How Dubai Practical is built
Measured numbers
Counted by the collection, not written by hand. A figure we cannot support is left out rather than shown as zero.
- Pages
- 564
- 13th of 15 measured in Knowledge/Travel, by sitemap URLs
- Page count over time
- Page count has not changed: 564 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
- Languages
- English
- Uptime
- 100.00% over 30 days
- From the public status feed
- Deploys
- 9 in the last 30 days
- Last deploy 20 Oct 2026. From the public status feed
- llms.txt
- Published
- llms.txt 68.8 KB · llms-full.txt 194 KB
- Sitemap
- Listed in robots.txt
- Content last updated
- 3 Oct 2026
- As reported by the site itself
Tech and AI search
Read from the live site on 2026-10-23: its homepage, robots.txt and llms.txt. A line we could not read is left out.
- Built with
- Next.js
- Read from the homepage markup
- Structured data
- FAQPage, Organization, WebSite
- schema.org types on the homepage
- AI crawler access
- Allows all 11 major AI crawlers
- From the site’s robots.txt
- llms.txt link depth
- 561 page links
- Markdown links in the site’s llms.txt
- Search
- Search box on the homepage
How it is built, by role
The same roles apply across the whole collection. Nothing in this block is specific to this site; what the site says about itself is quoted word for word below it.
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Edge network
Visitors reach a site through an edge layer: a content delivery network with a web application firewall in front of it.
- 2
Application host
The edge talks to an application host that serves the site and renders its pages.
- 3
Data
What the pages show comes from a relational database or, for a site pre-rendered at build time, from data files built into its release.
- 4
Scheduled measurement
The collection measures its sites on a schedule: content dates and site health nightly, page counts read from each site’s sitemap weekly. Every reading is kept with its date. A site too large to re-walk is not re-measured, and shows no trend.
- 5
Public status feed
A monitoring panel sends a signed report on uptime, deploys and backups once a day, and the Operations page publishes it. A figure on this page that comes from that report says so.
In the site's own words
Each passage is copied unaltered from a page the site publishes, with the address it was taken from and the date we took it. We add nothing between them.
“Dubai Practical is a free, independent reference guide to one of the world's most dynamic cities. Our mission is simple: give you accurate, actionable information about Dubai without the fluff, the sponsored content, or the outdated advice that plagues most travel and expat websites.”
“We cover attractions, visas, cost of living, transportation, health, culture, business setup, food, neighborhoods, and dozens of practical how-to guides drawn from real experience in the city.”
“We aim to cover everything — every visa type, every neighbourhood, every situation — rather than a shortlist. Where a page does rank or score options, the criteria are stated on that page so you can disagree with them.”
“Dubai changes rapidly. Prices shift, laws are updated, new attractions open, old ones close. We review and update content as things change — not once and never again.”
“Where a figure is time-sensitive (fees, visa rules, prices), check the linked government source on the page rather than quoting the number alone.”
“We do not accept payment from businesses in exchange for coverage, placement or a favourable write-up, and nobody can buy their way into a guide here.”
Screenshots
Timeline
Page count has not changed: 564 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
| Date | Pages |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 564 |
| 2026-10-10 | 564 |
| 2026-10-18 | 564 |
| 2026-10-25 | 564 |
- 30 Sep 2026564 pages
- 10 Oct 2026564 pages
- 18 Oct 2026564 pages
- 25 Oct 2026564 pages