bbcswahili.com — domain analysis
bbcswahili.com describes itself as "Hii ni tovuti ya idhaa ya Kiswahili ya BBC ambayo hukuletea habari na makala kutoka Afrika na kote duniani kwa lugha ya Kiswahili. Tembelea…
bbcswahili.com describes itself as "Hii ni tovuti ya idhaa ya Kiswahili ya BBC ambayo hukuletea habari na makala kutoka Afrika na kote duniani kwa lugha ya Kiswahili. Tembelea tovuti hii pia kusikiliza vipindi vya…". It is built on Next.js, registered in 2000, served from Marseille, France. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 3 of 6 common security headers.
What is bbcswahili.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:
- septemba ×19
- muda ×17
- oktoba ×16
- video ×15
- katika ×9
- zaidi ×9
- nini ×9
- watu ×7
- afrika ×7
- kuhusu ×6
Does bbcswahili.com publish the usual trust pages?
None of about, contact, privacy or terms could be found at their usual addresses.
That is common for small or single-purpose sites, and it is also what a disposable
site looks like, so it is worth noting rather than concluding from.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does bbcswahili.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 12 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 67% of them (median 742ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 56% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 67% of them |
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- ajio.com
When was bbcswahili.com registered?
bbcswahili.com was registered on 24 January 2000, which makes it about 26 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 Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE.
Registration runs until 24 January 2027.
The domain carries 3 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 24 January 2000 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 24 January 2027 |
| Registrar | Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited |
Where is bbcswahili.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Marseille, France.
The network is operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AS20940 Akamai International B.V.).
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 bbcswahili.com running on?
bbcswahili.com exposes 1 identifiable technology: Next.js.
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.
- Next.js
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 266ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 417KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | BBC-GTM |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 426,837 bytes |
| Declared language | sw |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 26 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
The meta description is 184 characters and will be cut short in most result layouts.
All 57 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Swahili – BBC News Swahili (26 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Hii ni tovuti ya idhaa ya Kiswahili ya BBC ambayo hukuletea habari na makala kutoka Afrika na kote duniani kwa lugha ya Kiswahili. Tembelea tovuti hii pia kusikiliza vipindi vya redio. (184 chars) |
| H1 | BBC News, Swahili – Habari (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.bbc.com/swahili |
| Open Graph title | Swahili – BBC News Swahili |
| Headings / images | 12 H2s, 57 images (0 without alt text) |
Is bbcswahili.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by GlobalSign nv-sa and is
valid until 2026-12-26, which is 82 days from the date of this check. It covers
84 hostnames.
- bbcmundo.com
- bbcafaanoromoo.com
- bbcafrique.com
- bbcamharic.com
- bbcarabic.com
- bbcasiapacific.com
- bbcazeri.com
- bbcbengali.com
- bbcbrasil.com
- bbcburmese.com
- bbcgahuza.com
- bbcgujarati.com
The certificate has 82 days left to run.
It covers 84 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?
3 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options). Absent: X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=31536000; preload |
| Content Security Policy | yes | default-src 'self' *.bbc.co.uk *.bbc.com *.bbci.co.uk *.bbci.com https://*.googlesyndication.com;child-src 'self';conn |
| X-Content-Type-Options | no | — |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | DENY |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for bbcswahili.com?
| IP addresses | 23.203.61.150, 23.203.61.160 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | a23-203-61-150.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, a23-203-61-160.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com |
| Name servers | ns2.bbcdns.net.uk, ns2.bbcdns.net, ns3.bbcdns.net, dns2.p09.nsone.net, ns3.bbcdns.net.uk, dns3.p09.nsone.net, dns4.p09.nsone.net, dns1.p09.nsone.net |
| Mail (MX) | (pri 1) |
| SPF | v=spf1 -all |
| TXT records | 2 |
bbcswahili.com resolves to 2 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 1 exchanger.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to a23-203-61-150.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, a23-203-61-160.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for bbcswahili.com?
DNS is operated by NS1 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 bbcswahili.com?
30 of 30 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 bbcswahili.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 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?
- CollectionPage
- NewsMediaOrganization
- ImageObject
- WebPage
- Language
- ItemList
- ListItem
The homepage publishes 7 structured data types: CollectionPage, NewsMediaOrganization, ImageObject, WebPage, Language, ItemList, ListItem.
What does bbcswahili.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 7 third-party hosts (a1.api.bbc.co.uk, bbc.com, gn-web-assets.api.bbc.com, ichef.bbci.co.uk, static.bbci.co.uk, static.chartbeat.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, Facebook, Instagram.
Does bbcswahili.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://www.bbc.com/swahili, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can bbcswahili.com be crawled?
A sitemap is served at https://bbcswahili.com/sitemap.xml listing 100 entries.
The most recent lastmod date in it is 2014-09-24, around 4393 days ago, which suggests the site has not published anything in a while.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does bbcswahili.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of bbcswahili.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does bbcswahili.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.
The page declares 1 hreflang alternate (sw), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
57 images on the homepage, 52 of them lazy-loaded (91%).
Modern image formats are in use (518 WebP/AVIF references).
The page pulls 4 external stylesheets and 30 external scripts, with 29 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Varnish/Fastly edge and edge cache edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is bbcswahili.com accessible and current?
The page uses 4 landmark elements and 87 ARIA attributes.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index bbcswahili.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
The canonical points to a different host (https://www.bbc.com/swahili), which tells search engines the authoritative copy lives elsewhere.
The homepage carries 20 internal and 62 external links across 9 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 2.3% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is bbcswahili.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: private, stale-if-error=300, stale-while-revalidate=120, max-age=0, 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 bbcswahili.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 3 of 6. The ones not present are: X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does bbcswahili.com allow AI crawlers?
No robots.txt is served, so nothing is disallowed and AI crawlers are free to read the site.
What is bbcswahili.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Next.js. 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 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 bbcswahili.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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Every figure on this page is compiled from the public sources cited above and given as a low–typical–high range rather than a single false-precise number. Where costs vary by location we scale the national typical using published state price levels. We recheck figures on a set schedule and stamp each report with the date last verified. We are independent and are never paid to change a number — see how we price things.
