Its primary focus is on web browser and Windows tips, software, guides and reviews.

An average of five posts are published each day of the week with topics ranging from Windows[1] and Linux operating system news to web browser tips (focusing on Firefox,[2] Google Chrome and Opera, online services like Gmail and Outlook.com, and general tech news and tips.

[7][8][9][6][10][11][excessive citations] Ghacks was created in 2005 as a development blog for a software called Google Hacks.

The website received more than 400,000 visitors per day as of January 2017,[citation needed] and as of June 2019 has an Alexa traffic rank of 9,537 worldwide and 4,269 in the United States.

[16] Ghacks Technology News has received recommendations by DL.TV,[17] Diggnation,[18][not specific enough to verify] and KNLS Radio's Eye on the Web with Mary Westheimer.