Domain report
explainthatstuff.com
explainthatstuff.com ranks in the top 0.016% of domains by connectivity (Common Crawl, cc-main-2026-jul-aug-sep), with 5 distinct hosts observed under it.
Connectivity
- Top percentile
- 0.016%
- Hosts observed
- 5
From the Common Crawl cc-main-2026-jul-aug-sep hyperlink graph, 133,241,980 domains total. What this rank means
HTTPS reachability
https://explainthatstuff.com/ answered with HTTP 200.
DNS records
- A
- 209.142.64.143
- AAAA
- No records found.
- MX
- 10 mail.explainthatstuff.com.
- NS
- ns1.zen.co.uk.
- ns0.zen.co.uk.
Live preview
This site sends "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN", which blocks embedding it here.
Since explainthatstuff.com can't be embedded live, this is a captured screenshot instead — a snapshot from whenever it was last rendered, not necessarily this exact moment.
Domain registration (WHOIS / RDAP)
RDAP lookup failed (HTTP 429).
SSL certificate
Certificate Transparency lookup failed (HTTP 429).
HTTP & security headers
Response
- Server
- cloudflare
- Content-Type
- text/html; charset=UTF-8
- Cache-Control
- max-age=259200, must-revalidate
- Content-Encoding
- Not sent
Security
- Content-Security-Policy
- Not sent
- Strict-Transport-Security
- max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains, max-age=0; includeSubDomains; preload
- X-Frame-Options
- SAMEORIGIN
- X-Content-Type-Options
- Not sent
- Referrer-Policy
- Not sent
- Permissions-Policy
- Not sent
Redirect chain
- 1.
http://explainthatstuff.com/HTTP 301→ http://www.explainthatstuff.com/
- 2.
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/HTTP 301→ https://www.explainthatstuff.com/
- 3.
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/HTTP 200
Meta tags
- Title
- Explain that Stuff
- Description
- A collection of FREE, easy-to-understand science, technology, and how-it-works articles for the whole family!
- Canonical
- https://www.explainthatstuff.com/
- Robots
- NOODP
- Generator
- Not set
- Open Graph title
- Explain that stuff! Science and technology made simple
- Open Graph description
- We make science and technology easy to understand.
- Open Graph image
- https://cdn4.explainthatstuff.com/optical-mouse-light-guide-large-og.jpg
- Open Graph type
- website
- Twitter card
- Not set
- Twitter title
- Not set
- Twitter image
- Not set
robots.txt
- Disallow rules (User-agent: *)
- 26
- Disallow rules (other agents)
- 1
No Sitemap declared in robots.txt.
Technology detected
Best-effort, based on a small set of well-known signals — this may be incomplete.
- Cloudflarecdn
Server: cloudflare
- PHPother
X-Powered-By: PHP/8.4.26
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