kotaku.com
kotaku.com is ranked #5,169 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 119 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Mar 5, 2002, 24 years, 7 months ago, through Gandi SAS, and is paid up until Mar 5, 2027. Its homepage uses jQuery, WordPress, Font Awesome, Cloudflare Web Analytics and Google Tag Manager. It is served through cdnjs and Cloudflare.
Popularity rank
#5,169 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: #5,160.
Domain registration
- Registered
- Mar 5, 2002 (24 years, 7 months ago)
- Expires
- Mar 5, 2027
- Registrar
- Gandi SAS
- Name servers
agustin.ns.cloudflare.com,monika.ns.cloudflare.com- DNSSEC
- Signed
From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 1, 2026.
Technology stack
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.
21 passed · 1 warnings · 1 failed
Content
- ✓Title45 characters
- ✕Meta descriptionMissing
- ✓H1 headingExactly one H1
- ✓Subheadings17 H2 headings
- ✓Image alt textAll 62 images have alt text
- ✓Content lengthAbout 1,357 words
Indexing
- ✓IndexableNo noindex directive
- ✓Canonical URLhttps://kotaku.com/
- ✓robots.txtFound
- ✓XML sitemapFound
- ✓Language attributeen-US
- ✓Structured dataArticle, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, Organization, Person
Social sharing
- !Open Graph2 of 3 key tags set
- ✓Twitter / X cardsummary_large_image
Technical
- ✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
- ✓Mobile viewportFound
- ✓FaviconFound
- ✓Character encodingutf-8
Security headers
- ✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
- ✓Content-Security-PolicySet
- ✓Clickjacking protectionSet
- ✓X-Content-Type-OptionsSet
- ✓Referrer-PolicySet
Server response
- Final URL
https://kotaku.com/- HTTP status
- 200
- Server
cloudflare- Response time
- 285 ms (first byte 87 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
- HTML size
- 178 KB
- Compression
- br
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|---|---|---|
| #5,164 | illusionblack.com | 2016 |
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| #5,174 | test.com | 1997 |
Questions about kotaku.com
How popular is kotaku.com?
kotaku.com is #5,169 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.
How old is kotaku.com?
kotaku.com was registered on Mar 5, 2002, which makes the domain 24 years, 7 months old.
What is kotaku.com built with?
We detected jQuery, WordPress, Font Awesome, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Google Tag Manager, cdnjs and Cloudflare on its homepage.
Who is the registrar of kotaku.com?
Gandi SAS, according to the registry's RDAP record.