What powers thenorthstar.media?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 18 technologies across 12 categories
Caching
CDN
CMS
Databases
Ecommerce
Font scripts
Hosting
JavaScript libraries
Miscellaneous
Programming languages
Web servers
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 found
- ai.txt not found
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Standards: llms.txt
Audience
- 68% phone
- 32% desktop
Canada
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
2.04 / 10 · ranked #3,491,890 of all domains
21 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.3 s |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1400 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (Canada)
- Weight: 5.5 MB · 44 requests
- WordPress theme: eksell (child: eksell-child02) · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
- L’Étoile du Nord | The North Star
- Industry: News and media (declares
NewsMediaOrganization) - Profiles: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Hostinger (156.67.74.207, IPv6)
- DNS: Hostinger
- Email: Titan Email
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), no DMARC record, CAA
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 2,546,624, 3 hosts
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped Hostinger CDN May 2026
- detected LiteSpeed Apr 2026
- dropped cdnjs Mar 2026
- dropped Cloudflare Mar 2026
- dropped Embed Optimizer Mar 2026
- dropped Google Analytics Mar 2026
- dropped GSAP Mar 2026
- dropped Image Prioritizer Mar 2026
- dropped LiteSpeed Mar 2026
- dropped Modern Image Formats Mar 2026
- dropped Optimization Detective Mar 2026
- dropped PayPal Mar 2026
- dropped Performance Lab Mar 2026
- dropped Polylang Mar 2026
- dropped Priority Hints Mar 2026
- dropped Speculative Loading Mar 2026
- dropped Stripe Mar 2026
- dropped The Events Calendar Mar 2026
- dropped Web Worker Offloading Mar 2026
- dropped WP-Optimize Mar 2026
- detected Hostinger CDN Feb 2026
- dropped lit-element Feb 2026
- dropped lit-html Feb 2026
- detected Litespeed Cache Feb 2026
- dropped parcel Feb 2026
- dropped SWC Feb 2026
- dropped The SEO Framework Feb 2026
- dropped Litespeed Cache Dec 2025
- dropped RankMath SEO Dec 2025
- detected The SEO Framework Dec 2025
- detected cdnjs Nov 2025
- detected Embed Optimizer Nov 2025
- detected Enhanced Responsive Images Nov 2025
- detected Google Analytics Nov 2025
- detected GSAP Nov 2025
- detected Image Placeholders Nov 2025
- detected Image Prioritizer Nov 2025
- detected jQuery Migrate Nov 2025
- detected jsDelivr Nov 2025
- detected lit-element Nov 2025
- detected lit-html Nov 2025
- detected LiteSpeed Nov 2025
- detected Modern Image Formats Nov 2025
- detected Optimization Detective Nov 2025
- detected parcel Nov 2025
- detected PayPal Nov 2025
- detected Performance Lab Nov 2025
- detected Performant Translations Nov 2025
- detected Polylang Nov 2025
- detected Speculative Loading Nov 2025