What powers 
thehistoryoftheweb.com?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 12 technologies across 10 categories
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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 Sep 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| newgrounds | #17 | 2,400 |
| geocities | #5 | 690 |
| salon newspaper | #9 | 330 |
| neopets | #20 | 260 |
| web archive | #66 | 130 |
| pc bang | #6 | 81 |
| pc bang | #6 | 81 |
| cold fusion software | #9 | 66 |
| blink tag | #19 | 49 |
| when was aol created | #5 | 41 |
| home page | #11 | 41 |
| imode | #4 | 39 |
| goto search engine | #1 | 33 |
| home page or homepage | #7 | 33 |
| yahooligans | #6 | 30 |
| useless websites | #29 | 25 |
| postscript blog | #93 | 25 |
| internet 1995 | #3 | 23 |
| internet in 1995 | #4 | 17 |
| who started the company google | #70 | 13 |
| what are geocities | #5 | 12 |
| what if the printing press wasn't around | #1 | 12 |
| net artists | #9 | 11 |
| overture search | #2 | 11 |
| go-to | #17 | 10 |
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% desktop
- 38% phone
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.77 / 10 · ranked #130,867 of all domains
348 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
4,800 est. monthly organic visits (US)
756 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.4 s |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Weight: 0.1 MB · 15 requests
- WordPress theme: thotw · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Infrastructure
- Hosted on SERVERNET-AS (45.151.82.8)
- DNS: nswhitelabel.com
- Email: thehistoryoftheweb.com
- Email security: no SPF record, no DMARC record
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, wildcard, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 522,883, 2 hosts
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
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- detected Jetpack Apr 2026