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PHD Projects

PhD consultancy — research guidance, paper writing, thesis support, and publication services for doctoral scholars.

Education

Added July 5, 2026 · Last analysed July 5, 2026 · via · 71% unique tagline

StackScope is a free public catalogue of indie launches. We find launches on Product Hunt, Hacker News and similar feeds, then crawl each site to detect its tech stack and score it for launch readiness: DNS, security headers, SEO basics. This page is what we saw on 5 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

PHD Projects looks production-ready overall, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. What needs work: missing several security headers, tracking cookies set before any opt-in, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 5, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare. We've detected 23 technologies on this site, covering wordpress plugin, javascript library, package cdn, and seo. The stack includes Bootstrap, WordPress, and cdnjs.

It's one of 43 launches on this exact stack.

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Vibe Score 20 · 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 (23)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Protocol HTTP/3
Build & Framework
CMS WordPress (5)
CSS framework Bootstrap (3)
Icon font Font Awesome
JavaScript library GSAP (2)
jQuery (2)
Masonry
Swiper
Package CDN cdnjs (2)
jsDelivr (2)
Video MediaElement.js
WordPress plugin Elementor
ElementsKit (2)
Live Composer
Site Kit by Google
Yoast
Analytics & Marketing
Advertising Google Ads (3)
Analytics Google Analytics (4)
SEO Google Search Console
Yandex Domain Verification
Tag management Google Tag Manager (2)

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 31 May 2026 to 29 Aug 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
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DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
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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 (8)

Cookies (6)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_gat < 1h Google Analytics
_ga_EXHKFJVC6H 1y Google Analytics
_ga_XM7ZL3JJKF 1y Google Analytics
_gcl_au 2mo Google Ads
_gid 23h Google Analytics
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
_gcl_ls 277 B Google Ads
Session storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
wpEmojiSettingsSupports 71 B WordPress

Readiness Breakdown How?

Custom title and meta description
Open Graph tags (title, image, description) (partial) missing og:image, og:description
Twitter card meta tags
Canonical URL declared
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

Performance How?

773 ms Server response
18% Faster than peers
1172 ms Largest contentful paint
0.17 Cumulative layout shift
3.6 MB Page weight
2.2 MB Image weight
7 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

114 images: 54 oversized, 78 without width/height, 20 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 onboarding signals +5
AI palette signals +5
AI writing signals +5
AI layout 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

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 (7 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy-policy/
Terms of Service
/terms-of-use/
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
90% unique

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
26 JS files
11 CSS files
7 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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