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Added July 17, 2026 · Last analysed July 17, 2026 · via

StackScope records what new websites are built with, the week they launch. Most we find ourselves, by watching public internet infrastructure for brand-new sites; the rest come from Product Hunt, Hacker News and PeerPush. We crawled this one for its tech stack and scored it for launch readiness: DNS, security headers, SEO basics. This page is what we saw on 17 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Every technology below links to its own page: which other new sites launched with it. Vendors and agencies watch those pages with Stackdar and hear about new adopters the week they ship, from £15 a month.

Surface Noise is partway there, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. What needs work: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and tracking cookies set before any opt-in.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 17, 2026. The site is hosted on Oracle Corporation in the United States, with a domain registered 5 weeks before launch. The crawl picked up 13 technologies on this site, covering wordpress plugin, javascript library, analytics, and CMS. The stack includes WordPress, Apache, and Bluehost DNS.

For context, it's running the same core stack as 1,602 other launches.

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Vibe Score 8 · Few AI signals
How much the site looks AI-generated. Informational pattern-match signal, not a verdict. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (13)

Infrastructure
DNS Bluehost DNS
Server Apache
Email
Email marketing MailPoet (2)
Build & Framework
CMS WordPress (5)
Font Google Fonts
JavaScript library jQuery (2)
Parsley.js
WordPress plugin Kadence (3)
Site Kit by Google
Yoast
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (4)
Social ShareThis (2)
Tag management Google Tag Manager (5)

Infrastructure

DNS
Bluehost DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Not green hosted
No green-energy record. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 8 Jun 2026 to 6 Sep 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
2 months
Registered Jun 2026 · Porkbun LLC

Email Security

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
?
DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC p=none None (p=none). Monitoring only.
?
MTA-STS Not deployed. Mail to your domain can be downgraded to plaintext en route.
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TLS-RPT Not configured. You won't hear about silent SMTP TLS handshake failures.

Storage (3)

Cookies (2)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_F2GNB18HKL 1y Google Analytics
Session storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
wpEmojiSettingsSupports 70 B WordPress

Readiness Breakdown How?

Custom title and meta description
Open Graph tags (title, image, description) (partial) missing og:image
Twitter card meta tags
Canonical URL declared
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
Page title is 72 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.
Meta description is 196 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 155–160 characters of the description in desktop search results (less on mobile); anything past that won't appear.

Performance How?

867 ms Server response
13% Faster than peers
1476 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
927 KB Page weight
56 KB Image weight
5 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

2 images: 1 oversized

Indicative grade from a single automated render, not a substitute for Lighthouse or field data, and not part of the StackScope score.

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI palette signals +5
AI writing signals +3

This score is based on structural patterns and is not definitive. Many legitimate sites may trigger signals, and AI-built sites may go undetected. It should be treated as an indicator, not a verdict.

AI Stance

No AI stance declared
llms.txt published
No AI bots blocked in robots.txt
? No directive declared
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (12 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy-policy/
? Terms of Service not detected
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
64% unique

Security Headers (0/6)

Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

Code splitting
13 JS files
11 CSS files
5 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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