archive.org

Live check Visit ↗

archive.org is ranked #147 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 5 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Dec 14, 1995, 30 years, 10 months ago, through easyDNS Technologies Inc., and is paid up until Dec 13, 2030. It is served by Nginx.

Global rank

#147

▼ 2 this week

Domain age

30 years

since Dec 14, 1995

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

66/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#147 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #142.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where archive.org sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Dec 14, 1995 (30 years, 10 months ago)
Expires: Dec 13, 2030
Registrar: easyDNS Technologies Inc.
Name servers: ns3.archive.org, ns1.archive.org, ns2.archive.org, ns-global.kjsl.com, ns0036.secondary.cloudflare.com, ns0208.secondary.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC: Not signed

From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 1, 2026.

Technology stack

Web servers

Nginx 1.31.3

Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.

Homepage SEO check

Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.

66/100

https://archive.org/

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

(no meta description)

11 passed · 7 warnings · 4 failed

Content

!Title93 characters — aim for 15–65
✕Meta descriptionMissing
✕H1 headingMissing in the served HTML
!SubheadingsNo H2 headings in the served HTML
iImage alt textNo images in the served HTML
✕Content lengthAbout 0 words in the served HTML

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
!Canonical URLMissing
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen
!Structured dataNo JSON-LD or microdata

Social sharing

✕Open GraphMissing
!Twitter / X cardMissing

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
✓FaviconFound
✓Character encodingutf-8

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
✓Content-Security-PolicySet
!Clickjacking protectionNot set
!X-Content-Type-OptionsNot set
✓Referrer-PolicySet

Server response

Final URL: https://archive.org/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx/1.31.3
Response time: 175 ms (first byte 175 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 1.9 KB
Compression: gzip

Sites ranked near archive.org

Rank	Website	Registered	Built with
#142	vk.com	1997	PHP
#143	afternic.com	1999	Next.js, React
#144	adobe.io	2012	Fastly
#145	ipify.org	2014	Amazon CloudFront, cdnjs, jQuery
#146	azurefd.net	2018	Azure Front Door
#148	forms.gle	2019	Fastly
#149	kaspersky.com	1997	Next.js, React, Nginx
#150	godaddy.com	1999	Akamai
#151	amazon-adsystem.com	2011	—
#152	gravatar.com	2004	WordPress, Nginx

Questions about archive.org

How popular is archive.org?

archive.org is #147 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is archive.org?

archive.org was registered on Dec 14, 1995, which makes the domain 30 years, 10 months old.

What is archive.org built with?

We detected Nginx on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of archive.org?

easyDNS Technologies Inc., according to the registry's RDAP record.