ixl.com — domain analysis
AdvantageBizMarketing Editorial
October 5, 2026
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ixl.com describes itself as "IXL is the world". It was registered in 1995, served from Toronto, Canada. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 4 of 6 common security headers, 1 tracking script.
Does ixl.com publish the usual trust pages?
Found: contact. Not found at the usual addresses:
about, privacy, terms.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does ixl.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 74 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 45% of them (median 486ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 84% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 91% of them |
Related domains in this index
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- blabtime.com
- brandcolumn.com
- brandhivey.com
- dmfollow.com
- dugun.com
- dyson.com
- forcegiant.com
- goallion.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:
- businessofminds.com
- dizi.com
- estuda.com
- mebuk.com
- michaelkors.com
- sarkarinetwork.com
- themrpopular.com
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was ixl.com registered?
ixl.com was registered on 27 February 1995, which makes it about 31 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 101domain GRS Limited.
Registration runs until 28 February 2027.
The domain carries 1 registry lock, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 27 February 1995 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 28 February 2027 |
| Registrar | 101domain GRS Limited |
| Registry status | client transfer prohibited |
Where is ixl.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 ixl.com running on?
ixl.com exposes 2 identifiable technologies: Google Analytics, Cloudflare.
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), so this homepage is not cookie-free.
- Google Analytics
- Cloudflare
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 558ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 252KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | cloudflare |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 257,622 bytes |
| Declared language | en-US |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 63 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
A meta description of 16 characters is present.
All 133 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish (63 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | IXL is the world (16 chars) |
| H1 | IXL is personalized learning (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | not set |
| Open Graph title | IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish |
| Headings / images | 32 H2s, 133 images (0 without alt text) |
Is ixl.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Google Trust Services and is
valid until 2026-11-10, which is 36 days from the date of this check. It covers
2 hostnames.
- ixl.com
- *.ixl.com
The certificate has 36 days left to run.
It covers 2 hostnames, so it was issued for this site specifically.
Which security headers does it set?
4 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options). Absent: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=31536000 |
| Content Security Policy | yes | default-src 'self' data: blob:; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob: https://*.abcya.com/ https:/ |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for ixl.com?
| IP addresses | 104.18.191.254, 104.16.224.31, 104.16.240.30, 104.18.128.25, 104.18.175.254 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 104.18.191.254, 104.16.224.31 |
| Name servers | isla.ns.cloudflare.com, tom.ns.cloudflare.com |
| Mail (MX) | mxa.global.inbound.cf-emailsecurity.net (pri 1), mxb.global.inbound.cf-emailsecurity.net (pri 5) |
| SPF | v=spf1 redirect=ixl.com.hosted.spf-report.com |
| TXT records | 20 |
ixl.com resolves to 5 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 2 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to 104.18.191.254, 104.16.224.31, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for ixl.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.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
Can ixl.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.
CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 6 named authorities (issue amazon.com, issue comodoca.com, issue digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes, issue 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 ixl.com publish?
A security.txt file is published, giving security researchers a documented way to report vulnerabilities. Very few sites bother.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 1,284 bytes and names
4 user-agent groups.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.ixl.com/sitemap_index.xml
AI crawler policy
| Crawler | Policy |
|---|---|
| gptbot | blocked |
| ccbot | blocked |
| applebot-extended | blocked |
1 sitemap is declared in robots.txt, which gives crawlers a direct list of URLs.
Every named AI crawler is blocked (gptbot, ccbot, applebot-extended). 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 ixl.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 2 third-party hosts (google-analytics.com, googletagmanager.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
4 cookies are set before any interaction (TRID, sessionUserInfo, JSESSIONID, __cf_bm).
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRID | yes | yes | none/unset |
| sessionUserInfo | yes | yes | none/unset |
| JSESSIONID | yes | yes | none/unset |
| __cf_bm | yes | yes | none |
Does ixl.com settle on one address?
Both ixl.com and www.ixl.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 ixl.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.ixl.com/sitemap_index.xml listing 14 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-09-30.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does ixl.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 ixl.com look when shared?
4 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: twitter:card.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
133 images on the homepage, 0 of them lazy-loaded (0%).
Modern image formats are in use (30 WebP/AVIF references).
The page pulls 15 external stylesheets and 68 external scripts, with 44 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Cloudflare edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is ixl.com accessible and current?
The page uses 8 landmark elements and 67 ARIA attributes.
There are 9 form inputs but only 6 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
Can search engines index ixl.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.
The homepage carries 219 internal and 19 external links across 14 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 0% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is ixl.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: no-cache, no-transform.
Frequently asked questions
Does ixl.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 4 of 6. The ones not present are: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does ixl.com allow AI crawlers?
No — robots.txt blocks gptbot, ccbot, applebot-extended.
What is ixl.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Google Analytics, 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 ixl.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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