What powers 
wmbriggs.com?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 26 technologies across 17 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 Oct 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not checked
- ai.txt not checked
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| wmbriggs | #1 | 180 |
| proletarian drift | #15 | 7 |
| what is a model in science | #70 | 6 |
| ufo hits plane | #5 | 4 |
| what are models in science | #95 | 4 |
| william briggs statistician | #4 | 3 |
| conditional hypotheticals | #5 | 3 |
| all models are wrong but some are useful | #84 | 3 |
| manly jobs | #14 | 3 |
| william briggs | #16 | 2 |
| wolfgang smith | #41 | 2 |
| wedding sabine hossenfelder | #6 | 2 |
| stopping power | #42 | 2 |
| poem codes | #7 | 2 |
| poem code | #7 | 2 |
| is statistics math | #38 | 2 |
| masculine jobs | #52 | 2 |
| how many geniuses are there | #4 | 2 |
| below average iq | #41 | 1 |
| zampolit | #19 | 1 |
| crazy eddie fraud | #84 | 1 |
| vertical causation | #6 | 1 |
| what is stopping power | #35 | 1 |
| what is pork bung | #91 | 1 |
| quantum mechanics multiverse | #49 | 1 |
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
- 70% phone
- 30% desktop
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.03 / 10 · ranked #243,520 of all domains
278 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
250 est. monthly organic visits (US)
230 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United States)
- Weight: 1.6 MB · 66 requests
- WordPress theme: bloglo (child: blogvi) · all themes
- Structured data: Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Infrastructure
- Registered Jan 2002 (24 years) via DreamHost, LLC, renews Jan 2027
- Hosted on DreamHost (69.163.169.187)
- DNS: DreamHost
- Email: MailChannels
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), no DMARC record
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 1,884,252, 2 hosts
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| www.wmbriggs.com | 23 |
| wmbriggs.com | 13 |
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- detected Priority Hints Jul 2026
- detected Cloudflare May 2026
- detected Cloudflare Bot Management May 2026
- dropped Jetpack Boost Dec 2025
- dropped Cloudflare Nov 2025
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management Nov 2025