target.com — domain analysis
target.com is a live website built on Next.js, registered in 1997, served from Montreal, Canada. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 5 of 6 common security headers.
What is target.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:
- loading ×37
- bogo ×4
- deals ×4
- decor ×3
- target ×2
- everything ×2
- candy ×2
- costumes ×2
- starts ×2
- items ×2
Does target.com publish the usual trust pages?
None of about, contact, privacy or terms could be found at their usual addresses.
That is common for small or single-purpose sites, and it is also what a disposable
site looks like, so it is worth noting rather than concluding from.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does target.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 12% of them (median 438ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 83% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 70% of them |
Related domains in this index
Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS54113 Fastly, 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 target.com registered?
target.com was registered on 2 January 1997, 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 Corporate Domains, LLC.
Registration runs until 1 January 2028.
The domain carries 4 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 2 January 1997 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 1 January 2028 |
| Registrar | GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC |
| Registry status | client transfer prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is target.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Montreal, Canada.
The network is operated by Fastly, Inc. (AS54113 Fastly, 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 target.com running on?
target.com exposes 1 identifiable technology: Next.js.
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.
- Next.js
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 1056ms to first byte this response is slow for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 405KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | not disclosed |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 414,987 bytes |
| Declared language | en-US |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 31 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
There is no meta description, so the snippet shown in search results is assembled by the search engine from whatever text it considers relevant.
All 43 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Target : Expect More. Pay Less. (31 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | — none — (0 chars) |
| H1 | Homepage (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | not set |
| Open Graph title | not set |
| Headings / images | 15 H2s, 43 images (0 without alt text) |
Is target.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by GlobalSign nv-sa and is
valid until 2027-03-11, which is 157 days from the date of this check. It covers
68 hostnames.
- sites.target.com
- apollo-metrics.target.com
- assethub.partnersonline.com
- assethub.target.com
- bex.partnersonline.com
- bex.target.com
- cartster.target.com
- circle.target.com
- connect.roundel.com
- corporate.target.com
- developer.target.com
- doppler.partnersonline.com
The certificate has 157 days left to run.
It covers 68 hostnames, which is characteristic of a shared or platform-issued certificate rather than one bought for this domain alone.
Which security headers does it set?
5 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy). Absent: Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains |
| Content Security Policy | yes | frame-ancestors 'self' https://*.target.com; |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | yes | no-referrer-when-downgrade |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for target.com?
| IP addresses | 151.101.66.187, 151.101.2.187, 151.101.130.187, 151.101.194.187 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 151.101.66.187, 151.101.2.187 |
| Name servers | ns7-64.akam.net, ns1-168.akam.net, ns4-65.akam.net, ns5-65.akam.net |
| Mail (MX) | mxb-0020ab02.gslb.pphosted.com (pri 5), mxa-0020ab02.gslb.pphosted.com (pri 5) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com include:aspmx.pardot.com ~all |
| TXT records | 27 |
target.com resolves to 4 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 151.101.66.187, 151.101.2.187, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for target.com?
DNS is operated by Akamai 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.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about target.com?
64 of 64 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 target.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 4 named authorities (issue globalsign.com, iodef mailto:[email protected], issue sectigo.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 target.com publish?
An ads.txt file is published with 4 entries, which means the site sells programmatic advertising and has declared who may resell its inventory.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 3,226 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.target.com/sitemap_keywords-index.xml.gz
- https://www.target.com/sitemap_stores-index.xml.gz
- https://www.target.com/sitemap_taxonomy-categories-index.xml.gz
- https://www.target.com/sitemap_pdp-index.xml.gz
- https://www.target.com/sitemap_taxonomy-brand-index.xml.gz
- https://www.target.com/sitemap_facet-categories-index.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?
- WebPage
- BreadcrumbList
- ListItem
The homepage publishes 3 structured data types: WebPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem.
What does target.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 5 third-party hosts (assets.targetimg1.com, client.px-cloud.net, pub.doubleverify.com, securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, target.scene7.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
11 cookies are set before any interaction (adScriptData, idToken, egsSessionId, accessToken, visitorId). 2 lack the Secure flag.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| adScriptData | yes | no | lax |
| idToken | yes | no | lax |
| egsSessionId | yes | yes | none |
| accessToken | yes | yes | lax |
| visitorId | yes | no | none |
| onboardingGuest | yes | no | lax |
| TealeafAkaSid | no | no | none/unset |
| GuestLocation | yes | no | none/unset |
| sapphire | yes | no | none |
| refreshToken | yes | yes | lax |
| _pxhd | no | no | lax |
Does target.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both target.com and www.target.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 target.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.target.com/sitemap_keywords-index.xml.gz listing 27 entries.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does target.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of target.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does target.com look when shared?
3 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:image, twitter:card.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
43 images on the homepage, 24 of them lazy-loaded (56%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
The page pulls 18 external stylesheets and 64 external scripts, with 64 carrying defer or async.
Is target.com accessible and current?
The page uses 4 landmark elements and 125 ARIA attributes.
There are 5 form inputs but only 3 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
Can search engines index target.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
No canonical URL is declared, which leaves duplicate addresses of this page to be resolved by the search engine.
The homepage carries 60 internal and 1 external link across 1 outside host.
Visible text is only 0.7% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is target.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: private, no-cache.
The TLS certificate also covers 8 subdomains: sites.target.com, apollo-metrics.target.com, assethub.target.com, bex.target.com, cartster.target.com, circle.target.com, corporate.target.com, developer.target.com.
- sites.target.com
- apollo-metrics.target.com
- assethub.target.com
- bex.target.com
- cartster.target.com
- circle.target.com
- corporate.target.com
- developer.target.com
Frequently asked questions
Does target.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 5 of 6. The ones not present are: Permissions-Policy.
Does target.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 target.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Next.js. 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 target.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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