metacritic.com
metacritic.com is ranked #8,500 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), down 265 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Jul 16, 1999, 27 years, 2 months ago, through Tucows Domains Inc., and is paid up until Jul 16, 2027. Its homepage uses Nuxt, Vue.js, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Amazon Ads and Google Ad Manager. It is served through Cloudflare.
Popularity rank
#8,500 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: #5,693.
Domain registration
- Registered
- Jul 16, 1999 (27 years, 2 months ago)
- Expires
- Jul 16, 2027
- Registrar
- Tucows Domains Inc.
- Name servers
ns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com,ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com,ns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com,ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com- DNSSEC
- Not signed
From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 7, 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.
13 passed · 9 warnings · 1 failed
Content
- !Title71 characters — aim for 15–65
- !Meta description178 characters — aim for 50–170
- ✕H1 headingMissing in the served HTML
- ✓Subheadings13 H2 headings
- ✓Image alt textAll 206 images have alt text
- ✓Content lengthAbout 1,375 words
Indexing
- ✓IndexableNo noindex directive
- ✓Canonical URLhttps://www.metacritic.com/
- ✓robots.txtFound
- ✓XML sitemapFound
- ✓Language attributeen
- !Structured dataNo JSON-LD or microdata
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-SecurityNot set
- !Content-Security-PolicyNot set
- !Clickjacking protectionNot set
- !X-Content-Type-OptionsNot set
- !Referrer-PolicyNot set
Server response
- Final URL
https://www.metacritic.com/- HTTP status
- 200
- Server
cloudflare- Response time
- 2.44 s (first byte 2.43 s, from our scanner in a US data centre)
- HTML size
- 1.4 MB
- Compression
- gzip
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Questions about metacritic.com
How popular is metacritic.com?
metacritic.com is #8,500 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.
How old is metacritic.com?
metacritic.com was registered on Jul 16, 1999, which makes the domain 27 years, 2 months old.
What is metacritic.com built with?
We detected Nuxt, Vue.js, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Amazon Ads, Google Ad Manager and Cloudflare on its homepage.
Who is the registrar of metacritic.com?
Tucows Domains Inc., according to the registry's RDAP record.