What powers theincidentaleconomist.com?

Last seen Aug 2026 · 29 technologies across 15 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.

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Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
nicholas bagley #6 54
incidental #51 53
five days at memorial #45 53
correlation without causation examples #10 41
productive vs allocative efficiency #7 41
economic profit equation #8 37
marginal cost benefit #9 36
queen of versailles documentary #35 23
the incidental economist #1 21
incidental economist #1 21
allocative #53 14
credence good #4 13
peggy noonan health status #6 13
peggy noonan health status #6 13
counterfactual meaning #12 12
counterfactual definition #7 12
what is counterfactual #6 12
war of attrition game #4 11
family link is bad #2 11
food on floor #6 11
difference between allocative efficiency and productive efficiency #5 10
bring out your dead #24 9
can consumer surplus be negative #4 9
counterfactuals #10 9
what is a counterfactual in economics #1 9

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

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 52% phone
  • 48% desktop
  • United States

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

Open Page Rank

5.99 / 10 · ranked #110,488 of all domains

484 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

830 est. monthly organic visits (US)

904 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.7 s
CLS0.05
TTFB700 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.

Page

  • Weight: 2.1 MB · 87 requests
  • WordPress theme: hello-elementor (child: tie2021) · all themes
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.

Organisation

  • The Incidental Economist
  • Founded: 2009

From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).

Infrastructure

  • Hosted on PRIVATESYSTEMS (67.222.31.133)
  • DNS: privatesystems.net
  • Email: theincidentaleconomist.com
  • Email security: SPF (soft fail), no DMARC record
  • SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, wildcard, expires Nov 2026
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 21,347, 2 hosts

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www.theincidentaleconomist.com 15

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