What powers theindependent.ca?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 24 technologies across 18 categories
Analytics
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CMS
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Performance
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Security
Tag managers
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AI Crawlers
Blocks 6 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Nov 2026.
Training crawlers
- CCBot Blocked
- FacebookBot Blocked
- Google-Extended Blocked
- GPTBot Blocked
- Webzio-Extended Blocked
User-request fetchers
- ChatGPT-User Blocked
The other 27 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| dinn | #74 | 2,100 |
| just go for it | #29 | 520 |
| the independent | #76 | 190 |
| largest newfoundland dog | #1 | 180 |
| battle: los angeles | #8 | 65 |
| battle los angeles | #13 | 59 |
| just go with | #46 | 52 |
| nufalin dog | #62 | 52 |
| independent canada | #2 | 42 |
| sprung greenhouse | #4 | 39 |
| first class x-men | #68 | 28 |
| x-men: first class | #75 | 28 |
| how many fish in the oceans | #11 | 22 |
| jim learning | #1 | 21 |
| depp rum diary | #96 | 21 |
| st john's newfoundland newspapers | #3 | 20 |
| american pitcher plant | #66 | 17 |
| port and company | #90 | 17 |
| dog breed newfoundland | #51 | 16 |
| the rum diary 2011 | #52 | 16 |
| elizabeth glenn-copeland | #1 | 15 |
| goose bay labrador | #47 | 14 |
| happy valley goose bay | #55 | 14 |
| newfoundland weight | #13 | 13 |
| largest dog breed newfoundland | #3 | 11 |
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
6 of 33 AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 61% phone
- 35% desktop
- 4% tablet
Canada
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.32 / 10 · ranked #189,972 of all domains
214 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
4,000 est. monthly organic visits (US)
1,226 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.2 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1700 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (Canada)
- Weight: 1.4 MB · 42 requests
- WordPress theme: indie-website (child: indie-website-spoke) · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Sep 2003 (23 years) via Rebel.ca Corp., renews Sep 2027
- Hosted on Automattic (WordPress.com) (199.16.172.25)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: no MX record returned, SPF names MailChannels
- Email security: SPF (neutral), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 534,728, 2 hosts
- Verified with: Google, Meta Business, Stripe
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped HTTP/3 Jul 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Jan 2026