What powers writingcommons.org?

Last seen Sep 2026 · 50 technologies across 23 categories

Advertising

Amazon Advertising
since Apr 2022
AppNexus
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Criteo
since Jan 2022
Google AdSense
since May 2016
Google Publisher Tag
since Aug 2021
GumGum
since Jul 2023
ID5 v1.0.97
since May 2024
Mediavine
since Jul 2023
OpenX
since Sep 2022
Prebid v11.22.0
since Sep 2022
PubMatic
since Jan 2022
Rubicon Project
since Jan 2022
TripleLift
since Jul 2023

Analytics

comScore
since Jul 2023
Google Analytics
since Jun 2018
Snowplow Analytics
since Sep 2022

CDN

Amazon S3
since Jan 2025
Cloudflare
since May 2022

CMS

Joomla
since Jan 2016
WordPress
since Jan 2020

Databases

MySQL
since Jan 2020

Font scripts

Font Awesome v5.15.4
since May 2016
Google Font API
since Aug 2021
Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)
since Jan 2020

Hosting

GoDaddy
since Jul 2023

JavaScript libraries

jQuery v3.7.1
since Jan 2016
jQuery Migrate v3.4.1
since Jan 2016

Load balancers

Amazon ALB
since Apr 2023

Marketing automation

Sendinblue
since Sep 2026

Miscellaneous

Open Graph
since Sep 2022
RSS
since Jul 2023

PaaS

Amazon Web Services
since Apr 2023

Page builders

WordPress Block Editor
since Jul 2024

Performance

Priority Hints
since Jan 2024

Programming languages

PHP
since Jun 2018

Security

Cloudflare Bot Management
since Jun 2022
reCAPTCHA
since Apr 2022

Segmentation

Adobe Audience Manager
since Nov 2022

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Jan 2020

UI frameworks

Bootstrap v5.1.0
since Jan 2016

Web servers

Apache HTTP Server
since Jan 2016
Nginx
since Jan 2020

Widgets

AddThis
since Jan 2016
AddToAny
since Jan 2026

WordPress plugins

AddToAny Share Buttons v1.1
since Jan 2026
GenerateBlocks
since Jan 2024
GeneratePress GP Premium v2.3.2
since Jan 2024
RankMath SEO
since Oct 2025
WP Rocket
since Jul 2021

WordPress themes

GeneratePress v3.6.1
since Jan 2024

AI Crawlers

Blocks 1 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Oct 2026.

Training crawlers

  • GPTBot Blocked

The other 32 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and stay allowed by default.

  • 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
mla format #66 1,700
genre def #6 610
first person pov example #3 350
rhetoric #22 330
rhetoric rhetoric #89 210
research #28 190
brevity meaning #15 190
rhetoric definition #48 170
what is research #5 170
logos definition #15 170
define diction #25 160
define genre #15 140
rhetorical analysis #11 140
unclear antecedent #1 120
rhetorical appeals definition #4 120
discourse definition #19 110
what is a vague pronoun #4 110
brevity definition #24 100
discourse #44 100
vague pronoun #6 98
unity def #13 87
works cited page #31 85
mla works cited #59 85
mla citation works cited #64 85
discourse meaning #24 85

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

1 of 33 AI crawlers blocked

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 95% desktop
  • 6% phone
  • United States
  • Canada
  • Philippines

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

Open Page Rank

5.12 / 10 · ranked #235,893 of all domains

178 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

12,100 est. monthly organic visits (US)

5,840 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.7 s
INP100 ms
CLS0
TTFB900 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.

Page

  • Language: English (United States)
  • Weight: 5.6 MB · 66 requests
  • WordPress theme: generatepress (child: writingcommons-2023) · all themes
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.

Organisation

From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026).

Infrastructure

  • Registered Dec 2010 (15 years) via GoDaddy.com, LLC, renews Dec 2026
  • Hosted on DigitalOcean (104.236.119.116)
  • DNS: GoDaddy DNS
  • Email: no MX record returned
  • SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Dec 2026
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 522,825, 3 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

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www.writingcommons.org 10

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