yourstory.com — domain analysis
yourstory.com describes itself as "YourStory.com is India's biggest platform dedicated to foster the startup ecosystem via entrepreneurship related stories, resources, products, research reports and more". It is built on Next.js, registered in 2001, served from Toronto, Canada. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 2 of 6 common security headers, 2 tracking scripts.
What is yourstory.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:
- contenttype ×189
- data ×188
- value ×188
- formats ×177
- text ×176
- yourstory ×81
- india ×69
- news ×68
- https ×56
- header ×56
Does yourstory.com publish the usual trust pages?
All four of the pages a established business normally publishes were found:
about, contact, privacy and terms.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does yourstory.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 44% of them (median 455ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 77% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 62% of them |
Related domains in this index
Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.):
Sharing a network means sharing a host or CDN. It implies nothing about a
relationship between the sites themselves.
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- chelseafc.com
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- fakaza.com
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- ierodoules.com
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was yourstory.com registered?
yourstory.com was registered on 17 April 2001, which makes it about 25 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 17 April 2032.
The domain carries 4 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 17 April 2001 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 17 April 2032 |
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client renew prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited |
Where is yourstory.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Toronto, Canada.
The network is operated by Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335 Cloudflare, 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 yourstory.com running on?
yourstory.com exposes 4 identifiable technologies: Next.js, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare.
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.
Cloudflare sits in front of the origin, so the server header, IP addresses and response timing describe the edge rather than the machine actually running the site.
Visitor tracking is present (Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager), so this homepage is not cookie-free.
- Next.js
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 529ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML alone is 1389KB 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 | cloudflare |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 1,422,434 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 54 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
The meta description is 168 characters and will be cut short in most result layouts.
All 88 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | YourStory | Stories about startups & entrepreneurships (54 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | YourStory.com is India's biggest platform dedicated to foster the startup ecosystem via entrepreneurship related stories, resources, products, research reports and more (168 chars) |
| H1 | Yourstory (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://yourstory.com |
| Open Graph title | YourStory | Stories about startups & entrepreneurships |
| Headings / images | 27 H2s, 88 images (0 without alt text) |
Is yourstory.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Google Trust Services and is
valid until 2026-12-12, which is 68 days from the date of this check. It covers
3 hostnames.
- yourstory.com
- techsparks.yourstory.com
- *.techsparks.yourstory.com
The certificate has 68 days left to run.
Which security headers does it set?
2 of 6 are set (Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options). Absent: HSTS, 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.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | no | — |
| Content Security Policy | yes | frame-ancestors 'self' studio.yourstory.com studio-preprod.yourstory.com www.youtube.com; |
| X-Content-Type-Options | no | — |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for yourstory.com?
| IP addresses | 104.26.10.230, 104.26.11.230, 172.67.69.233, 2606:4700:20::ac43:45e9, 2606:4700:20::681a:be6, 2606:4700:20::681a:ae6 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 104.26.10.230, 104.26.11.230 |
| Name servers | melany.ns.cloudflare.com, sean.ns.cloudflare.com |
| Mail (MX) | aspmx2.googlemail.com (pri 40), aspmx3.googlemail.com (pri 50), aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 20), alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 30) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ip4:54.240.30.251 include:ncapp02.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com ~all |
| TXT records | 12 |
yourstory.com resolves to 6 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 104.26.10.230, 104.26.11.230, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for yourstory.com?
DNS is operated by Cloudflare rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Google Workspace.
The domain publishes AAAA records and accepts connections over IPv6.
Can yourstory.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 yourstory.com publish?
An ads.txt file is published with 161 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 3,735 bytes and names
33 user-agent groups.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://yourstory.com/sitemap_index.xml
- https://yourstory.com/herstory/sitemap_index.xml
- https://yourstory.com/socialstory/sitemap_index.xml
- https://yourstory.com/enterprise-story/sitemap_index.xml
- https://yourstory.com/ys-life/sitemap_index.xml
- https://yourstory.com/ai-story/sitemap_index.xml
- https://yourstory.com/hindi/sitemap_index.xml
- https://yourstory.com/tamil/sitemap_index.xml
AI crawler policy
| Crawler | Policy |
|---|---|
| gptbot | blocked |
| claudebot | blocked |
| google-extended | blocked |
| ccbot | blocked |
| applebot-extended | blocked |
| bytespider | blocked |
| anthropic-ai | blocked |
8 sitemaps are declared in robots.txt, which gives crawlers a direct list of URLs.
Every named AI crawler is blocked (gptbot, claudebot, google-extended, ccbot, applebot-extended, bytespider, anthropic-ai). This domain has opted out of AI training and AI answer surfaces wholesale.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
No JSON-LD or microdata was found on the homepage.
What does yourstory.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 5 third-party hosts (cdn.jsdelivr.net, googletagmanager.com, images.the-captable.com, securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, tpc.googlesyndication.com). 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 yourstory.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://yourstory.com/, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can yourstory.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://yourstory.com/sitemap_index.xml listing 1,008 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-10-04.
A deliberately invalid URL returns HTTP 200 rather than 404. That is a soft 404: every mistyped or stale link becomes an indexable page, which inflates the site with duplicates.
What tracking does yourstory.com run?
2 tracking scripts detected: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager.
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 yourstory.com look when shared?
4 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:image.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
88 images on the homepage, 81 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.
The page pulls 4 external stylesheets and 30 external scripts, with 29 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Cloudflare edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is yourstory.com accessible and current?
The page uses 3 landmark elements and 36 ARIA attributes.
There are 5 form inputs but only 2 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 yourstory.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 287 internal and 42 external links across 8 outside hosts.
Visible text makes up 14.3% of the HTML.
The heading outline skips 11 levels, which breaks the document structure screen readers navigate by.
How is yourstory.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: max-age=60, s-maxage=300, stale-while-revalidate=31535700.
HTTP/3 is advertised via alt-svc, so modern browsers will upgrade to QUIC after the first visit.
A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.
No favicon is declared in the markup.
The TLS certificate also covers 1 subdomain: techsparks.yourstory.com.
- techsparks.yourstory.com
Frequently asked questions
Does yourstory.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 2 of 6. The ones not present are: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does yourstory.com allow AI crawlers?
No — robots.txt blocks gptbot, claudebot, google-extended, ccbot, applebot-extended, bytespider, anthropic-ai.
What is yourstory.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Next.js, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare. 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 yourstory.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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