dev.to

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dev.to is ranked #3,692 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 55 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Apr 5, 2016, 10 years, 6 months ago, through Tonic, and is paid up until Apr 5, 2027. It is served through Fastly.

Global rank

#3,692

▲ 21 this week

Domain age

10 years

since Apr 5, 2016

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

91/100

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Popularity rank

#3,692 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #3,677.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where dev.to sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Apr 5, 2016 (10 years, 6 months ago)
Expires: Apr 5, 2027
Registrar: Tonic
Name servers: jill.ns.cloudflare.com, josh.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC: Not signed

From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 1, 2026.

Technology stack

CDN

Fastly

Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.

Homepage SEO check

Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.

91/100

https://dev.to/

DEV Community

A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

20 passed · 2 warnings · 1 failed

Content

!Title13 characters — aim for 15–65
✓Meta description83 characters
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings22 H2 headings
✕Image alt text61 of 118 images have no alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 1,795 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://dev.to/
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen
!Structured dataNo JSON-LD or microdata

Social sharing

✓Open GraphTitle, description and image set
✓Twitter / X cardsummary_large_image

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
✓FaviconFound
✓Character encodingutf-8

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
✓Content-Security-PolicySet
✓Clickjacking protectionSet
✓X-Content-Type-OptionsSet
✓Referrer-PolicySet

Server response

Final URL: https://dev.to/
HTTP status: 200
Server: Heroku
Response time: 20 ms (first byte 11 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 276 KB
Compression: gzip

Sites ranked near dev.to

Rank	Website	Registered	Built with
#3,687	shopee.vn	—	Google Tag Manager
#3,688	mercedes-benz.com	1994	—
#3,689	bitwarden.com	2015	jsDelivr, Google Tag Manager
#3,690	porsche.com	1996	Astro, Akamai
#3,691	foxbusiness.com	1999	Fastly, Google Fonts
#3,693	jumpcloud.com	2005	WordPress, Amazon CloudFront, Apache
#3,694	chrome.com	1994	Google Tag Manager, Google Fonts
#3,695	fb-t-msedge.net	2018	—
#3,696	metmuseum.org	1995	Vercel
#3,697	bstatic.com	2009	Amazon CloudFront

Questions about dev.to

How popular is dev.to?

dev.to is #3,692 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is dev.to?

dev.to was registered on Apr 5, 2016, which makes the domain 10 years, 6 months old.

What is dev.to built with?

We detected Fastly on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of dev.to?

Tonic, according to the registry's RDAP record.