What powers theguardian.com?

Last seen Jun 2026 · 98 technologies across 32 categories

A/B Testing

VWO v7.0
since Aug 2018

Advertising

Amazon Advertising
since Jun 2021
Criteo
since Apr 2022
Google Ads
since Dec 2022
Google AdSense
since Jun 2018
Google Publisher Tag
since Feb 2021
ID5 v1.0.97
since May 2025
Integral Ad Science
since Feb 2022
Microsoft Advertising
since Feb 2021
OpenX
since Aug 2023
Prebid v10.23.0
since Jun 2018
PubMatic
since Apr 2022
Twitter Ads
since May 2021

Analytics

Adjust
since Nov 2023
Adobe Analytics
since Aug 2018
Amplitude
since Jun 2025
comScore
since Jun 2018
Facebook Pixel v2.9.140
since Jul 2021
Google Analytics
since Jun 2018
Hotjar
since Aug 2018
Linkedin Insight Tag
since Jun 2022
Snowplow Analytics
since Aug 2023
Twitter Analytics
since May 2021

Caching

Varnish
since Jun 2018

CDN

Amazon CloudFront
since Aug 2018
Amazon S3
since Aug 2018
cdnjs
since Oct 2021
Cloudflare
since May 2022
Fastly
since Aug 2018
jQuery CDN
since Feb 2022

CMS

Concrete CMS
since Aug 2018
Craft CMS
since Aug 2018

CRM

Salesforce
since Aug 2022

Ecommerce

Cart Functionality
since Aug 2020

Email

Amazon SES
since Aug 2022

Font scripts

Font Awesome v4.7.0
since Jun 2020
Typekit v1.21.0
since Sep 2022

Issue trackers

Sentry
since Oct 2019

JavaScript frameworks

Alpine.js v3.10.3
since Aug 2021
AMP
since Aug 2020
AngularJS v1.9.11
since Jun 2025
Emotion
since Jul 2021
GSAP v3.10.2
since Apr 2022
Handlebars v1.0.0
since Sep 2022
React
since Nov 2018
React Router v7.12.0
since Nov 2024
RequireJS v2.1.11
since Aug 2018
Vue.js
since Apr 2025

JavaScript libraries

Clipboard.js
since Jul 2020
core-js v3.10.2
since Aug 2021
Howler.js
since Sep 2022
jQuery v3.7.1
since Aug 2018
jQuery Modal v0.9.1
since Apr 2022
jQuery UI v1.13.2
since Aug 2018
LazySizes
since Feb 2022
Modernizr v2.8.0
since Aug 2018
Polyfill v3
since Aug 2018
Preact
since Nov 2021
Swiper
since Nov 2022

Load balancers

Amazon ALB
since Sep 2021

Marketing automation

Miscellaneous

DocuSign
since Aug 2022
HTTP/3
since Feb 2024
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
Permutive
since Jun 2021
PWA
since Sep 2023
RSS
since Dec 2022
Webpack
since Jul 2018

Operating systems

Windows Server
since Aug 2018

PaaS

Amazon Web Services
since Jan 2019
GitHub Pages
since Aug 2018

Payment processors

PayPal
since Nov 2018
Stripe
since Aug 2018

Performance

Priority Hints
since Nov 2025

Programming languages

PHP
since Aug 2018

Security

Cloudflare Bot Management
since May 2022
Confiant
since Jun 2023
HSTS
since Sep 2022
reCAPTCHA
since Jun 2020

Segmentation

SEO

SEOmatic
since May 2022

Surveys

Qualtrics
since Jun 2025

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Jun 2018

UI frameworks

Bootstrap v3.3.4
since Aug 2018
Tailwind CSS
since Apr 2022

Video players

Vimeo
since Nov 2021

Web frameworks

Microsoft ASP.NET
since Aug 2018
Yii
since Aug 2018

Web Servers

Apache HTTP Server
since Aug 2018
IIS
since Aug 2018
Nginx
since Aug 2018

Webmail

Apple iCloud Mail
since Jan 2023
Google Workspace
since Aug 2022

Widgets

Facebook
since Jun 2018

Top backlinks

Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.

Audience

  • 78% phone
  • 19% desktop
  • 3% tablet
  • United States
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
  • France
  • Italy
  • Canada

Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.

Open Page Rank

9.23 / 10 · ranked #103 of all domains

148,887 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

15,181,100 est. monthly organic visits (US)

3,912,803 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP0.9 s
INP100 ms
CLS0.05
TTFB300 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.

Page

  • Language: English
  • CDN: Fastly
  • Weight: 2.4 MB · 231 requests
  • Structured data: Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.

Subdomains

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www.theguardian.com 31
amp.theguardian.com 27
patrons.theguardian.com 24
jobs.theguardian.com 21
live.theguardian.com 19
membership.theguardian.com 19
support.theguardian.com 19
digital-deadly-sins.theguardian.com 18
holidays.theguardian.com 18
advertising.theguardian.com 16
recruiters.theguardian.com 16
subscribe.theguardian.com 16
syndication.theguardian.com 16
workwithus.theguardian.com 16
ausadvertising.theguardian.com 15
licensing.theguardian.com 15
manage.theguardian.com 15
usadvertising.theguardian.com 15
workforus.theguardian.com 15
surveys.theguardian.com 14
design.theguardian.com 12
open-platform.theguardian.com 12
profile.theguardian.com 12
courses.theguardian.com 11

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