howstuffworks.com

Technologies

Found on any of its indexed pages. Each one lists every other site that uses it.

None of the catalog's technologies.

Tracking IDs

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None found.

Contacts

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None found on its indexed pages.

Server

From the response headers and meta tags of its homepage.

Server

CloudFront

X-Powered-By

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IP address

18.64.211.27

Loads scripts from

• 5474cb65a01c.18c71156.eu-central-1.token.awswaf.com

Infrastructure

DNS, certificate and favicon, with when each was seen. Shared ones lead to the other sites behind them.

Addresses

18.64.211.110only this site

18.64.211.27only this site

18.64.211.28only this site

18.64.211.84only this site

Mail (MX)

alt1.aspmx.l.google.com1,175 other sites

alt2.aspmx.l.google.com1,169 other sites

alt3.aspmx.l.google.com600 other sites

alt4.aspmx.l.google.com594 other sites

aspmx.l.google.com1,180 other sites

Name servers

ns-1026.awsdns-00.org2 other sites

ns-1723.awsdns-23.co.ukonly this site

ns-230.awsdns-28.com2 other sites

ns-514.awsdns-00.net2 other sites

Certificate issuer

C = US, O = Amazon, CN = Amazon RSA 2048 M04

Valid until

Jan 30, 2027

Certificate

0635710af29ed5245fb85e5677ed7966only this site

Names it covers

*.cdn.preview.hswinternal.com*.howstuffworks.com*.zoo.com*.zooquizzes.comcdn-origin.hswinternal.comhowstuffworks.comtravel.mapquest.comzoo.comzooquizzes.com

TXT records

MS=ms51740217

MS=ms74645168

ahrefs-site-verification_e608251d484c28256d6e39259fb2d78c0971f422502addc2f3457561c55c3db7

atlassian-domain-verification=kpW93Gl0HucESn1XIuigK0EfPnA8gPRAkNY/HH6ej3NcfKLftxRcrx0fvla1iciX

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Ad sellers

Who its ads.txt and app-ads.txt let sell its ad space directly. Sites sharing a seller account usually share an owner.

ads.txt

amxrtb.com, 1051994432 other sites

appnexus.com, 37011 other site

behave.com, 1608only this site

behave.com, 1863only this site

blockthrough.com, 5681138295635968only this site

c.amazon-adsystem.com, 30821 other site

criteo.com, B-0601952 other sites

google.com, pub-2887778269467248only this site

All 37

Published files

What it publishes for machines. Every version is archived.

• ads.txt1 version · checked Oct 18, 2026View
• app-ads.txtnone (HTTP 404)
• robots.txt1 version · checked Oct 18, 2026View
• security.txtnone (HTTP 404)
• Sitemap1 version · checked Oct 18, 2026View

History

What the archive holds about it.

Fetched 1 time since Oct 18, 2026, 1 successfully. The archive holds 1 distinct version of 1 page: every change is kept.

Linked from 0 indexed sites

The most popular first.

Links to

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