What powers 
torontoobserver.ca?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 23 technologies across 16 categories
Analytics
Caching
CDN
CMS
Databases
Ecommerce
Font scripts
JavaScript libraries
Marketing automation
Miscellaneous
Page builders
Performance
Programming languages
Tag managers
Video players
WordPress plugins
AI Crawlers
Blocks 8 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Sep 2026.
Training crawlers
- Applebot-Extended Blocked
- Bytespider Blocked
- CCBot Blocked
- ClaudeBot Blocked
- Google-Extended Blocked
- GPTBot Blocked
- meta-externalagent Blocked
Search and AI assistants
- Amazonbot Blocked
The other 25 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and stay allowed by default.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not checked
- ai.txt not checked
Content Signals:
search=yes ai-train=no declared in robots.txt
- Sep 2026 *: Allowed (was Restricted)
- Sep 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
- Aug 2026 *: Allowed (was Restricted)
- Aug 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
AI Crawlers
8 of 33 AI crawlers blocked
Standards: Content Signals
Audience
Canada
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
4.85 / 10 · ranked #261,937 of all domains
131 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.6 s |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1400 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (Canada)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 2.2 MB · 86 requests
- WordPress theme: newspaper (child: newspaper-child) · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.46.164, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: torontoobserver.ca
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC quarantine
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 66,367, 3 hosts
- Verified with: Brevo, Google
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
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Recent changes
- dropped CookieYes Jun 2026
- dropped RSS Jun 2026
- dropped MonsterInsights Apr 2026
- dropped Bluehost Nov 2025
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management Nov 2025
- dropped Apache HTTP Server Oct 2025
- detected Cloudflare Browser Insights Oct 2025
- detected Cloudflare Rocket Loader Oct 2025
- detected Endurance Page Cache Oct 2025
- detected WordPress Super Cache Oct 2025