thehindu.com
thehindu.com is ranked #2,976 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), down 3 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Mar 1, 1996, 30 years, 7 months ago, through eNom, LLC, and is paid up until Mar 2, 2028. Its homepage uses Bootstrap, Google Fonts, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Ad Manager. It is served through Cloudflare.
Popularity rank
#2,976 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: #2,886.
Domain registration
- Registered
- Mar 1, 1996 (30 years, 7 months ago)
- Expires
- Mar 2, 2028
- Registrar
- eNom, LLC
- Name servers
damon.ns.cloudflare.com,serena.ns.cloudflare.com- DNSSEC
- Not 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.
20 passed · 3 warnings · 0 failed
Content
- !Title121 characters — aim for 15–65
- ✓Meta description127 characters
- ✓H1 headingExactly one H1
- ✓Subheadings12 H2 headings
- !Image alt text7 of 118 images have no alt text
- ✓Content lengthAbout 2,481 words
Indexing
- ✓IndexableNo noindex directive
- ✓Canonical URLhttps://www.thehindu.com/
- ✓robots.txtFound
- ✓XML sitemapFound
- ✓Language attributeen
- ✓Structured dataMicrodata
Social sharing
- ✓Open GraphTitle, description and image 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-PolicyNot set
Server response
- Final URL
https://www.thehindu.com/- HTTP status
- 200
- Server
cloudflare- Response time
- 6.13 s (first byte 6.13 s, from our scanner in a US data centre)
- HTML size
- 325 KB
- Compression
- br
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|---|---|---|
| #2,971 | heart.org | 1995 |
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| #2,973 | nasdaq.com | 1993 |
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| #2,977 | tenor.com | 1995 |
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Questions about thehindu.com
How popular is thehindu.com?
thehindu.com is #2,976 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.
How old is thehindu.com?
thehindu.com was registered on Mar 1, 1996, which makes the domain 30 years, 7 months old.
What is thehindu.com built with?
We detected Bootstrap, Google Fonts, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ad Manager and Cloudflare on its homepage.
Who is the registrar of thehindu.com?
eNom, LLC, according to the registry's RDAP record.