What powers freebsd.org?

Last seen Sep 2026 · 25 technologies across 16 categories

Analytics

Plausible
since May 2025

Caching

Varnish
since Jan 2016

Databases

MySQL
since Aug 2018

Development

git
since Jul 2021

Issue trackers

Phabricator
since Aug 2018

JavaScript frameworks

Mustache v4.2.0
since Aug 2018

JavaScript graphics

Mermaid
since Aug 2022

JavaScript libraries

Clipboard.js
since May 2022
Highlight.js
since Aug 2022
jQuery v3.3.1
since Aug 2018
Modernizr v2.7.1
since Aug 2022

Message boards

XenForo
since Aug 2018

Miscellaneous

cgit v1.3
since Jul 2021
Gravatar
since Aug 2018
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
PWA
since Aug 2022
RSS
since Dec 2022

Operating systems

FreeBSD
since Aug 2018

Programming languages

C
since Feb 2022
PHP
since Aug 2018

Security

HSTS
since Sep 2022

Static site generator

Hugo v0.161.1
since Jul 2021

Web server extensions

OpenSSL v3.0.16
since Jan 2023

Web servers

Apache HTTP Server
since Aug 2018
Nginx
since May 2017

AI Crawlers

Doesn't mention any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt; all are allowed by default. Checked Oct 2026.

  • robots.txt found
  • llms.txt not found
  • ai.txt not found
  • Oct 2026 *: Allowed (was Restricted)
  • Sep 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
  • Sep 2026 *: Allowed (was Restricted)
  • Aug 2026 robots.txt appeared
  • Aug 2026 * added to robots.txt

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
freebsd #1 3,700
bsd #8 800
tar #31 280
df #16 260
what is freebsd #1 150
os #73 130
bsd operating system #3 97
freebsd download #2 96
bsd #96 85
bsd logo #2 78
announcement #71 78
diavolo #56 70
freebsd os #1 64
tar man page #7 61
daemon #74 57
bsd software license #6 54
bsd daemon #2 52
freebsd releases #1 52
freebsd iso #1 52
freebsd iso #1 52
unix #53 47
man tar #5 34
freebsd 15 #1 33
bsd linux #2 32
freebsd daemon #3 31

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

  • 49% phone
  • 47% desktop
  • 4% tablet
  • United States
  • Germany
  • Japan
  • United Kingdom
  • Indonesia
  • India

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

Open Page Rank

8.55 / 10 · ranked #1,986 of all domains

5,278 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

7,900 est. monthly organic visits (US)

2,474 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP2 s
INP50 ms
CLS0
TTFB1400 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.

Page

  • Weight: 0.1 MB · 16 requests

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.

Similar sites

Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.

Infrastructure

  • Registered Sep 1994 (32 years) via Gandi SAS, renews Sep 2028
  • Hosted on NYINTERNET (96.47.72.84, IPv6)
  • DNS: Hurricane Electric
  • Email: freebsd.org
  • Email security: no SPF record, no DMARC record, DNSSEC signed, CAA
  • SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, expires Dec 2026
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 2,264, 497 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

HostTechs
forums.freebsd.org 10
papers.freebsd.org 9
docs.freebsd.org 6
www.freebsd.org 5
cgit.freebsd.org 4
mail-archive.freebsd.org 3
man.freebsd.org 3
ports.freebsd.org 3
reviews.freebsd.org 3
www.jp.freebsd.org 3
docs-archive.freebsd.org 2
lists.freebsd.org 2
people.freebsd.org 2
vuxml.freebsd.org 2
archive.freebsd.org 1
bugs.freebsd.org 1
download.freebsd.org 1
pkg.freebsd.org 1
svnweb.freebsd.org 1
wiki.freebsd.org 1

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