weather.com — domain analysis
weather.com describes itself as "Dagens och kvällens väderprognos, väderförhållanden och Dopplerradar för Stockholm, Stockholms län från The Weather Channel och Weather.com". It is built on Next.js, registered in 1994, served from Helsinki, Finland. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 1 of 6 common security headers.
What is weather.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:
- weather ×3
- leftidagtimvis10 ×2
- dagarvarje ×2
- nadchevron ×2
Does weather.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 weather.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.
| Response time | Faster than 78% of them (median 455ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 54% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 95% of them |
Related domains in this index
Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS16625 Akamai Technologies, Inc.):
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:
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was weather.com registered?
weather.com was registered on 9 August 1994, which makes it about 32 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 CSC Corporate Domains, Inc..
Registration runs until 25 January 2027.
The domain carries 4 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 9 August 1994 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 25 January 2027 |
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. |
| Registry status | client transfer prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is weather.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Helsinki, Finland.
The network is operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AS16625 Akamai Technologies, Inc.).
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 weather.com running on?
weather.com exposes 2 identifiable technologies: Next.js, X-Powered-By: Next.js.
The build output indicates a server-rendered JavaScript framework, which means the HTML served to crawlers is generated ahead of time rather than assembled in the browser.
- Next.js
- X-Powered-By: Next.js
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 175ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 351KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | Vercel |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 358,971 bytes |
| Declared language | sv-SE |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title runs to 102 characters, so search results will truncate it and the end of the sentence will not be read.
A meta description of 139 characters is present.
There are 2 H1 headings. One is conventional; several dilute the signal about what the page is primarily about.
All 7 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Väderprognoser och väderförhållanden för Stockholm, Stockholms län – The Weather Channel | Weather.com (102 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Dagens och kvällens väderprognos, väderförhållanden och Dopplerradar för Stockholm, Stockholms län från The Weather Channel och Weather.com (139 chars) |
| H1 | Stockholm Väder (2 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://weather.com/sv-SE/se/stockholm/city/stockholm/today |
| Open Graph title | Väderprognoser och väderförhållanden för Stockholm, Stockholms län – The Weather Channel | Weather.com |
| Headings / images | 1 H2s, 7 images (0 without alt text) |
Is weather.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is
valid until 2027-01-05, which is 92 days from the date of this check. It covers
24 hostnames.
- weather.com
- *.cogads.weather.com
- *.dev.cogads.weather.com
- *.qa.cogads.weather.com
- *.w-x.co
- *.weather.com
- *.wsi.com
- *.wunderground.com
- *.wxug.com
- crazimals.com
- dev.theweathercompany.info
- stage.theweathercompany.info
The certificate has 92 days left to run.
It covers 24 hostnames, which is characteristic of a shared or platform-issued certificate rather than one bought for this domain alone.
Which security headers does it set?
1 of 6 are set (HSTS). Absent: Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-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=63072000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload |
| Content Security Policy | no | — |
| X-Content-Type-Options | no | — |
| X-Frame-Options | no | — |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for weather.com?
| IP addresses | 184.51.234.186, 2a02:26f0:e80:18f::2e03, 2a02:26f0:e80:183::2e03 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | a184-51-234-186.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, g2a02-26f0-0e80-018f-0000-0000-0000-2e03.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com |
| Name servers | a1-70.akam.net, a10-65.akam.net, a11-66.akam.net, a13-67.akam.net, a14-64.akam.net, a24-65.akam.net |
| Mail (MX) | aspmx.l.google.com (pri 1), aspmx2.googlemail.com (pri 10), alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), aspmx3.googlemail.com (pri 10), alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5) |
| SPF | v=spf1 ip4:96.8.80.136 ip4:96.8.80.135 ip4:96.8.82.135 ip4:96.8.84.135 ip4:96.8.88.240 ip4:208.106.251.89 ip4:65.212.71.11 ip4:96.8.93.78 ip4:96.8.93.79 ip4:96.8.92.25 ip4:185.57.95.81 ip4:54.208.146.123 ip4:52.90.110.211 ip4:54.174.191.95 a:zgateway.zuora.com include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:mktomail.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ~all |
| TXT records | 46 |
weather.com resolves to 3 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 5 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to a184-51-234-186.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, g2a02-26f0-0e80-018f-0000-0000-0000-2e03.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for weather.com?
DNS is operated by Akamai rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Google Workspace.
The domain publishes AAAA records and accepts connections over IPv6.
What else is worth noting about weather.com?
11 email addresses appear in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find them.
The server discloses software detail in x-powered-by, which tells an attacker what to target without them having to probe for it.
Can weather.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to quarantine, so mail failing authentication is sent to spam rather than the inbox.
CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 6 named authorities (issue pki.goog, issue letsencrypt.org, issue globalsign.com, issue digicert.com), so no other CA should be able to issue 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 weather.com publish?
A security.txt file is published, giving security researchers a documented way to report vulnerabilities. Very few sites bother.
An ads.txt file is published with 194 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 3,576 bytes and names
28 user-agent groups.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://weather.com/en-US/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
- https://weather.com/pt-PT/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
- https://weather.com/de-DE/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
- https://weather.com/fr-FR/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
- https://weather.com/es-US/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
- https://weather.com/es-ES/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
- https://weather.com/en-IN/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
- https://weather.com/en-GB/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
AI crawler policy
| Crawler | Policy |
|---|---|
| ccbot | blocked |
| bytespider | blocked |
8 sitemaps are declared in robots.txt, which gives crawlers a direct list of URLs.
Every named AI crawler is blocked (ccbot, bytespider). This domain has opted out of AI training and AI answer surfaces wholesale.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- WebPage
- Organization
- ImageObject
- City
- PostalAddress
- GeoCoordinates
The homepage publishes 6 structured data types: WebPage, Organization, ImageObject, City, PostalAddress, GeoCoordinates.
What does weather.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 11 third-party hosts (aax.amazon-adsystem.com, accounts.google.com, c.amazon-adsystem.com, cdn.privacy-mgmt.com, client.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
1 cookie is set before any interaction (ci).
3 resources are referenced over plain HTTP on an HTTPS page, which browsers block or flag as mixed content.
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| ci | yes | no | none/unset |
Does weather.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
The www address redirects to https://weather.com/, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can weather.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://weather.com/en-US/sitemaps/sitemap.xml listing 33 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 weather.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of weather.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does weather.com look when shared?
4 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:image.
The page declares 214 hreflang alternates (ar-AE, ar-BH, ar-DJ, ar-DZ, ar-EG, ar-ER, ar-IL, ar-IQ, ar-JO, ar-KM, ar-KW, ar-LB), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
7 images on the homepage, 6 of them lazy-loaded (86%).
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 2 external stylesheets and 45 external scripts, with 43 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Vercel edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is weather.com accessible and current?
The page uses 4 landmark elements and 43 ARIA attributes.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index weather.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 27 internal and 10 external links across 7 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 0.4% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is weather.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate.
A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.
The TLS certificate also covers 3 subdomains: cogads.weather.com, dev.cogads.weather.com, qa.cogads.weather.com.
- cogads.weather.com
- dev.cogads.weather.com
- qa.cogads.weather.com
Frequently asked questions
Does weather.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 1 of 6. The ones not present are: Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does weather.com allow AI crawlers?
No — robots.txt blocks ccbot, bytespider.
What is weather.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Next.js, X-Powered-By: Next.js. 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 weather.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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