instagram.com
instagram.com describes itself as "Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.". It was registered in 2004, served from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 5 of 6 common security headers.
Does instagram.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 instagram.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 79 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 52% of them (median 657ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 97% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 90% of them |
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When was instagram.com registered?
instagram.com was registered on 4 June 2004, which makes it about 22 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 RegistrarSafe, LLC.
Registration runs until 4 June 2034.
The domain carries 6 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 4 June 2004 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 4 June 2034 |
| Registrar | RegistrarSafe, LLC |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is instagram.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The network is operated by Facebook, Inc. (AS32934 Facebook, 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 instagram.com running on?
No platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup of instagram.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 649ms to first byte this response is slow for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 480KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | not disclosed |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 491,689 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is only 9 characters, which is short enough that it probably is not describing the page so much as naming it.
A meta description of 94 characters is present.
No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.
2 of 3 images carry no alt attribute, which leaves them unreadable to screen readers and uninterpretable to image search.
| Title | Instagram (9 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. (94 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (0 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.instagram.com/ |
| Open Graph title | |
| Headings / images | 0 H2s, 3 images (2 without alt text) |
Is instagram.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is valid until 2026-10-11, which is 7 days from the date of this check. It covers 6 hostnames.
- *.instagram.com
- *.cdninstagram.com
- *.igsonar.com
- cdninstagram.com
- igsonar.com
- instagram.com
The certificate expires in 7 days. If renewal is not automated this is close enough to be worth checking today.
Which security headers does it set?
5 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Permissions-Policy). Absent: Referrer-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=31536000; preload; includeSubDomains |
| Content Security Policy | yes | default-src *.facebook.com *.fbcdn.net *.instagram.com blob:;script-src *.instagram.com static.cdninstagram.com z-p42-st |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | DENY |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | yes | accelerometer=(self), attribution-reporting=(), autoplay=(), bluetooth=(), camera=(self), ch-device-memory=(), ch-downli |
How is DNS configured for instagram.com?
| IP addresses | 157.240.0.174, 2a03:2880:f277:1e8:face:b00c::4420 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | instagram-p42-shv-02-fra3.fbcdn.net, instagram-p426-shv-02-fra3.fbcdn.net |
| Name servers | a.ns.instagram.com, d.ns.instagram.com, c.ns.instagram.com, b.ns.instagram.com |
| Mail (MX) | mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com (pri 20), mxa-00082601.gslb.pphosted.com (pri 10), mxb-00082601.gslb.pphosted.com (pri 10), mx0b-00082601.pphosted.com (pri 20) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:facebookmail.com include:_spf.fb.com -all |
| TXT records | 11 |
instagram.com resolves to 2 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 instagram-p42-shv-02-fra3.fbcdn.net, instagram-p426-shv-02-fra3.fbcdn.net, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for instagram.com?
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 instagram.com?
12 of 12 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 instagram.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 1 named authority (issue digicert.com; account=271b0beda0771d006aa3a6c11b05187d456d6c239b46cb5241196095b09c92af), 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 instagram.com publish?
An ads.txt file is published with 6 entries, which means the site sells programmatic advertising and has declared who may resell its inventory.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 6,184 bytes and names 36 user-agent groups. It disallows all crawlers from the site root.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.instagram.com/sitemap/ig_places_sitemap.xml.gz
- https://www.instagram.com/sitemap/ig_seo_profile_sitemap.xml.gz
- https://www.instagram.com/sitemap/ig_seo_profile_sitemap_non_media_eligible.xml.gz
- https://www.instagram.com/sitemap/dim_ig_logged_out_web_keyword_ent.xml.gz
AI crawler policy
| Crawler | Policy |
|---|---|
| gptbot | blocked |
| claudebot | blocked |
| perplexitybot | blocked |
| google-extended | blocked |
| applebot-extended | blocked |
robots.txt disallows all general crawlers from the site root, which is an explicit decision to stay out of search results.
4 sitemaps are declared in robots.txt, which gives crawlers a direct list of URLs.
Every named AI crawler is blocked (gptbot, claudebot, perplexitybot, google-extended, 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 instagram.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 1 third-party host (static.cdninstagram.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
2 cookies are set before any interaction (csrftoken, mid).
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| csrftoken | yes | no | none/unset |
| mid | yes | yes | none/unset |
Does instagram.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both instagram.com and www.instagram.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 instagram.com be crawled?
No readable sitemap was found, so crawlers have to discover every page by following links.
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 instagram.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of instagram.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does instagram.com look when shared?
2 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:description, og:type, twitter:card.
The page declares 76 hreflang alternates (x-default, en, fr, it, de, es, zh-cn, zh-tw, ja, ko, pt, pt-br), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
3 images on the homepage, 0 of them lazy-loaded (0%).
Modern image formats are in use (26 WebP/AVIF references).
No srcset attributes are used, so every device is served the same image size regardless of screen.
The page pulls 1 external stylesheet and 57 external scripts, with 13 carrying defer or async.
Is instagram.com accessible and current?
The page uses 1 landmark element and 11 ARIA attributes.
There are 4 form inputs but only 3 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 instagram.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 12 internal and 7 external links across 6 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 0.2% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is instagram.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate.
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.
Frequently asked questions
Does instagram.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 5 of 6. The ones not present are: Referrer-Policy.
Does instagram.com allow AI crawlers?
No — robots.txt blocks gptbot, claudebot, perplexitybot, google-extended, applebot-extended.
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 instagram.com and want this page removed.
Email hello@quikconsolecom.net from an address at the domain and the report will be taken down. It only ever shows what the domain already serves publicly.
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