What powers 
9to5mac.com?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 84 technologies across 34 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
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| apple store | #9 | 12,300 |
| icloud | #17 | 7,900 |
| macbook rumours | #4 | 7,200 |
| iphone se 4 | #4 | 4,500 |
| ios 18.0 release date | #5 | 4,200 |
| find my iphone | #55 | 3,200 |
| dark matter season 2 | #2 | 2,400 |
| apple tv | #68 | 1,900 |
| ios | #8 | 1,600 |
| clock | #85 | 1,600 |
| beats electronics | #21 | 1,500 |
| airpods pro | #89 | 1,400 |
| airpods pro | #31 | 1,400 |
| airpod pro | #53 | 1,400 |
| rumors apple | #2 | 1,300 |
| dodgers vs phillies | #54 | 1,300 |
| apple ipad | #14 | 1,000 |
| what not | #48 | 950 |
| app store | #22 | 910 |
| video downloader | #14 | 850 |
| comcast xfinity internet deals | #77 | 770 |
| plex | #24 | 770 |
| itunes | #62 | 770 |
| mac | #26 | 710 |
| elba idris | #52 | 710 |
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
Audience
- 63% phone
- 34% desktop
- 3% tablet
United States
United Kingdom
India
Germany
Canada
Singapore
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
8.54 / 10 · ranked #2,099 of all domains
10,255 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
197,400 est. monthly organic visits (US)
232,307 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.5 s |
| INP | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 3.5 MB · 2,417 requests
- WordPress theme: ninetofive · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
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Organisation
- 9to5Mac
- Founded: 2007
- Industry: News and media (declares
NewsMediaOrganization) - Profiles: Facebook, X
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Jan 2007 (19 years) via Tucows Domains Inc., renews Jan 2028
- Hosted on Automattic (WordPress.com) (192.0.66.2)
- DNS: WordPress.com DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: no SPF record, no DMARC record
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 967, 8 hosts
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| 9to5mac.com | 46 |
| academy.9to5mac.com | 33 |
| ww.9to5mac.com | 21 |
| www.9to5mac.com | 17 |
| trade-in.9to5mac.com | 12 |
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