discover.com — domain analysis
discover.com describes itself as "Discover offers online banking, reward credit cards, home equity loans, and personal loans to help meet your financial needs.". It was registered in 1993, served from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 4 of 6 common security headers.
What is discover.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:
- discover ×34
- credit ×22
- card ×21
- loans ×10
- help ×10
- opens ×8
- adobecqms ×8
- personal ×7
- pulsenetwork ×7
- cards ×6
Does discover.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 discover.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 73 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 423ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 81% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 97% 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.
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was discover.com registered?
discover.com was registered on 15 November 1993, 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 expires in 39 days (14 November 2026), which is close enough that a missed renewal would take the site offline.
The domain carries 4 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 15 November 1993 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 14 November 2026 |
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. |
| Registry status | client transfer prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is discover.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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 discover.com running on?
No platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup of discover.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 148ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 120KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | Apache |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 123,215 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 49 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
A meta description of 125 characters is present.
No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.
5 of 28 images carry no alt attribute, which leaves them unreadable to screen readers and uninterpretable to image search.
| Title | Discover – Personal Banking, Credit Cards & Loans (49 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Discover offers online banking, reward credit cards, home equity loans, and personal loans to help meet your financial needs. (125 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (0 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.discover.com/ |
| Open Graph title | not set |
| Headings / images | 10 H2s, 28 images (5 without alt text) |
Is discover.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is
valid until 2027-01-27, which is 114 days from the date of this check. It covers
24 hostnames.
- www.discover.com
- applynow.discover.com
- archertprm.discover.com
- assets.discover.com
- cards.discover.com
- crl.discoverfinancial.com
- custserv.securedocupload.discover.com
- dcf.src.discover.com
- designsystem.discover.com
- discover.com
- discovercard.com
- freshchat.discover.com
The certificate has 114 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?
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 https: data: blob: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for discover.com?
| IP addresses | 23.197.141.182 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | a23-197-141-182.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com |
| Name servers | a8-66.akam.net, a1-23.akam.net, a6-65.akam.net, a4-64.akam.net, a3-64.akam.net, a5-67.akam.net |
| Mail (MX) | mx0b-001b4103.pphosted.com (pri 10), mx0a-001b4103.pphosted.com (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email ~all |
| TXT records | 19 |
discover.com resolves to a single address, so there is no DNS-level redundancy.
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 a23-197-141-182.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for discover.com?
DNS is operated by Akamai 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.
What else is worth noting about discover.com?
3 of 3 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 discover.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to quarantine, so mail failing authentication is sent to spam rather than the inbox.
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 does robots.txt allow?
No robots.txt was served. Crawlers treat a missing file as permission to crawl
everything, so this is an open crawl policy by default rather than a blocked one.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- Organization
- Brand
- ContactPoint
- WebSite
- SearchAction
- ImageObject
The homepage publishes 6 structured data types: Organization, Brand, ContactPoint, WebSite, SearchAction, ImageObject.
What does discover.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 5 third-party hosts (assets.adobedtm.com, cdn.branch.io, cdnssl.clicktale.net, googletagmanager.com, s.go-mpulse.net). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
2 cookies are set before any interaction (x-orig, bm_sz).
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| x-orig | yes | no | none/unset |
| bm_sz | yes | no | none |
Does discover.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both discover.com and www.discover.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 discover.com be crawled?
No readable sitemap was found, so crawlers have to discover every page by following links.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does discover.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of discover.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does discover.com look when shared?
No Open Graph or Twitter Card tags are present. Links shared to social platforms will fall back to whatever the platform can scrape, usually just a bare URL.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
28 images on the homepage, 0 of them lazy-loaded (0%).
Modern image formats are in use (8 WebP/AVIF references).
No srcset attributes are used, so every device is served the same image size regardless of screen.
The page pulls 6 external stylesheets and 12 external scripts, with 4 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Akamai edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is discover.com accessible and current?
The page uses 4 landmark elements and 52 ARIA attributes.
There are 14 form inputs but only 5 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 discover.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 118 internal and 23 external links across 13 outside hosts.
Visible text makes up 6.7% of the HTML.
How is discover.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache.
The TLS certificate also covers 9 subdomains: www.discover.com, applynow.discover.com, archertprm.discover.com, assets.discover.com, cards.discover.com, custserv.securedocupload.discover.com, dcf.src.discover.com, designsystem.discover.com.
- www.discover.com
- applynow.discover.com
- archertprm.discover.com
- assets.discover.com
- cards.discover.com
- custserv.securedocupload.discover.com
- dcf.src.discover.com
- designsystem.discover.com
- freshchat.discover.com
Frequently asked questions
Does discover.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 4 of 6. The ones not present are: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does discover.com allow AI crawlers?
No robots.txt is served, so nothing is disallowed and AI crawlers are free to read the site.
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 discover.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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