What powers 
thesuntimesnews.com?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 41 technologies across 21 categories
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AI Crawlers
Blocks all crawlers by default in robots.txt (User-agent: *). Checked Nov 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
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- Oct 2026 *: Blocked (was Restricted)
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- Sep 2026 llms.txt removed
- Sep 2026 anthropic-ai removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 perplexitybot removed from robots.txt
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| sun times | #3 | 510 |
| chelsea needs | #8 | 440 |
| candlelight concerts | #70 | 230 |
| case western reserve university | #71 | 230 |
| case western university | #72 | 230 |
| encore | #82 | 210 |
| ernest mcsorley | #1 | 180 |
| scio township michigan | #5 | 170 |
| washtenaw county | #10 | 160 |
| forest street | #4 | 160 |
| scio township mi | #6 | 160 |
| everest sherpa restaurant | #5 | 160 |
| van morrison | #97 | 160 |
| edmund fitzgerald captain | #2 | 140 |
| washtenaw michigan | #11 | 140 |
| michigan business license | #3 | 120 |
| pictured rocks | #87 | 120 |
| carson | #95 | 120 |
| regular | #67 | 100 |
| cleanest great lake | #1 | 97 |
| township | #98 | 95 |
| traverse city state mental hospital | #8 | 87 |
| frozen movie cast | #80 | 85 |
| square root of two | #86 | 85 |
| pictured rocks lakeshore | #94 | 78 |
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
All crawlers blocked
Audience
- 57% phone
- 40% desktop
- 3% tablet
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.41 / 10 · ranked #169,938 of all domains
145 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
11,600 est. monthly organic visits (US)
7,506 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.8 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 6.0 MB · 59 requests
- WordPress theme: generatepress · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
- The Sun Times News (Sun Times on Wikidata)
- Industry: Arts and entertainment (declares
Event) - Profiles: Facebook, X, Instagram
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Aug 2008 (18 years) via GoDaddy.com, LLC, renews Aug 2032
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.26.8.147, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 2,039,417, 2 hosts
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Nov 2026, certificate as seen Nov 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| thesuntimesnews.com | 34 |
| michigangateway.thesuntimesnews.com | 19 |
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- dropped Astro Sep 2026
- detected Google Font API Jun 2026
- detected jQuery Apr 2026
- dropped Cart Functionality Mar 2026
- detected Funding Choices Feb 2026
- detected Cart Functionality Jan 2026