What powers 
theness.com?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 22 technologies across 15 categories
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AI Crawlers
Doesn't mention any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt; all are allowed by default. Checked Oct 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt found
- ai.txt not found
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| starchild skull | #2 | 140 |
| neurologica | #2 | 96 |
| ness | #26 | 70 |
| spider man web shooter with web | #36 | 57 |
| institute of noetic sciences | #6 | 54 |
| bystander effect | #72 | 47 |
| crocoduck | #3 | 38 |
| arable land | #36 | 38 |
| less versus fewer | #14 | 37 |
| tetrachromatic | #56 | 31 |
| what color of the dress | #54 | 31 |
| neolithic revolution | #55 | 31 |
| neolithic agricultural revolution | #73 | 31 |
| morgellons | #93 | 25 |
| bumblebee can't fly | #2 | 23 |
| tetrachromacy | #50 | 23 |
| subjective morality | #7 | 23 |
| bilateral symmetry | #47 | 21 |
| was atlantis real | #14 | 20 |
| spinning lady illusion | #8 | 20 |
| flying car alef | #3 | 20 |
| neurologica blog | #1 | 18 |
| logic of god | #10 | 18 |
| can bumble bee fly | #4 | 17 |
| google books ngram viewer | #42 | 17 |
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
Standards: llms.txt
Audience
- 55% phone
- 45% desktop
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
India
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.97 / 10 · ranked #112,001 of all domains
573 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
1,900 est. monthly organic visits (US)
2,287 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 0.8 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 0.2 MB · 34 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Organisation
- The NESS (New England Skeptical Society on Wikidata)
- Founded: 1996
- Country: United States
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Nov 1997 (28 years) via NameCheap, Inc., renews Nov 2026
- Hosted on Cloudflare (141.193.213.20)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: no SPF record, no DMARC record
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 458,382, 2 hosts
- Verified with: Google, Meta Business
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| theness.com | 19 |
| www.theness.com | 7 |