What powers 
thegulf.com?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 33 technologies across 20 categories
Analytics
Caching
CMS
Databases
Font scripts
Hosting
JavaScript libraries
Miscellaneous
Page builders
Performance
Programming languages
Security
SEO
Tag managers
UI frameworks
Video players
Web servers
Webmail
Widgets
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
- 86% phone
- 14% desktop
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
3.48 / 10 · ranked #915,982 of all domains
96 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 3.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.1 |
| TTFB | 2100 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 1.7 MB · 19 requests
- WordPress theme: thegulf · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Organisation
- The Gulf
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Namecheap (162.0.224.109)
- DNS: GoDaddy DNS
- Email: Microsoft 365
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC quarantine
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 8,415,115, 3 hosts
- Verified with: Google, Microsoft 365
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| www.thegulf.com | 27 |
| thegulf.com | 18 |
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Recent changes
- detected Ahrefs Jul 2026
- dropped Pojo.me Feb 2026
- detected Nginx Jan 2026
- dropped Google Maps Nov 2025
- dropped React Nov 2025
- dropped Simpli.fi Nov 2025
- dropped styled-components Nov 2025