chelseafc.com — domain analysis
chelseafc.com describes itself as "Welcome to the official Chelsea FC website. All the latest news, videos and ticket information as well as player profiles and information about Stamford Bridge, the home of the…". It was registered in 1998, served from Amsterdam, Netherlands. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 2 of 6 common security headers, 3 tracking scripts.
Does chelseafc.com publish the usual trust pages?
None of about, contact, privacy or terms could be found at their usual addresses.
That is common for small or single-purpose sites, and it is also what a disposable
site looks like, so it is worth noting rather than concluding from.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does chelseafc.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 11 domains in this index. This is a
small, self-selected sample — the domains people happened to look up — not a
representative sample of the web.
| Response time | Faster than 55% of them (median 417ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 44% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 82% of them |
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When was chelseafc.com registered?
chelseafc.com was registered on 12 September 1998, which makes it about 28 years old.
A registration this old means the domain has been renewed repeatedly, which costs money every year and is not something abandoned or disposable projects tend to do.
The registrar of record is GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Registration runs until 3 March 2028.
The domain carries 4 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 12 September 1998 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 3 March 2028 |
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client renew prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited |
Where is chelseafc.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The network is operated by Microsoft Azure App Service (westeurope) (AS8075 Microsoft Corporation).
Hosting location describes where the responding server sits, not where the business is. A CDN will report its nearest edge rather than the origin.
What is chelseafc.com running on?
chelseafc.com exposes 1 identifiable technology: Google Tag Manager.
Visitor tracking is present (Google Tag Manager), so this homepage is not cookie-free.
- Google Tag Manager
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 412ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML alone is 560KB before images, stylesheets or scripts are counted, which is heavy for a document that browsers must parse before anything renders.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | Kestrel |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 572,982 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 48 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
The meta description is 247 characters and will be cut short in most result layouts.
No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.
| Title | Homepage | Official Site | Chelsea Football Club (48 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Welcome to the official Chelsea FC website. All the latest news, videos and ticket information as well as player profiles and information about Stamford Bridge, the home of the Blues. Browse the online shop for Chelsea FC products and merchandise. (247 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (0 on the page) |
| Canonical | not set |
| Open Graph title | Homepage |
| Headings / images | 0 H2s, 0 images (0 without alt text) |
Is chelseafc.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is
valid until 2026-12-25, which is 82 days from the date of this check. It covers
1 hostname.
- chelseafc.com
The certificate has 82 days left to run.
It covers 1 hostname, so it was issued for this site specifically.
Which security headers does it set?
2 of 6 are set (HSTS, X-Frame-Options). Absent: Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
With no Content Security Policy, any script that reaches the page — including one injected through a compromised third-party dependency — runs with full access to it.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=300 |
| Content Security Policy | no | — |
| X-Content-Type-Options | no | — |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | DENY |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for chelseafc.com?
| IP addresses | 20.105.224.46 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 20.105.224.46 |
| Name servers | ns-414.awsdns-51.com, ns-1020.awsdns-63.net, ns-1208.awsdns-23.org, ns-1547.awsdns-01.co.uk |
| Mail (MX) | chelseafc-com.mail.protection.outlook.com (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 mx include:chelseafc.timepursuit.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.smtp2go.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:em119.chelseafc.com include:em776.chelseafc.com ip4:18.168.51.200 ip4:18.168.140.58 ip4:83.244.198.229 ip4:167.89.0.0/17 ip4:208.117.48.0/20 ip4:50.31.32.0/19 ip4:198.37.144.0/20 ip4:198.21.0.0/21 ip4:192.254.112.0/20 ip4:168.245.0.0/17 ip4:149.72.0.0/16 ip4:159.183.0.0/16 ip4:223.165.113.0/24 ip4:223.165.115.0/24 ip4:223.165.118.0/23 ip4:223.165.120.0/23 ip4:62.6.152.40 ip4:148.59.101.16/28 include:mail.sunrise-saas.com -all |
| TXT records | 14 |
chelseafc.com resolves to a single address, so there is no DNS-level redundancy.
Mail is handled by 1 exchanger.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to 20.105.224.46, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for chelseafc.com?
DNS is operated by Amazon Route 53 rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Microsoft 365.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about chelseafc.com?
2 of 2 externally hosted scripts carry no subresource integrity hash. If one of those hosts were compromised, the replacement script would run with full access to the page.
1 email address appears in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find it.
Can chelseafc.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to quarantine, so mail failing authentication is sent to spam rather than the inbox.
No CAA records are published, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for this domain.
The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. That is still the norm for most domains, but it means DNS answers cannot be cryptographically verified.
What else does chelseafc.com publish?
An ads.txt file is published with 238 entries, which means the site sells programmatic advertising and has declared who may resell its inventory.
An app-ads.txt file is also published, which indicates mobile app inventory alongside the website.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 273 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.chelseafc.com/en/sitemap.xml
- https://www.chelseafc.com/en/sitemap.xml
- https://www.chelseafc.com/en/sitemap.xml
- https://www.chelseafc.com/en/sitemap.xml
- https://www.chelseafc.com/en/sitemap.xml
AI crawler policy
robots.txt names no AI crawlers specifically, so they fall under whatever rule
applies to User-agent: *.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
No JSON-LD or microdata was found on the homepage.
What does chelseafc.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 9 third-party hosts (adservice.google.co.uk, apis.google.com, connect.facebook.net, googleadservices.com, googletagmanager.com, securepubads.g.doubleclick.net). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
No cookies are set on first load.
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
Does chelseafc.com settle on one address?
The www address redirects, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can chelseafc.com be crawled?
A sitemap is served at https://www.chelseafc.com/en/sitemap.xml listing 10,679 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-07-27.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does chelseafc.com run?
3 tracking scripts detected: Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight.
No consent management platform was detected alongside them. Where GDPR or the ePrivacy Directive applies, analytics and advertising scripts generally need consent before they load.
How does chelseafc.com look when shared?
4 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:description.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
The page pulls 1 external stylesheet and 5 external scripts, with 5 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Varnish/Fastly edge and edge cache edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is chelseafc.com accessible and current?
The page uses 1 landmark element and 0 ARIA attributes.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index chelseafc.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
No canonical URL is declared, which leaves duplicate addresses of this page to be resolved by the search engine.
Visible text is only 0% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is chelseafc.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: public, max-age=120.
A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.
Frequently asked questions
Does chelseafc.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 2 of 6. The ones not present are: Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does chelseafc.com allow AI crawlers?
robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.
What is chelseafc.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Google Tag Manager. A site behind a CDN or rendered server-side may use more than it reveals.
Where does this data come from?
Every figure was measured by our own server on 4 October 2026: DNS lookups, one HTTPS request to the homepage, a TLS handshake and a request for robots.txt. No third-party SEO API is involved.
Is any of this traffic or authority data?
No. Traffic, authority and ranking figures cannot be measured by inspecting a domain, only modelled. Everything here is a direct observation.
I own chelseafc.com and want this page removed.
Ask through the contact page on this site, from an address at the domain, and the report will be taken down. It only ever shows what the domain already serves publicly.
Analysed 4 October 2026.
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