macrumors.com — domain analysis
macrumors.com describes itself as "Apple News and Rumors". It was registered in 2000, served from Toronto, Canada. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 4 of 6 common security headers, 1 tracking script.
What is macrumors.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:
- apple ×145
- iphone ×109
- unread ×66
- jump ×65
- watch ×48
- series ×42
- october ×39
- users ×31
- full ×31
- update ×30
Does macrumors.com publish the usual trust pages?
Found: about. Not found at the usual addresses:
contact, privacy, terms.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does macrumors.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 83 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 83% of them (median 438ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 63% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 56% of them |
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Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.):
Sharing a network means sharing a host or CDN. It implies nothing about a
relationship between the sites themselves.
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Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was macrumors.com registered?
macrumors.com was registered on 24 February 2000, 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 Moniker Online Services LLC.
Registration runs until 24 February 2033.
The domain carries 1 registry lock, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 24 February 2000 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 24 February 2033 |
| Registrar | Moniker Online Services LLC |
| Registry status | client transfer prohibited |
Where is macrumors.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Toronto, Canada.
The network is operated by Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335 Cloudflare, 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 macrumors.com running on?
macrumors.com exposes 2 identifiable technologies: Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare.
Cloudflare sits in front of the origin, so the server header, IP addresses and response timing describe the edge rather than the machine actually running the site.
Visitor tracking is present (Google Tag Manager), so this homepage is not cookie-free.
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 168ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 411KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | cloudflare |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 420,661 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 32 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
A meta description of 21 characters is present.
1 of 226 images carry no alt attribute, which leaves them unreadable to screen readers and uninterpretable to image search.
| Title | MacRumors: Apple News and Rumors (32 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Apple News and Rumors (21 chars) |
| H1 | MacRumors (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.macrumors.com/ |
| Open Graph title | MacRumors: Apple News and Rumors |
| Headings / images | 26 H2s, 226 images (1 without alt text) |
Is macrumors.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Google Trust Services and is
valid until 2026-12-26, which is 82 days from the date of this check. It covers
10 hostnames.
- macrumors.com
- *.macrumors.com
- admin.front.macrumors.com
- buyersguide.dev.macrumors.com
- www.front.macrumors.com
- rss.dev.macrumors.com
- images.dev.macrumors.com
- rss.front.macrumors.com
- test.front.macrumors.com
- www.dev.macrumors.com
The certificate has 82 days left to run.
Which security headers does it set?
4 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options). Absent: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=86400 |
| Content Security Policy | yes | frame-ancestors 'self' |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for macrumors.com?
| IP addresses | 104.20.35.133, 172.66.148.112, 2606:4700:10::6814:2385, 2606:4700:10::ac42:9470 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 104.20.35.133, 172.66.148.112 |
| Name servers | jade.ns.cloudflare.com, zod.ns.cloudflare.com |
| Mail (MX) | macrumors-com.relay1a.spamh.com (pri 10), macrumors-com.relay1b.spamh.com (pri 20), macrumors-com.relay1c.spamh.com (pri 30) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zendesk.com include:servers.mcsv.net ~all |
| TXT records | 6 |
macrumors.com resolves to 4 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 3 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to 104.20.35.133, 172.66.148.112, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for macrumors.com?
DNS is operated by Cloudflare rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail exchangers point at hosts that do not match any major provider, which usually means self-hosted or niche-provider mail.
The domain publishes AAAA records and accepts connections over IPv6.
What else is worth noting about macrumors.com?
5 of 5 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.
15 email addresses appear in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find them.
Can macrumors.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.
CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 6 named authorities (issue ssl.com, issuewild alphassl.com, issuewild comodoca.com, issuewild digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes), so no other CA should be able to issue for this domain.
The zone is DNSSEC-signed, so resolvers can verify the DNS answers have not been tampered with in transit.
What else does macrumors.com publish?
An ads.txt file is published with 118 entries, which means the site sells programmatic advertising and has declared who may resell its inventory.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 155 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.macrumors.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml.gz
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?
- Organization
- NewsArticle
- WebPage
- ImageObject
- Person
The homepage publishes 5 structured data types: Organization, NewsArticle, WebPage, ImageObject, Person.
What does macrumors.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 7 third-party hosts (cdn.onesignal.com, cdn.onthe.io, googletagmanager.com, gravatar.com, i.ytimg.com, instagram.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
No cookies are set on first load.
4 resources are referenced over plain HTTP on an HTTPS page, which browsers block or flag as mixed content.
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Mastodon.
Does macrumors.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both macrumors.com and www.macrumors.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 macrumors.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 macrumors.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 macrumors.com look when shared?
4 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:description.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
227 images on the homepage, 132 of them lazy-loaded (58%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
The page pulls 8 external stylesheets and 6 external scripts, with 8 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Cloudflare edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is macrumors.com accessible and current?
The page uses 6 landmark elements and 354 ARIA attributes.
There are 11 form inputs but only 0 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
The visible copyright notice reads 2000, 26 years behind the current year, which usually indicates the site is not actively maintained.
Can search engines index macrumors.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 497 internal and 176 external links across 22 outside hosts.
Visible text makes up 13.5% of the HTML.
How is macrumors.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: max-age=300, must-revalidate.
A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.
The TLS certificate also covers 8 subdomains: admin.front.macrumors.com, buyersguide.dev.macrumors.com, www.front.macrumors.com, rss.dev.macrumors.com, images.dev.macrumors.com, rss.front.macrumors.com, test.front.macrumors.com, www.dev.macrumors.com.
- admin.front.macrumors.com
- buyersguide.dev.macrumors.com
- www.front.macrumors.com
- rss.dev.macrumors.com
- images.dev.macrumors.com
- rss.front.macrumors.com
- test.front.macrumors.com
- www.dev.macrumors.com
Frequently asked questions
Does macrumors.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 4 of 6. The ones not present are: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does macrumors.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 macrumors.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare. 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 5 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 macrumors.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 5 October 2026.
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