What powers thetangential.com?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 19 technologies across 15 categories
Analytics
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CMS
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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 Aug 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
2.25 / 10 · ranked #2,989,523 of all domains
33 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.7 s |
| INP | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 2.1 MB · 33 requests
- WordPress theme: minimalistix (child: the-minimal-blogger) · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Automattic (WordPress.com) (199.16.172.115)
- DNS: openhostingservice.com
- Email: Rackspace Email
- Email security: no SPF record, no DMARC record
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 2,755,427, 2 hosts
DNS records as swept Aug 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped HTTP/3 Jul 2026
- detected Priority Hints Dec 2025
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Dec 2025