Websites using Canonical link
The canonical link tells search engines the preferred URL of a page. About 3,469,671 websites in the PageSourceSearch index contain the code that reveals it; the 50 highest-ranked are listed below.
How is Canonical link detected?
It is a link element with rel="canonical". The discovery keyword is the exact bytes PageSourceSearch looks for in every stored page and script:
rel="canonical" Search the index for it
A literal is matched byte for byte, case-sensitively. Combine it with another keyword, a domain, a kind or a date filter on the search page to narrow the list. About Canonical link
Top 50 websites using Canonical link
Ranked by the domain's position in the crawl's ranked list (Common Crawl harmonic centrality), highest first. view source opens the stored page or script with the match highlighted. Computed 2026-10-04 19:40:22 UTC.
How it appears in the source
From github.com (html):
/> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://github.com/" /> <link rel="canonical" href="https://github.com" data-turbo-transient> <meta name="turbo-body-classes" conten
Questions about finding Canonical link
- How does PageSourceSearch know a website uses Canonical link?
- By the source itself: It is a link element with rel="canonical". PageSourceSearch stores the raw HTML and first-party JavaScript of each crawled site and matches the keyword byte for byte, so every listed site's stored source contains it.
- Is this a complete list of websites using Canonical link?
- No. The page lists the 50 highest-ranked sites in the index whose source holds the keyword, out of about 3,469,671 websites that do; the count is the index's estimate at the time the list was computed. Run the keyword as a search to page through all of them, or add a kind or date filter.
- How do I find websites that use Canonical link together with another technology?
- Search for both keywords at once: several terms separated by spaces must all be found on the same site, or with the Same page toggle in the same page. For example rel="canonical" with wp-content/plugins/ lists the WordPress sites that use Canonical link.