ixl.com

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After conducting a thorough safety and legitimacy analysis, ixl.com receives a trust score of 79/100, which places it in the "Likely Safe" category. This score is calculated by evaluating multiple factors including SSL certificate validity, domain registration history, email authentication protocols, security header configuration, and blacklist status across major threat intelligence databases. The analysis identified several positive trust signals: a valid HTTPS connection protecting data in transit, HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) enforcement preventing protocol downgrade attacks, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) email authentication preventing email spoofing, DMARC email authentication with a reject policy — the strongest available setting, DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) providing cryptographic email verification, and DNSSEC providing authenticated DNS responses. Areas of concern include: missing Referrer-Policy, potentially leaking URL information to third parties and the domain's WHOIS information is hidden behind a privacy service, making it harder to verify the owner's identity. While these issues don't necessarily indicate malicious intent, they represent areas where the website's security posture could be improved. We checked ixl.com against 8 major blacklist databases including Google Safe Browsing, Phishtank, Urlhaus, Openphish, Dnsfilter, Spamhaus Dbl, Surbl, and Virustotal. The domain passed all 8 checks with a clean status, meaning it has not been flagged for phishing, malware distribution, spam, or other malicious activities by any of the tested threat intelligence providers.

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Our technology detection engine scanned ixl.com and identified 6 distinct technologies across 6 categories. This analysis is performed by examining HTTP response headers, HTML source code patterns, JavaScript library fingerprints, CSS framework signatures, and DNS records. UI Library: React — handles the user interface rendering and component management for ixl.com. Build Tool: Vite — bundles and optimizes the JavaScript and CSS assets for ixl.com. Analytics: Google Analytics 4 — tracks visitor behavior and provides traffic insights for ixl.com. Tag Manager: Google Tag Manager — manages marketing and analytics tags without code changes for ixl.com. Security: reCAPTCHA v3 — provides security features like bot detection and CAPTCHA for ixl.com. JavaScript Library: Lodash — provides utility functions and DOM manipulation for ixl.com. We also extracted the following tracking identifiers: Google Tag Manager container GTM-MQKK9F. These IDs can be used to identify other websites operated by the same organization.

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ixl.com delivers its homepage in 22971ms (server response time), which is considered slow by industry standards. The total page weight is 257 KB, and we detected 476 resource requests loading assets from 16 third-party domains. A high number of third-party domains can significantly impact page load time due to additional DNS lookups and TLS handshakes required for each domain. The website uses Gzip compression for text-based assets, achieving an estimated 60.0% reduction in transfer size. This reduces bandwidth usage and improves page load times, especially for visitors on slower connections. Asset minification status: 0 out of 14 CSS files and 1 out of 74 JavaScript files are minified. Minifying the remaining 87 unminified file(s) could further reduce page weight by 10-30% for those assets. Minification is a best practice that reduces download sizes without affecting functionality. The site is served through a Content Delivery Network (CDN), which caches static assets at edge servers around the world. This means visitors from different geographic regions receive content from the nearest edge server, significantly reducing latency. CDN usage is particularly important for websites with a global audience, as it can reduce page load times by 40-60% for distant visitors. From an environmental perspective, each page view of ixl.com produces approximately 0.13g of CO₂, earning a carbon rating of A. This places the website among the cleanest on the web, demonstrating efficient use of server resources and optimized content delivery. For reference, the average web page produces about 0.5g of CO₂ per page view. The page weight of 257 KB is the primary factor in this calculation. Core Web Vitals data from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is not available for ixl.com. This typically means the site doesn't have enough real-world Chrome user traffic to generate statistically significant field data, or the domain is not included in the CrUX dataset. Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) are important Google ranking factors that measure real user experience.

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ixl.com resolves to the IPv4 address 104.16.224.31, but does not support IPv6. IPv6 adoption is increasingly important as IPv4 address space becomes exhausted, and some ISPs and regions are transitioning to IPv6-only connectivity. The domain has 5 A record(s) configured. The domain name system is managed by 2 name servers: isla.ns.cloudflare.com and tom.ns.cloudflare.com. Having 2 name servers provides good redundancy — if one fails, the others can continue serving DNS queries. The choice of name servers often indicates the DNS hosting provider or CDN service being used. Email for ixl.com is handled by cf-emailsecurity.net with 2 MX records configured: mxa.global.inbound.cf-emailsecurity.net and mxb.global.inbound.cf-emailsecurity.net. Multiple MX records provide failover redundancy — if the primary mail server is unavailable, email will be routed to the next available server. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is configured, which specifies which mail servers are authorized to send email on behalf of this domain. This helps prevent email spoofing and improves email deliverability. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) is configured with a reject policy — the strongest setting, instructing receiving servers to reject unauthorized emails entirely. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is configured, adding a cryptographic signature to outgoing emails that receiving servers can verify to confirm the email hasn't been tampered with in transit. DNSSEC is enabled for ixl.com, providing an additional layer of security by cryptographically signing DNS records. This prevents DNS cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks that could redirect visitors to malicious websites. Our subdomain enumeration scan discovered 25 active subdomains for ixl.com: admin.ixl.com, api.ixl.com, app.ixl.com, apps.ixl.com, blog.ixl.com, cdn.ixl.com, community.ixl.com, and dev.ixl.com. Plus 17 additional subdomains. Active subdomains can reveal the organization's infrastructure, including development environments, API endpoints, and third-party service integrations.

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The homepage of ixl.com contains 1,199 words of visible text content. This is a substantial amount of content that provides good opportunities for search engine indexing. The page is structured with 37 H2 headings, 58 H3 headings, 7 H4 headings. The page includes 133 images. 33 images (25%) are missing alt text attributes, which is a significant concern for both accessibility and SEO. Screen readers rely on alt text to describe images to visually impaired users, and search engines use alt text to understand image content. Only 75% of images have proper alt text — we recommend adding descriptive alt attributes to all images. The link structure consists of 218 internal links pointing to other pages on the same domain and 34 external links pointing to third-party websites. The high number of internal links suggests a well-interconnected site structure, which helps search engines discover and crawl all pages efficiently. There are 74 external JavaScript files, 14 CSS stylesheets, and 0 iframes on the page. Notable missing features: XML Sitemap, robots.txt, and Schema.org structured data. Adding these could improve search engine discoverability and rich result eligibility. We detected the following payment methods accepted on ixl.com: Discover. Offering multiple payment options including credit cards and digital wallets improves customer trust and can increase conversion rates. The website has social media presence across 4 platforms: Facebook (@IXL), Twitter (@IXLLearning), Instagram (@ixl), and Pinterest (@IXL). An active social media presence is a positive trust indicator and helps build brand awareness and customer engagement.

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The title tag for ixl.com is good at 63 characters: "IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish". The length is acceptable, though it may be slightly truncated in some search result displays. The meta description is 330 characters (slightly long): "IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12. Used by over 18 million students, IXL provide...". Google typically displays up to 155-160 characters of the meta description in search results. A compelling meta description with a clear call-to-action can significantly improve click-through rates from search results. The page language is declared as en-us and a favicon is configured. Open Graph meta tags are configured with 4/4 recommended fields: OG title ("IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Span..."), OG description, OG image (social sharing thumbnail), OG type (website). These tags control how the page appears when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms that support the Open Graph protocol.

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Related domain discovery works by finding other websites that share the same IP address, Google Tag Manager container ID, Google Analytics property, or advertising pixel IDs with ixl.com. This data becomes available after batch-crawling the domain database — individual domain lookups cannot populate this section. We extracted the following tracking IDs that can be used for cross-referencing: gtm_id: GTM-MQKK9F.