What powers webofstories.com?

Last seen Oct 2026 · 15 technologies across 11 categories

Analytics

Google Analytics
since Aug 2018

CDN

cdnjs
since Nov 2021
Cloudflare
since May 2022
Google Hosted Libraries
since Feb 2022
jQuery CDN
since Feb 2022

Email

Amazon SES
since Aug 2022

JavaScript libraries

jQuery v1.10.2
since Aug 2018
jQuery UI v1.10.3
since Aug 2018

Load balancers

Amazon ELB
since Sep 2021

Miscellaneous

Open Graph
since Sep 2022

PaaS

Amazon Web Services
since Sep 2021

Programming languages

Java
since Sep 2021

Video players

JW Player
since Jun 2021

Web servers

Apache HTTP Server
since Aug 2018

Webmail

Apple iCloud Mail
since Jan 2023

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 Nov 2026.

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

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
hellespont turkey #65 31
web of stories #1 21
web of story #1 21
wc fields mr magoo #2 5
sarah nuland #3 3
john martin knuth #5 3
israel kastner #26 2
concrete mathematics knuth #29 2
jeremy bernstein #53 2
denise scott brown architect #59 2
flaming creatures #61 2
danny hillis #72 2
wild lines film #5 1
alpher-bethe-gamow paper #14 1
oliver sacks robin williams #14 1
story database #29 1
teller scientist #48 1
anecdote in writing #90 1
lee comic book writer #13 0
oliver sacks father #13 0
oliver sacks weightlifting #13 0
franco magnani #14 0
michael chapman cinematography #14 0
this was once revealed to me in a dream citation #16 0
richard feynman los alamos #18 0

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 States

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

Open Page Rank

5.27 / 10 · ranked #219,868 of all domains

202 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

100 est. monthly organic visits (US)

133 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP2.1 s
CLS0.05
TTFB900 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Oct 2026.

Page

  • Language: English
  • Weight: 7.7 MB · 101 requests
  • Structured data: OpenGraph

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.

Organisation

  • Web of Stories

From Wikidata (CC0).

Infrastructure

  • Registered Jun 2000 (26 years) via EuroDNS S.A., renews Jun 2027
  • Hosted on Amazon Web Services (34.246.97.31)
  • DNS: Amazon Route 53
  • Email: Mimecast
  • Email security: SPF (hard fail), no DMARC record
  • SSL: Amazon Trust Services, RSA 2048, wildcard, expires Feb 2027
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 480,251, 4 hosts
  • Verified with: Apple Business, Google, Microsoft 365

DNS records as swept Nov 2026, certificate as seen Nov 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted

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