #77 | 6 |
| how to make sugar pills | #2 | 5 |
| why do people repeat what you say | #4 | 5 |
| leave people alone | #6 | 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
- 56% desktop
- 44% phone
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.28 / 10 · ranked #213,447 of all domains
237 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
730 est. monthly organic visits (US)
1,816 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.6 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 41.7 MB · 64 requests
- WordPress theme: memberlite · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
- The Emotion Machine
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026).
Infrastructure
- Registered Jun 2009 (17 years) via Bluehost Inc., renews Jun 2027
- Hosted on Oracle Cloud (162.144.22.118)
- DNS: Bluehost
- Email: theemotionmachine.com
- Email security: SPF (neutral), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 432,570, 2 hosts
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Nov 2026, certificate as seen Nov 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped Tawk.to Sep 2026
- dropped Cart Functionality Jun 2026
- dropped PayPal Jun 2026
- dropped React Jun 2026
- dropped reCAPTCHA Jun 2026
- dropped Select2 Jun 2026
- dropped Stripe Jun 2026
- dropped Cloudflare May 2026
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management May 2026
- detected Cart Functionality Mar 2026
- detected Cloudflare Mar 2026
- detected Cloudflare Bot Management Mar 2026
- detected PayPal Mar 2026
- detected React Mar 2026
- detected reCAPTCHA Mar 2026
- detected Select2 Mar 2026
- detected Stripe Mar 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Dec 2025