What powers
stanford.edu?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 622 technologies across 75 categories
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| convolutional neural network | #4 | 1,640,900 |
| convolutional neural network | #4 | 1,640,900 |
| bits or bytes | #1 | 2,500 |
| bit by byte | #1 | 2,500 |
| deep blue chess computer | #4 | 2,200 |
| k clustering | #4 | 800 |
| bit in byte | #3 | 790 |
| rnn | #3 | 640 |
| recurrent neural net | #4 | 440 |
| navajo language | #7 | 310 |
| deep blue | #11 | 300 |
| rnn recurrent neural network | #4 | 290 |
| john duchi | #1 | 220 |
| cnn neural | #4 | 190 |
| what is a convolutional neural network | #4 | 190 |
| karel | #3 | 190 |
| convex optimization boyd | #1 | 180 |
| probability cheat sheet | #1 | 180 |
| k-means clustering algorithm | #3 | 160 |
| christopher potts | #1 | 150 |
| sachin katti | #2 | 140 |
| convolutional | #5 | 140 |
| convolutional | #5 | 140 |
| visual cortex | #8 | 130 |
| k means | #5 | 130 |
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.
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No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 93% desktop
- 7% phone
United States
United Kingdom
Indonesia
India
Germany
Canada
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
9.19 / 10 · ranked #126 of all domains
81,280 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
3,302,700 est. monthly organic visits (US)
5,160 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 3.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 1900 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Weight: 0.2 MB · 9 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
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Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Stanford University on Wikidata)
- Founded: 1885
- Sector: higher education
- Country: United States
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on STANFORD (171.67.215.200, IPv6)
- DNS: DNS Made Easy
- Email: Proofpoint Essentials
- Email security: no SPF record, DMARC quarantine, DNSSEC signed
- SSL: DigiCert, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 99, 9,370 hosts
- Verified with: Airtable, Amazon SES, Atlassian, Brevo, Google, Jamf
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| ccare.stanford.edu | 38 |
| extreme.stanford.edu | 38 |
| stanfordvideo.stanford.edu | 38 |
| www.stanford.edu | 38 |
| dbds.stanford.edu | 37 |
| arts.stanford.edu | 35 |
| longevity.stanford.edu | 35 |
| www.gsb.stanford.edu | 35 |
| democracyday.stanford.edu | 34 |
| ehs.stanford.edu | 34 |
| emsed.stanford.edu | 33 |
| sig.stanford.edu | 33 |
| stanford.edu | 33 |
| surgpathcriteria.stanford.edu | 33 |
| applymbamsx.stanford.edu | 32 |
| medicinex.stanford.edu | 32 |
| metabolicpathways.stanford.edu | 32 |
| provost.stanford.edu | 32 |
| techsource.stanford.edu | 32 |
| law.stanford.edu | 31 |
| longevity3.stanford.edu | 31 |
| mededucation.stanford.edu | 31 |
| respect.stanford.edu | 31 |
| setr.stanford.edu | 31 |
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