What powers theguardian.com.au?

Last seen Aug 2026 · 51 technologies across 26 categories

Advertising

33Across
since Sep 2024
Criteo
since Sep 2024
Google AdSense
since Jan 2019
Google Publisher Tag
since Feb 2021

Analytics

Google Analytics
since Jan 2019
Snowplow Analytics
since Sep 2024

Caching

Redis Object Cache
since Oct 2025

CDN

Akamai
since Feb 2022
Cloudflare
since Jan 2021
Cloudinary
since Feb 2021

CMS

WordPress
since Oct 2025

Cookie compliance

Funding Choices
since Nov 2024

Databases

MySQL
since Oct 2025
Redis
since Oct 2025

Ecommerce

Cart Functionality
since Oct 2020

Email

Amazon SES
since Aug 2025
Google Workspace
since Aug 2025

Font scripts

Font Awesome v4.7.0
since Jan 2019
Google Font API
since Oct 2019
Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)
since Dec 2025

JavaScript frameworks

Handlebars v4.0.5
since Jul 2019

JavaScript libraries

Dojo v1
since Feb 2022
jQuery v3.7.1
since Jan 2019
jQuery Migrate v3.4.1
since Oct 2025
jQuery UI v1.10.1
since Jan 2019
Lightbox
since Oct 2025
Moment.js v2.19.1
since Jul 2019
Underscore.js v1.13.8
since Oct 2025

Marketing automation

Miscellaneous

HTTP/3
since Jun 2026
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
RSS
since Dec 2022

PaaS

Amazon Web Services
since Oct 2019

Page builders

WordPress Block Editor
since Oct 2025
WordPress Site Editor
since Oct 2025

Payment processors

Stripe v3
since Oct 2019

Performance

Priority Hints
since Aug 2026

Programming languages

PHP
since Oct 2025

Security

Akamai Bot Manager
since Feb 2022
HSTS
since Sep 2022
reCAPTCHA
since Apr 2022

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Jan 2019

Video players

MediaElement.js v2.23.4
since Oct 2019

Web servers

Apache HTTP Server
since Oct 2019

Webmail

Microsoft 365
since Jul 2025

WordPress plugins

Kadence WP Blocks
since Oct 2025
Yoast SEO v28.0
since Oct 2025

WordPress themes

Twenty Twenty-Five
since Oct 2025

AI Crawlers

Blocks 8 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Sep 2026.

Training crawlers

  • Applebot-Extended Blocked
  • Bytespider Blocked
  • CCBot Blocked
  • ClaudeBot Blocked
  • Google-Extended Blocked
  • GPTBot Blocked
  • meta-externalagent Blocked

Search and AI assistants

  • Amazonbot Blocked

The other 25 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and stay allowed by default.

  • robots.txt found
  • llms.txt not found
  • ai.txt not found

Content Signals: search=yes ai-train=no declared in robots.txt

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

AI Crawlers

8 of 33 AI crawlers blocked

Standards: Content Signals

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 52% desktop
  • 48% phone
  • Australia

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

Open Page Rank

4.45 / 10 · ranked #410,050 of all domains

70 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Core Web Vitals

LCP2.1 s
INP50 ms
CLS0
TTFB1600 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.

Page

  • Language: English (United States)
  • CDN: Cloudflare
  • Weight: 4.5 MB · 101 requests
  • WordPress theme: twentytwentyfive (child: twentytwentyfive-sng) · all themes
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.

Subdomains

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