What powers whatthetech.com?
Last seen May 2025 · 31 technologies across 19 categories
Advertising
Sovrn
since Sep 2022
Advertising Networks
DoubleClick Ad Exchange (AdX)
since Jan 2016
Google AdSense
since Jan 2016
Affiliate programs
Skimlinks
since Dec 2022
Sovrn//Commerce
since Jun 2021
Analytics
CDN
Cloudflare
since Jan 2016
Google Hosted Libraries
since Feb 2022
CMS
Databases
MySQL
since Aug 2018
Google Workspace
since Aug 2022
SparkPost
since Aug 2022
Font Scripts
Google Font API
since Jan 2016
JavaScript Frameworks
JavaScript libraries
Message boards
IPB
since Aug 2018
Miscellaneous
Programming languages
PHP
since Aug 2018
Security
SEO
The SEO Framework
since Dec 2022
Tag managers
Google Tag Manager
since Aug 2021
Web frameworks
Microsoft ASP.NET
since Apr 2025
WordPress plugins
Litespeed Cache
since Dec 2022
AI Crawlers
Doesn't mention any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt; all are allowed by default. Checked Sep 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 bytespider removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 amazonbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 applebot-extended removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 meta-externalagent removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 ccbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 claudebot removed from robots.txt
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Open Page Rank
3.61 / 10 · ranked #807,202 of all domains
28 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.3.56, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Google Workspace
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), no DMARC record
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 644,757, 3 hosts
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| forums.whatthetech.com | 24 |
| whatthetech.com | 21 |
| www.whatthetech.com | 21 |