Snapshots: Aug 21 launch 8.1 Aug 17 discovery

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SurfEnglish — Surf the web, learn English

SurfEnglish turns real articles, X posts and podcasts into daily English practice. Swipe to translate, double-tap to look up words, listen with an on-device AI voice, and play games built from what you read. Free on iPhone.

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Added August 17, 2026 · Last analysed August 21, 2026 · via StackScope Discovery · also on Product Hunt

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 21 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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SurfEnglish — Surf the web, learn English scores highly overall, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. Visible gaps: missing Content-Security-Policy and Strict-Transport-Security, incomplete legal pages, and incomplete email security.

The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 8 weeks before launch. We've detected 6 technologies on this site, covering CDN, DNS providers, email forwarding, and mobile. The stack includes Apple App Store, Cloudflare, and Cloudflare DNS.

It's more locked down than the typical StackScope Discovery launch.

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8.1
StackScope Score
Excellent
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
2/3 Legal
Partial
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 35 · Some 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 (6)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Protocol HTTP/3
Email
Email forwarding Cloudflare Email Routing (2)
Build & Framework
Mobile Apple App Store
Analytics & Marketing
SEO Google Search Console

Infrastructure

Network
AS13335 · US
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Green hosted
Host runs on renewable energy. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Google Trust Services
Valid 25 Jul 2026 to 23 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
2 months
Registered Jun 2026 · Squarespace Domains II LLC.

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
?
DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
?
MTA-STS Not deployed. Mail to your domain can be downgraded to plaintext en route.
?
TLS-RPT Not configured. You won't hear about silent SMTP TLS handshake failures.

Storage (0)

This site uses no client-side storage we could detect on page load.

Readiness Breakdown How?

Custom title and meta description
Open Graph tags (title, image, description)
Twitter card meta tags
Canonical URL declared
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
Meta description is 223 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?

186 ms Server response
69% Faster than peers
1280 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
1.7 MB Page weight
1.7 MB Image weight
1 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

13 images: 12 oversized, 2 missing alt text

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 +5
AI code-structure signals +5

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

Blocks AI crawlers
llms.txt published
9 AI bots blocked in robots.txt
ai-train = no
search = yes
? ai-input (not declared)
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (16 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy/
? Terms of Service not detected
94% unique

Security Headers (4/6)

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

Build

1 JS files
1 CSS files
1 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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