audible.com — domain analysis
audible.com describes itself as "Testen Sie Audible 30 Tage kostenlos. Entdecken Sie Bestseller-Hörbücher, kostenlose Podcasts und exklusive Audible Originals. Hören Sie offline.". It was registered in 1996, served from Ashburn, United States. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 3 of 6 common security headers.
What is audible.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:
- audible ×20
- cher ×14
- monat ×12
- alle ×11
- andere ×11
- titel ×10
- einem ×8
- dein ×8
- kannst ×8
- uuml ×7
Does audible.com publish the usual trust pages?
Found: about. Not found at the usual addresses:
contact, privacy, terms.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does audible.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 11 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 18% of them (median 814ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 40% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 80% of them |
Related domains in this index
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was audible.com registered?
audible.com was registered on 5 December 1996, which makes it about 29 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 runs until 4 December 2026.
The domain carries 4 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 5 December 1996 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 4 December 2026 |
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. |
| Registry status | client transfer prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is audible.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Ashburn, United States.
The network is operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. (us-east-1) (AS14618 Amazon.com, 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 audible.com running on?
No platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup of audible.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 1187ms to first byte this response is slow for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 431KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | Server |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 441,474 bytes |
| Declared language | de-DE |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 58 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
A meta description of 145 characters is present.
No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.
11 of 67 images carry no alt attribute, which leaves them unreadable to screen readers and uninterpretable to image search.
| Title | Audible | Höre Hörbücher, Hörspiele und Podcasts jederzeit (58 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Testen Sie Audible 30 Tage kostenlos. Entdecken Sie Bestseller-Hörbücher, kostenlose Podcasts und exklusive Audible Originals. Hören Sie offline. (145 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (0 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.audible.de |
| Open Graph title | not set |
| Headings / images | 6 H2s, 67 images (11 without alt text) |
Is audible.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Amazon and is
valid until 2027-02-15, which is 134 days from the date of this check. It covers
5 hostnames.
- www.audible.com
- audible.com
- ios.audible.com
- apx-security-us.audible.com
- origin-www.audible.com
The certificate has 134 days left to run.
Which security headers does it set?
3 of 6 are set (HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, Permissions-Policy). Absent: Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy.
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.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=47474747; includeSubDomains; preload |
| Content Security Policy | no | — |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | no | — |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | yes | ch-dpr=(self "https://m.media-amazon.com" "https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com"), ch-viewport-width=(self "https://m |
How is DNS configured for audible.com?
| IP addresses | 44.215.135.243, 44.215.128.228, 44.215.140.73 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | ec2-44-215-135-243.compute-1.amazonaws.com, ec2-44-215-128-228.compute-1.amazonaws.com |
| Name servers | ns-524.awsdns-01.net, ns-1483.awsdns-57.org, ns-1799.awsdns-32.co.uk, ns-345.awsdns-43.com |
| Mail (MX) | amazon-smtp.amazon.com (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:amazon.com include:amazonses.com -all |
| TXT records | 24 |
audible.com resolves to 3 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 ec2-44-215-135-243.compute-1.amazonaws.com, ec2-44-215-128-228.compute-1.amazonaws.com, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for audible.com?
DNS is operated by Amazon Route 53 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 audible.com?
11 of 11 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.
1 email address appears in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find it.
Can audible.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?
robots.txt is 21,771 bytes and names
4 user-agent groups.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.audible.com/sitemaps/productDetail_sitemap_index.xml
- https://www.audible.com/sitemaps/author_sitemap_index.xml
- https://www.audible.com/sitemaps/narrator_sitemap_index.xml
- https://www.audible.com/sitemaps/series_sitemap_index.xml
- https://www.audible.com/sitemaps/recentlyLaunchedProductDetail_sitemap_index.xml
- https://www.audible.com/sitemaps/worldtree-cat-pages.xml
- https://help.audible.com/s/sitemap.xml
- https://www.audible.com/sitemaps/topic_sitemap_index.xml
AI crawler policy
robots.txt names no AI crawlers specifically, so they fall under whatever rule
applies to User-agent: *.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- Organization
- SearchAction
- PostalAddress
- ContactPoint
- WebSite
The homepage publishes 5 structured data types: Organization, SearchAction, PostalAddress, ContactPoint, WebSite.
What does audible.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 16 third-party hosts (audible.ca, audible.co.jp, audible.co.uk, audible.com.au, audible.com.br, audible.de). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
8 cookies are set before any interaction (session-id, session-id-time, sst-acbde, i18n-prefs, lc-acbde). 2 lack the Secure flag.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| session-id | yes | no | none/unset |
| session-id-time | yes | no | none/unset |
| sst-acbde | yes | yes | lax |
| i18n-prefs | no | no | none/unset |
| lc-acbde | no | no | none/unset |
| ubid-acbde | yes | no | none/unset |
| lopAdbl | yes | no | none/unset |
| isFirstVisitAdbl | yes | no | none/unset |
Does audible.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.audible.de/?ref=Adbl_ip_rdr_from_US&source_code=ADEFAHP082615903W&ipRedirectFrom=US&ipRedirectOriginalURL=, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can audible.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.audible.com/sitemaps/productDetail_sitemap_index.xml listing 212 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-09-28.
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 audible.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of audible.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does audible.com look when shared?
3 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:title, og:description.
The page declares 37 hreflang alternates (en-ie, en-ca, en-us, en-in, ar-ae, nl-be, de-at, x-default, nl-nl, en-nc, en-au, es-us), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
67 images on the homepage, 0 of them lazy-loaded (0%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
The page pulls 7 external stylesheets and 11 external scripts, with 10 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Amazon CloudFront and edge cache edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is audible.com accessible and current?
The page uses 1 landmark element and 39 ARIA attributes.
There are 3 form inputs but only 0 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
The visible copyright notice reads 1997, 29 years behind the current year, which usually indicates the site is not actively maintained.
Can search engines index audible.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.audible.de), which tells search engines the authoritative copy lives elsewhere.
The homepage carries 172 internal and 8 external links across 3 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 1.8% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is audible.com delivered?
No Cache-Control header is sent for the HTML, so caching behaviour is left to browser defaults.
The TLS certificate also covers 4 subdomains: www.audible.com, ios.audible.com, apx-security-us.audible.com, origin-www.audible.com.
- www.audible.com
- ios.audible.com
- apx-security-us.audible.com
- origin-www.audible.com
Frequently asked questions
Does audible.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 3 of 6. The ones not present are: Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy.
Does audible.com allow AI crawlers?
robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.
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 audible.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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