What powers vads.ac.uk?

Last seen Sep 2026 · 13 technologies across 11 categories

Analytics

Google Analytics vUA
since Jan 2019

CDN

cdnjs
since May 2022
Cloudflare
since May 2022

Comment systems

Livefyre v1.9.4
since Jul 2021

Font scripts

Font Awesome v4.7.0
since Aug 2021

JavaScript frameworks

React
since Oct 2020

JavaScript libraries

core-js v3.45.1
since Sep 2021

Maps

Leaflet v1.9.4
since Oct 2020

Programming languages

Java
since Sep 2021
PHP
since Jan 2019

Security

HSTS
since Aug 2026

UI frameworks

Bootstrap v3.3.7
since Oct 2020

Web servers

Apache HTTP Server
since Jan 2019

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 Oct 2026.

  • robots.txt found
  • llms.txt not checked
  • ai.txt not checked

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
1959 fashion #5 18
1960's washing machine #5 12
1937 fashion #4 9
caesar crossing the rubicon painting #4 9
battle of milvian bridge #59 9
lady sunbeam shavemaster #4 8
william shakespeare statue #17 8
angel of the north #38 8
charles x of france #48 8
an angel leading a soul into hell #3 7
apollo slaying the serpent python #3 7
trimphone #4 7
chariot race painting #2 6
jade flute #6 6
hercules vs snake #2 5
holland pockets #2 5
the lion at home #4 5
statue of hercules wrestling #5 5
1938 fashion #6 5
othello paintings #6 5
death of julius caesar painting #11 5
ploughing in the nivernais #36 5
plowing in the nivernais #36 5
pauline borghese #59 5
zandra rhodes artwork #3 4

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

No AI crawlers blocked

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 60% desktop
  • 40% phone
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.

Open Page Rank

5.30 / 10 · ranked #201,252 of all domains

242 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

480 est. monthly organic visits (US)

1,089 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP4.7 s
INP50 ms
CLS0.7
TTFB900 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.

Page

  • Language: English (United States)
  • Weight: 4.4 MB · 35 requests

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.

Organisation

  • VADS
  • Founded: 1997
  • Country: United Kingdom

From Wikidata (CC0).

Infrastructure

  • Hosted on OCLC-AS (193.240.184.109)
  • DNS: ja.net
  • Email: no MX record returned
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 633,905, 3 hosts

DNS records as swept Oct 2026. How the web is hosted

Subdomains

HostTechs
vads.ac.uk 13
www.vads.ac.uk 12

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