What powers thestudentnews.co.uk?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 17 technologies across 13 categories
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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 not found
- ai.txt not found
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 56% desktop
- 44% phone
United Kingdom
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
3.21 / 10 · ranked #1,246,252 of all domains
28 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.2 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United Kingdom)
- Weight: 3.1 MB · 61 requests
- WordPress theme: zeen · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Organisation
- The Student
- Founded: 1887
- Country: United Kingdom
From Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Automattic (WordPress.com) (192.0.78.170)
- DNS: WordPress.com DNS
- Email: no MX record returned
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 104,774, 2 hosts
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped Cloudflare Sep 2026
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management Sep 2026
- dropped Google AdSense Sep 2026
- dropped reCAPTCHA Sep 2026
- dropped Spotify Widgets Sep 2026
- dropped WordPress Block Editor Sep 2026
- detected Flickity Aug 2026
- detected WordPress Multisite Aug 2026
- dropped HTTP/3 Jul 2026
- detected Cloudflare May 2026
- detected Cloudflare Bot Management May 2026
- dropped Elementor Mar 2026
- detected Jetpack Feb 2026
- detected Priority Hints Feb 2026
- detected Spotify Widgets Feb 2026
- detected WordPress Block Editor Feb 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Dec 2025