What powers thestar.com?
Last seen Jun 2026 · 102 technologies across 31 categories
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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| toronto star newspaper | #1 | 8,200 |
| toronto daily star | #1 | 6,700 |
| mejuri | #8 | 5,900 |
| the star | #3 | 4,400 |
| toronto | #10 | 4,200 |
| toronto newspaper | #1 | 3,700 |
| park lawn corporation | #4 | 2,700 |
| score phillies | #51 | 1,600 |
| las vegas as | #69 | 1,600 |
| ca na da | #78 | 1,400 |
| shaboozey | #73 | 1,400 |
| payne one direction | #97 | 1,400 |
| garth hudson | #6 | 1,400 |
| rubio senator | #69 | 1,200 |
| justin trudeau | #49 | 1,200 |
| actor theo james | #71 | 1,200 |
| turt | #91 | 950 |
| ontario canada news | #1 | 880 |
| micah parsons | #63 | 860 |
| population of toronto metro area | #5 | 850 |
| toono | #59 | 770 |
| charlotte bobcats | #79 | 710 |
| toronto leafs | #28 | 630 |
| toronto news | #3 | 590 |
| xanadu nj | #78 | 580 |
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.
Audience
- 62% phone
- 33% desktop
- 4% tablet
Canada
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Australia
Mexico
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
8.64 / 10 · ranked #1,393 of all domains
15,890 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
186,900 est. monthly organic visits (US)
199,352 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- Weight: 6.5 MB · 468 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| mobile.thestar.com | 58 |
| m.thestar.com | 51 |
| www.thestar.com | 48 |
| ontario-doctors.thestar.com | 43 |
| projects.thestar.com | 41 |
| signal.thestar.com | 39 |
| sale.thestar.com | 35 |
| games.thestar.com | 29 |
| diversions.thestar.com | 20 |
| obituaries.thestar.com | 19 |
| votecompass.thestar.com | 16 |
| ehto.thestar.com | 8 |
| readerschoice.thestar.com | 7 |
| sites.thestar.com | 5 |
| charities.thestar.com | 3 |
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