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anime.com — domain analysis
anime.com describes itself as "Discover new shows, join discussions, create tier lists, vote in polls, and find your next binge. Join the anime community on Anime.com.". It is built on…
By wg_admin
· Oct 4, 2026 · 1 min read
anime.com describes itself as "Discover new shows, join discussions, create tier lists, vote in polls, and find your next binge. Join the anime community on Anime.com.". It is built on Next.js, registered in 1996, served from Walnut, United States. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 2 of 6 common security headers, 1 tracking script.
What is anime.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:
- anime ×2
- 2000what ×2
- mind ×2
Does anime.com publish the usual trust pages?
All four of the pages a established business normally publishes were found:
about, contact, privacy and terms.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does anime.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 14% of them (median 312ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 70% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 79% 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:
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was anime.com registered?
anime.com was registered on 10 December 1996, which makes it about 29 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 GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Registration runs until 9 December 2030.
The domain carries 4 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 10 December 1996 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 9 December 2030 |
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client renew prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited |
Where is anime.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Walnut, United States.
The network is operated by Vercel, Inc (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 anime.com running on?
anime.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 637ms to first byte this response is slow for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 288KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | Vercel |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 295,085 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 56 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
A meta description of 136 characters is present.
No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.
All 2 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Anime.com – Discover, Discuss & Rank Your Favorite Anime (56 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Discover new shows, join discussions, create tier lists, vote in polls, and find your next binge. Join the anime community on Anime.com. (136 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (0 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.anime.com |
| Open Graph title | Anime.com – Discover, Discuss & Rank Your Favorite Anime |
| Headings / images | 2 H2s, 2 images (0 without alt text) |
Is anime.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Let's Encrypt and is
valid until 2026-12-18, which is 75 days from the date of this check. It covers
1 hostname.
- anime.com
The certificate has 75 days left to run.
It covers 1 hostname, so it was issued for this site specifically.
Let's Encrypt certificates are free and run on 90-day terms, so this site is almost certainly renewing automatically.
Which security headers does it set?
2 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy). Absent: X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=63072000 |
| Content Security Policy | yes | default-src 'self'; base-uri 'self'; frame-ancestors 'self' https://listenlabs.ai; child-src 'self'; frame-src https://a |
| X-Content-Type-Options | no | — |
| X-Frame-Options | no | — |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for anime.com?
| IP addresses | 76.76.21.21 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 76.76.21.21 |
| Name servers | anita.ns.cloudflare.com, cris.ns.cloudflare.com |
| Mail (MX) | smtp.google.com (pri 1) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.mlsend.com ~all |
| TXT records | 8 |
anime.com resolves to a single address, so there is no DNS-level redundancy.
Mail is handled by 1 exchanger.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to 76.76.21.21, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for anime.com?
DNS is operated by Cloudflare rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Google Workspace.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
Can anime.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to reject, the strictest setting: mail that fails authentication is refused outright. This is the configuration that actually stops domain spoofing.
No CAA records are published, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate 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 does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 398 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.anime.com/sitemap.xml
AI crawler policy
robots.txt names no AI crawlers specifically, so they fall under whatever rule
applies to User-agent: *.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- WebSite
- Organization
- ImageObject
The homepage publishes 3 structured data types: WebSite, Organization, ImageObject.
What does anime.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 3 third-party hosts (animedotcom.b-cdn.net, googletagmanager.com, image.tmdb.org). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
No cookies are set on first load.
Does anime.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both anime.com and www.anime.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 anime.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.anime.com/sitemap.xml listing 40 entries.
A deliberately invalid URL returns HTTP 200 rather than 404. That is a soft 404: every mistyped or stale link becomes an indexable page, which inflates the site with duplicates.
What tracking does anime.com run?
1 tracking script detected: Google Tag Manager.
No consent management platform was detected alongside them. Where GDPR or the ePrivacy Directive applies, analytics and advertising scripts generally need consent before they load.
How does anime.com look when shared?
4 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:type.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
2 images on the homepage, 2 of them lazy-loaded (100%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
No srcset attributes are used, so every device is served the same image size regardless of screen.
The page pulls 10 external stylesheets and 27 external scripts, with 25 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Vercel edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is anime.com accessible and current?
The page uses 4 landmark elements and 73 ARIA attributes.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index anime.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 25 internal and 2 external links across 1 outside host.
Visible text is only 0.1% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is anime.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: public, max-age=0, must-revalidate.
Frequently asked questions
Does anime.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 2 of 6. The ones not present are: X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does anime.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 anime.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 anime.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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