What powers thestar.co.ke?
Last seen Dec 2025 · 20 technologies across 14 categories
Advertising
Google AdSense
since May 2025
Analytics
Cloudflare Browser Insights
since Sep 2025
Google Analytics
since May 2025
CDN
Cloudflare
since May 2025
CMS
Cookie compliance
Funding Choices
since Jun 2025
Databases
MySQL
since May 2025
Font scripts
Google Font API
since May 2025
JavaScript frameworks
AMP
since Dec 2025
JavaScript libraries
Closure Library
since Jun 2025
Miscellaneous
Programming languages
PHP
since May 2025
Security
reCAPTCHA
since Jun 2025
Tag managers
Google Tag Manager
since May 2025
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 Sep 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt found
- ai.txt not checked
- Sep 2026 bytespider removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
- Sep 2026 amazonbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 applebot-extended removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 meta-externalagent removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 ccbot removed from robots.txt
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Standards: llms.txt
Open Page Rank
0.89 / 10 · ranked #14,811,999 of all domains
3 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.41.42, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: ImprovMX
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 14,775,108, 2 hosts
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- detected AMP Dec 2025
- dropped Priority Hints Dec 2025