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alamy.com — domain analysis
alamy.com describes itself as "See Alamy's diverse content collection to find the right asset for your next project and get unrivalled support from our global team of experts.". It is…
By wg_admin
· Oct 4, 2026 · 1 min read
alamy.com describes itself as "See Alamy's diverse content collection to find the right asset for your next project and get unrivalled support from our global team of experts.". It is built on Next.js, registered in 1999, served from Dublin, Ireland. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 6 of 6 common security headers, 1 tracking script.
What is alamy.com about?
The words appearing most often on the homepage, excluding common filler, are
a rough indication of subject matter rather than a description of the business:
- news ×5
- images ×5
- view ×5
- alamy ×4
- content ×4
- creative ×3
- real ×3
- life ×3
- stock ×2
- licensesimage ×2
Does alamy.com publish the usual trust pages?
Found: about, contact, terms. Not found at the usual addresses:
privacy.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does alamy.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 14 domains in this index. This is a
small, self-selected sample — the domains people happened to look up — not a
representative sample of the web.
| Response time | Faster than 36% of them (median 312ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 90% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 50% of them |
Related domains in this index
Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.):
Sharing a network means sharing a host or CDN. It implies nothing about a
relationship between the sites themselves.
Analysed domains built on a similar stack:
When was alamy.com registered?
alamy.com was registered on 15 October 1999, which makes it about 26 years old.
A registration this old means the domain has been renewed repeatedly, which costs money every year and is not something abandoned or disposable projects tend to do.
The registrar of record is Network Solutions, LLC.
Registration runs until 15 October 2030.
The domain carries 1 registry lock, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 15 October 1999 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 15 October 2030 |
| Registrar | Network Solutions, LLC |
| Registry status | client transfer prohibited |
Where is alamy.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Dublin, Ireland.
The network is operated by AWS EC2 (eu-west-1) (AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.).
Hosting location describes where the responding server sits, not where the business is. A CDN will report its nearest edge rather than the origin.
What is alamy.com running on?
alamy.com exposes 2 identifiable technologies: Next.js, Google Tag Manager.
The build output indicates a server-rendered JavaScript framework, which means the HTML served to crawlers is generated ahead of time rather than assembled in the browser.
Visitor tracking is present (Google Tag Manager), so this homepage is not cookie-free.
- Next.js
- Google Tag Manager
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 399ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 390KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | not disclosed |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 398,945 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 52 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
A meta description of 144 characters is present.
All 17 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Get creative with stock photos and videos from Alamy (52 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | See Alamy's diverse content collection to find the right asset for your next project and get unrivalled support from our global team of experts. (144 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.alamy.com/ |
| Open Graph title | Get creative with stock photos and videos from Alamy |
| Headings / images | 22 H2s, 17 images (0 without alt text) |
Is alamy.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Amazon and is
valid until 2027-03-13, which is 160 days from the date of this check. It covers
12 hostnames.
- alamy.com
- alamy.pt
- *.alamy.com
- *.alamy.it
- *.alamyimages.fr
- alamy.it
- *.alamy.es
- *.alamy.de
- alamy.es
- alamyimages.fr
- *.alamy.pt
- alamy.de
The certificate has 160 days left to run.
Which security headers does it set?
All 6 headers checked are set, which is uncommon and indicates someone configured them deliberately.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=15768000; includeSubDomains; preload |
| Content Security Policy | yes | default-src 'self' *.alamy.com *.alamyimages.de *.alamyimages.it *.alamyimages.fr; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'un |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | yes | strict-origin-when-cross-origin |
| Permissions-Policy | yes | geolocation=(),midi=(),microphone=(self),camera=(),magnetometer=(),gyroscope=(),fullscreen=(self),payment=() |
How is DNS configured for alamy.com?
| IP addresses | 52.213.122.49, 54.217.221.126, 54.75.174.116 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | ec2-52-213-122-49.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com, ec2-54-217-221-126.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com |
| Name servers | ns-657.awsdns-18.net, ns-1423.awsdns-49.org, ns-1852.awsdns-39.co.uk, ns-59.awsdns-07.com |
| Mail (MX) | eu-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com (pri 10), eu-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:207.126.144.0/20 ip4:89.151.93.128/27 ip4:212.187.244.224/27 ip4:62.3.225.110/32 ip4:115.248.217.168/29 ip4:185.55.61.176/28 include:_netblocks.mimecast.com include:msgfocus.com -all |
| TXT records | 9 |
alamy.com resolves to 3 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 2 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to ec2-52-213-122-49.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com, ec2-54-217-221-126.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for alamy.com?
DNS is operated by Amazon Route 53 rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Mimecast.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about alamy.com?
20 of 20 externally hosted scripts carry no subresource integrity hash. If one of those hosts were compromised, the replacement script would run with full access to the page.
Can alamy.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is published with p=none, which monitors but does not act. Forged mail is still delivered; the owner just gets reports about it.
CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 6 named authorities (issuewild letsencrypt.org, issue amazon.com, issue comodoca.com, issue digicert.com), so no other CA should be able to issue for this domain.
The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. That is still the norm for most domains, but it means DNS answers cannot be cryptographically verified.
What else does alamy.com publish?
An ads.txt file is published with 371 entries, which means the site sells programmatic advertising and has declared who may resell its inventory.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 11,706 bytes and names
25 user-agent groups.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
No sitemap is declared in robots.txt.
AI crawler policy
| Crawler | Policy |
|---|---|
| gptbot | allowed |
| claudebot | allowed |
| perplexitybot | allowed |
| ccbot | allowed |
| applebot-extended | allowed |
| bytespider | allowed |
No sitemap is declared in robots.txt, so crawlers must discover pages by following links.
Named AI crawlers are explicitly allowed (gptbot, claudebot, perplexitybot, ccbot, applebot-extended, bytespider).
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- WebSite
- SearchAction
- EntryPoint
- Organization
- PostalAddress
The homepage publishes 5 structured data types: WebSite, SearchAction, EntryPoint, Organization, PostalAddress.
What does alamy.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 7 third-party hosts (alamy.de, alamy.it, alamyimages.fr, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, googletagmanager.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
2 cookies are set before any interaction (Session, UID).
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, GitHub.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session | yes | no | none/unset |
| UID | yes | no | none/unset |
Does alamy.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both alamy.com and www.alamy.com answer with 200 and neither redirects to the other. Search engines therefore see two complete copies of the site, and link equity is split between them unless a canonical tag resolves it.
How easily can alamy.com be crawled?
No readable sitemap was found, so crawlers have to discover every page by following links.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does alamy.com run?
1 tracking script detected: Google Tag Manager.
A consent platform is in place (Termly), so in the EU and UK these should only fire after the visitor agrees.
How does alamy.com look when shared?
All five social preview tags are present, so links shared to social platforms and chat apps will render with a title, description and image.
The page declares 4 hreflang alternates (en, de, it, fr), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
17 images on the homepage, 11 of them lazy-loaded (65%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means every page view also contacts Google. Self-hosting removes that dependency.
The page pulls 2 external stylesheets and 20 external scripts, with 19 carrying defer or async.
Is alamy.com accessible and current?
The page uses 5 landmark elements and 114 ARIA attributes.
There are 5 form inputs but only 4 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index alamy.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
The homepage carries 74 internal and 10 external links across 10 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 0.8% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
The heading outline skips 1 level, which breaks the document structure screen readers navigate by.
How is alamy.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate.
A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.
Frequently asked questions
Does alamy.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
Yes — all 6 headers checked are present.
Does alamy.com allow AI crawlers?
robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.
What is alamy.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Next.js, Google Tag Manager. A site behind a CDN or rendered server-side may use more than it reveals.
Where does this data come from?
Every figure was measured by our own server on 4 October 2026: DNS lookups, one HTTPS request to the homepage, a TLS handshake and a request for robots.txt. No third-party SEO API is involved.
Is any of this traffic or authority data?
No. Traffic, authority and ranking figures cannot be measured by inspecting a domain, only modelled. Everything here is a direct observation.
I own alamy.com and want this page removed.
Ask through the contact page on this site, from an address at the domain, and the report will be taken down. It only ever shows what the domain already serves publicly.
Analysed 4 October 2026.
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