cbsnews.com — domain analysis

200HTTP status

113msResponse time

1,512Words on the homepage

1/6Security headers set

What is cbsnews.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:

• news ×13
• trump ×8
• president ×7
• energy ×7
• flydubai ×5
• prices ×5
• iran ×5
• said ×5
• says ×5
• money ×5

Does cbsnews.com publish the usual trust pages?

Found: contact, privacy. Not found at the usual addresses:
about, terms.

These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.

How does cbsnews.com compare with other domains analysed here?

Measured against the 13 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

Other analysed domains served from the same country:

• addtra.com
• benzynews.com
• cgxuanwo.com
• dakip.com
• deeper.com

When was cbsnews.com registered?

cbsnews.com was registered on 4 October 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 MarkMonitor Inc..

Registration runs until 3 October 2027.

The domain carries 6 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.

Where is cbsnews.com hosted?

The first address resolves to infrastructure in Montreal, Canada.

The network is operated by Fastly, Inc. (AS54113 Fastly, 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 cbsnews.com running on?

No platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup of cbsnews.com. That usually means hand-written HTML, an uncommon stack, or a page assembled entirely at the edge.

No recognisable platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup.

How does the homepage respond?

The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.

At 113ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.

The HTML alone is 677KB 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.

What does the homepage say about itself?

The title is 64 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.

A meta description of 152 characters is present.

All 41 images on the homepage have alt attributes.

Is cbsnews.com served over a valid certificate?

The HTTPS certificate is issued by Let's Encrypt and is
valid until 2026-11-26, which is 52 days from the date of this check. It covers
1 hostname.

• cbsnews.com

The certificate has 52 days left to run.

It covers 1 hostname, so it was issued for this site specifically.

Let's Encrypt certificates are free and run on 90-day terms, so this site is almost certainly renewing automatically.

Which security headers does it set?

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

cbsnews.com resolves to 7 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.

Mail is handled by 4 exchangers.

An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.

Reverse DNS resolves to 151.101.193.188, 151.101.1.188, which usually names the hosting provider.

Who runs DNS and mail for cbsnews.com?

DNS is operated by Cloudflare 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 cbsnews.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.

Can cbsnews.com be spoofed in email?

DMARC is published with p=none, which monitors but does not act. Forged mail is still delivered; the owner just gets reports about it.

CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 6 named authorities (issue usertrust.com, issue digicert.com, issue amazon.com, issuewild letsencrypt.org), 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 cbsnews.com publish?

An ads.txt file is published with 846 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 950 bytes and names
5 user-agent groups.

It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.

Sitemaps declared:

• https://www.cbsnews.com/xml-sitemap/index.xml

AI crawler policy

1 sitemap is declared in robots.txt, which gives crawlers a direct list of URLs.

Every named AI crawler is blocked (gptbot). This domain has opted out of AI training and AI answer surfaces wholesale.

What structured data does the homepage publish?

• NewsMediaOrganization
• ImageObject
• ContactPoint
• PostalAddress
• WebSite
• SearchAction
• BreadcrumbList
• ListItem
• WebPage
• CollectionPage

The homepage publishes 10 structured data types: NewsMediaOrganization, ImageObject, ContactPoint, PostalAddress, WebSite, SearchAction, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebPage, CollectionPage.

What does cbsnews.com load from third parties?

The homepage pulls resources from 8 third-party hosts (assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com, assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com, assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com, cdn.privacy.paramount.com, disco.headliner.link, global.ketchcdn.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.

2 cookies are set before any interaction (fly_device, fly_geo). 2 lack the Secure flag.

The page links or refers to X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.

Does cbsnews.com settle on one address?

Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.

Both cbsnews.com and www.cbsnews.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 cbsnews.com be crawled?

A sitemap index is served at https://www.cbsnews.com/xml-sitemap/index.xml listing 568 entries.

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

What tracking does cbsnews.com run?

No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of cbsnews.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.

How does cbsnews.com look when shared?

All five social preview tags are present, so links shared to social platforms and chat apps will render with a title, description and image.

How are images, fonts and scripts handled?

41 images on the homepage, 18 of them lazy-loaded (44%).

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

The page pulls 1 external stylesheet and 2 external scripts, with 2 carrying defer or async.

Is cbsnews.com accessible and current?

The page uses 7 landmark elements and 37 ARIA attributes.

The viewport tag disables pinch-zoom. That fails WCAG 1.4.4 and is a genuine problem for anyone who needs to enlarge text.

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

Can search engines index cbsnews.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 156 internal and 24 external links across 14 outside hosts.

Visible text is only 1.6% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.

The heading outline skips 4 levels, which breaks the document structure screen readers navigate by.

How is cbsnews.com delivered?

The HTML is served with Cache-Control: max-age=90, public.

A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.

Frequently asked questions

Does cbsnews.com set the usual HTTP security headers?

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

Does cbsnews.com allow AI crawlers?

No — robots.txt blocks gptbot.

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 cbsnews.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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