xkcd.com

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xkcd.com is ranked #3,656 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 54 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Jan 26, 2003, 23 years, 8 months ago, through GoDaddy.com, LLC, and is paid up until Jan 26, 2028. It is served through Fastly by Nginx.

Global rank

#3,656

▲ 15 this week

Domain age

23 years

since Jan 26, 2003

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

59/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#3,656 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: #3,598.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where xkcd.com sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Jan 26, 2003 (23 years, 8 months ago)
Expires: Jan 26, 2028
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Name servers: ns-cloud-d1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d4.googledomains.com
DNSSEC: Not signed

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

Technology stack

CDN

Fastly

Web servers

Nginx

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.

59/100

https://xkcd.com/

xkcd: Rejected Space Mission Profiles

(no meta description)

7 passed · 13 warnings · 3 failed

Content

✓Title37 characters
✕Meta descriptionMissing
✕H1 headingMissing in the served HTML
!SubheadingsNo H2 headings in the served HTML
✓Image alt textAll 5 images have alt text
!Content lengthAbout 192 words in the served HTML

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
!Canonical URLMissing
✓robots.txtFound
!XML sitemapNot found
!Language attributeMissing
!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 viewportMissing
✓FaviconFound
!Character encodingNot declared

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://xkcd.com/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 15 ms (first byte 15 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 7.2 KB
Compression: br

Sites ranked near xkcd.com

Rank	Website	Registered	Built with
#3,651	cnr.it	—	Drupal, Nginx, jQuery
#3,652	pchome.com.tw	—	cdnjs, jsDelivr, jQuery
#3,653	boston.com	1995	WordPress, Cloudflare, Fastly
#3,654	google.cz	2000	—
#3,655	trimble.com	1992	Next.js, React, Netlify
#3,657	lokalise.com	2016	Next.js, React, Amazon CloudFront
#3,658	immobilienscout24.de	—	Amazon CloudFront
#3,659	arbeitsagentur.de	—	Next.js, React, Matomo
#3,660	awsdns-01.com	2010	—
#3,661	samsungcloudcdn.com	2014	—

Questions about xkcd.com

How popular is xkcd.com?

xkcd.com is #3,656 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is xkcd.com?

xkcd.com was registered on Jan 26, 2003, which makes the domain 23 years, 8 months old.

What is xkcd.com built with?

We detected Fastly and Nginx on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of xkcd.com?

GoDaddy.com, LLC, according to the registry's RDAP record.