hackaday.com

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hackaday.com is ranked #3,762 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 58 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Jun 11, 2004, 22 years, 4 months ago, through GoDaddy.com, LLC, and is paid up until Jun 11, 2029. Its homepage uses WordPress, Adobe Fonts and Google Analytics. It is served by Nginx.

Global rank

#3,762

▼ 3 this week

Domain age

22 years

since Jun 11, 2004

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

83/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#3,762 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: #3,440.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where hackaday.com sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Jun 11, 2004 (22 years, 4 months ago)
Expires: Jun 11, 2029
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Name servers: ns1.wordpress.com, ns2.wordpress.com, ns3.wordpress.com
DNSSEC: Not signed

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

Technology stack

CMS & site builders

WordPress 7.1.3

UI frameworks & fonts

Adobe Fonts

Analytics

Google Analytics

Web servers

Nginx

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.

83/100

https://hackaday.com/

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(no meta description)

16 passed · 6 warnings · 1 failed

Content

✓Title32 characters
✕Meta descriptionMissing
!H1 heading24 H1 headings — use one
✓Subheadings35 H2 headings
!Image alt text1 of 31 images have no alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 1,433 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://hackaday.com/
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen-US
✓Structured dataMicrodata

Social sharing

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

Technical

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

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
!Content-Security-PolicyNot set
!Clickjacking protectionNot set
!X-Content-Type-OptionsNot set
!Referrer-PolicyNot set

Server response

Final URL: https://hackaday.com/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 17 ms (first byte 12 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 107 KB
Compression: br

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Questions about hackaday.com

How popular is hackaday.com?

hackaday.com is #3,762 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is hackaday.com?

hackaday.com was registered on Jun 11, 2004, which makes the domain 22 years, 4 months old.

What is hackaday.com built with?

We detected WordPress, Adobe Fonts, Google Analytics and Nginx on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of hackaday.com?

GoDaddy.com, LLC, according to the registry's RDAP record.