rediff.com — domain analysis

200HTTP status

248msResponse time

1,986Words on the homepage

1/6Security headers set

What is rediff.com about?

The words appearing most often on the homepage, excluding common filler, are
a rough indication of subject matter rather than a description of the business:

• hours ×54
• days ×51
• india ×14
• asian ×13
• games ×13
• read ×6
• years ×6
• gets ×5
• portugal ×5
• indian ×5

Does rediff.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 rediff.com compare with other domains analysed here?

Measured against the 81 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.

Related domains in this index

Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS20940 Akamai International B.V.):

• rolex.com

Sharing a network means sharing a host or CDN. It implies nothing about a
relationship between the sites themselves.

Analysed domains built on a similar stack:

• ahrefs.com
• cottage.com
• clarin.com
• diariopanorama.com.ar
• fakaza.com
• fotomac.com.tr
• gmanetwork.com
• hot51.com

Other analysed domains served from the same country:

• chelseafc.com
• marriott.com
• mmshunt.com

When was rediff.com registered?

rediff.com was registered on 8 February 1997, which makes it about 29 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 Network Solutions, LLC.

Registration runs until 9 February 2034.

The domain carries 1 registry lock, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.

Where is rediff.com hosted?

The first address resolves to infrastructure in Haarlem, The Netherlands.

The network is operated by Akamai Technologies (AS20940 Akamai International B.V.).

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 rediff.com running on?

rediff.com exposes 1 identifiable technology: Google Analytics.

Visitor tracking is present (Google Analytics), so this homepage is not cookie-free.

• Google Analytics

How does the homepage respond?

The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.

At 248ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.

The HTML weighs 145KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.

The HTML is compressed with gzip.

What does the homepage say about itself?

The title is 59 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.

A meta description of 158 characters is present.

No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.

All 157 images on the homepage have alt attributes.

Is rediff.com served over a valid certificate?

The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is
valid until 2026-11-21, which is 47 days from the date of this check. It covers
2 hostnames.

• *.rediff.com
• rediff.com

The certificate has 47 days left to run.

It covers 2 hostnames, so it was issued for this site specifically.

Which security headers does it set?

1 of 6 are set (X-Frame-Options). Absent: HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.

Without HSTS, a browser that has never visited before will try HTTP first, which is the window a network attacker needs.

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.

How is DNS configured for rediff.com?

rediff.com resolves to 4 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.

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 a2-16-27-72.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, a2-16-27-70.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, which usually names the hosting provider.

Who runs DNS and mail for rediff.com?

DNS is operated by Akamai rather than self-hosted name servers.

Mail exchangers point at hosts that do not match any major provider, which usually means self-hosted or niche-provider mail.

The domain publishes AAAA records and accepts connections over IPv6.

What else is worth noting about rediff.com?

4 of 4 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.

Can rediff.com be spoofed in email?

DMARC is set to reject, the strictest setting: mail that fails authentication is refused outright. This is the configuration that actually stops domain spoofing.

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 rediff.com publish?

An ads.txt file is published with 340 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 608 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.

It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.

Sitemaps declared:

• https://www.rediff.com/sitemap.xml
• https://www.rediff.com/gnewssitemap.xml
• https://www.rediff.com/daily-sitemap.xml
• https://www.rediff.com/newssitemap.xml
• https://www.rediff.com/moviessitemap.xml
• https://www.rediff.com/sportssitemap.xml
• https://www.rediff.com/businesssitemap.xml
• https://www.rediff.com/getaheadsitemap.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?

• NewsMediaOrganization
• ImageObject
• PostalAddress
• ContactPoint
• SiteNavigationElement
• WebPage
• SpeakableSpecification
• ItemList
• ListItem

The homepage publishes 9 structured data types: NewsMediaOrganization, ImageObject, PostalAddress, ContactPoint, SiteNavigationElement, WebPage, SpeakableSpecification, ItemList, ListItem.

What does rediff.com load from third parties?

The homepage pulls resources from 5 third-party hosts (cdn.izooto.com, google-analytics.com, googletagmanager.com, sb.scorecardresearch.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, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.

Does rediff.com settle on one address?

Both rediff.com and www.rediff.com answer with 200 and neither redirects to the other. Search engines therefore see two complete copies of the site, and link equity is split between them unless a canonical tag resolves it.

How easily can rediff.com be crawled?

A sitemap index is served at https://www.rediff.com/sitemap.xml listing 9 entries.

The most recent lastmod date is 2026-10-05.

A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.

What tracking does rediff.com run?

1 tracking script detected: Google Analytics.

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 rediff.com look when shared?

4 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: twitter:card.

How are images, fonts and scripts handled?

157 images on the homepage, 145 of them lazy-loaded (92%).

All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.

No srcset attributes are used, so every device is served the same image size regardless of screen.

The page pulls 1 external stylesheet and 5 external scripts, with 5 carrying defer or async.

Is rediff.com accessible and current?

The page uses 3 landmark elements and 43 ARIA attributes.

There are 1 form inputs but only 0 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.

No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.

Can search engines index rediff.com?

Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.

The homepage carries 465 internal and 6 external links across 6 outside hosts.

Visible text makes up 8.4% of the HTML.

How is rediff.com delivered?

The HTML is served with Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store.

HTTP/3 is advertised via alt-svc, so modern browsers will upgrade to QUIC after the first visit.

Frequently asked questions

Does rediff.com set the usual HTTP security headers?

It sets 1 of 6. The ones not present are: HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.

Does rediff.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 rediff.com built with?

The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Google Analytics. 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 5 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 rediff.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 5 October 2026.
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