simonwillison.net website report
Authority, global rank, the websites that link to simonwillison.net, when it was registered and where it's hosted – free, from public data.
authority
global rank of 133,241,980
websites link to it
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How strong is simonwillison.net?
simonwillison.net has an XKey authority of 57 out of 100, which makes it a very strong website. It ranks #3,298 of 133,241,980 websites by how central it is to the web's links – the top 0.01%. 8,242 different websites link to it.
Authority comes from Common Crawl's map of links between websites (July–September 2026): a site linked from many well-linked sites scores high. Google doesn't use this number, but it tracks the kind of link strength that helps pages rank. What is domain authority?
Which websites link to simonwillison.net?
The 50 strongest websites linking to simonwillison.net, by link strength (0–100). Select any one to see its own report.
| # | Website linking to it | Link strength |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | google.com | 99 |
| 2 | wordpress.org | 89 |
| 3 | wikipedia.org | 88 |
| 4 | jquery.com | 85 |
| 5 | microsoft.com | 85 |
| 6 | amazon.com | 84 |
| 7 | cloudfront.net | 84 |
| 8 | t.me | 83 |
| 9 | unpkg.com | 83 |
| 10 | blogspot.com | 82 |
| 11 | mozilla.org | 82 |
| 12 | spotify.com | 82 |
| 13 | github.com | 81 |
| 14 | nih.gov | 80 |
| 15 | adobe.com | 80 |
| 16 | wix.com | 80 |
| 17 | github.io | 78 |
| 18 | medium.com | 78 |
| 19 | wikimedia.org | 77 |
| 20 | hatena.ne.jp | 75 |
| 21 | linktr.ee | 75 |
| 22 | harvard.edu | 75 |
| 23 | substack.com | 75 |
| 24 | w3.org | 74 |
| 25 | businessinsider.com | 73 |
| 26 | mit.edu | 72 |
| 27 | plausible.io | 71 |
| 28 | ibm.com | 71 |
| 29 | ovhcloud.com | 71 |
| 30 | arxiv.org | 71 |
| 31 | feedly.com | 71 |
| 32 | ahrefs.com | 70 |
| 33 | frontiersin.org | 70 |
| 34 | deloitte.com | 69 |
| 35 | vercel.app | 69 |
| 36 | worldbank.org | 69 |
| 37 | livejournal.com | 68 |
| 38 | netlify.app | 68 |
| 39 | plos.org | 68 |
| 40 | ox.ac.uk | 67 |
| 41 | wordfence.com | 67 |
| 42 | entrepreneur.com | 67 |
| 43 | upenn.edu | 67 |
| 44 | buzzsprout.com | 66 |
| 45 | telegra.ph | 66 |
| 46 | uchicago.edu | 66 |
| 47 | blog.google | 66 |
| 48 | nvidia.com | 66 |
| 49 | docker.com | 66 |
| 50 | libsyn.com | 66 |
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When was simonwillison.net registered?
simonwillison.net was registered on 9 March 2005 through 123-Reg Limited, and is paid up until 9 March 2028.
| Registered | 9 March 2005 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 9 March 2028 |
| Last updated | 10 March 2026 |
| Registrar | 123-Reg Limited |
| Name servers | nash.ns.cloudflare.com, zita.ns.cloudflare.com |
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Link data: Common Crawl web graph, July–September 2026. Registration data: the domain registry, checked 1 November 2026. Look up another website on the website report page.