academy.com describes itself as "Shop Academy Sports + Outdoors for sporting goods, hunting, fishing and camping equipment. Find recreation and leisure products, footwear, apparel, grills, bikes, g…". It was registered in 1995, served from Dallas, United States. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 1 of 6 common security headers.
What is academy.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:
- display ×765
- name ×738
- metadata ×431
- text ×424
- level ×422
- thumbnail ×415
- status ×402
- show ×401
- unique ×363
- shoes ×91
Does academy.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 academy.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 74 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 32% of them (median 463ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 35% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 84% of them |
Related domains in this index
Analysed domains built on a similar stack:
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was academy.com registered?
academy.com was registered on 26 December 1995, which makes it about 30 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 MarkMonitor Inc..
Registration runs until 28 April 2028.
The domain carries 6 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 26 December 1995 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 28 April 2028 |
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is academy.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Dallas, United States.
The network is operated by Level 3, LLC (AS46928 Academy Sports + Outdoors).
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 academy.com running on?
academy.com exposes 1 identifiable technology: X-Powered-By: Express.
- X-Powered-By: Express
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 714ms to first byte this response is slow for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML alone is 1010KB before images, stylesheets or scripts are counted, which is heavy for a document that browsers must parse before anything renders.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | not disclosed |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 1,034,102 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title runs to 88 characters, so search results will truncate it and the end of the sentence will not be read.
The meta description is 167 characters and will be cut short in most result layouts.
No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.
All 4 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Academy Sports + Outdoors | Quality Sporting Goods | Top Hunting, Fishing & Outdoor Gear (88 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Shop Academy Sports + Outdoors for sporting goods, hunting, fishing and camping equipment. Find recreation and leisure products, footwear, apparel, grills, bikes, g… (167 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (0 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.academy.com/ |
| Open Graph title | Academy Sports + Outdoors | Quality Sporting Goods | Top Hunting, Fishing & Outdoor Gear |
| Headings / images | 0 H2s, 4 images (0 without alt text) |
Is academy.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Sectigo Limited and is
valid until 2027-02-02, which is 121 days from the date of this check. It covers
42 hostnames.
- simapi.academy.com
- academy.com
- alerts.academy.com
- android.academy.com
- api.academy.com
- apidam.academy.com
- appstore.academy.com
- beta.academy.com
- compass.academy.com
- ent-jenkins.academy.com
- eval.academy.com
- formerteammember.academy.com
The certificate has 121 days left to run.
It covers 42 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?
1 of 6 are set (Content Security Policy). Absent: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Without HSTS, a browser that has never visited before will try HTTP first, which is the window a network attacker needs.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | no | — |
| Content Security Policy | yes | script-src 'self' blob: data: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https://www.googletagmanager.com http://*.bazaarvoice.com ht |
| X-Content-Type-Options | no | — |
| X-Frame-Options | no | — |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for academy.com?
| IP addresses | 174.46.23.26 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 174-46-23-26.static.ctl.one |
| Name servers | ns5.markmonitor.com, ns6.markmonitor.com, ns3.markmonitor.com, ns7.markmonitor.com, ns2.markmonitor.com, ns1.markmonitor.com, ns4.markmonitor.com |
| Mail (MX) | academy-com.mail.protection.outlook.com (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:rnmk.com include:spf_c.oraclecloud.com ~all |
| TXT records | 12 |
academy.com resolves to a single address, so there is no DNS-level redundancy.
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 174-46-23-26.static.ctl.one, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for academy.com?
Mail is handled by Microsoft 365.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about academy.com?
1 of 1 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.
The server discloses software detail in x-powered-by, which tells an attacker what to target without them having to probe for it.
Can academy.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is published with p=none, which monitors but does not act. Forged mail is still delivered; the owner just gets reports about it.
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 3,354 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.academy.com/sitemap.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?
- WebPage
- Organization
The homepage publishes 2 structured data types: WebPage, Organization.
What does academy.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 6 third-party hosts (cdn.clarip.com, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, images.contentstack.io, p.typekit.net, use.typekit.net). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
19 cookies are set before any interaction (USERTYPE, akamai_ch, enablePriceRangeAttributes, enableShowPriceSwatch, klarnaTender). 17 lack the Secure flag.
The page links or refers to GitHub.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| USERTYPE | no | no | none/unset |
| akamai_ch | no | no | none/unset |
| enablePriceRangeAttributes | no | no | none/unset |
| enableShowPriceSwatch | no | no | none/unset |
| klarnaTender | no | no | none/unset |
| dMOnQV | no | no | none/unset |
| ACADEMY_PLCC_USER | no | no | none/unset |
| enableRmn | no | no | none/unset |
| searchReplatform | no | no | none/unset |
| lcontentstack | no | no | none/unset |
| atClEn | no | no | none/unset |
| QVPLPSRP | no | no | none/unset |
| kount360Enabled | no | no | none/unset |
| guestFavorite | no | no | none/unset |
| stack | no | no | none/unset |
| ecp | no | no | none/unset |
| enableXCCPromotion | no | no | none/unset |
| akaalb_Default-ALB-production | yes | yes | none |
| akavpau_wd | yes | yes | none |
Does academy.com settle on one address?
Both academy.com and www.academy.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 academy.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.academy.com/sitemap.xml listing 13 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-10-04.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does academy.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of academy.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does academy.com look when shared?
4 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: twitter:card.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
4 images on the homepage, 3 of them lazy-loaded (75%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
No srcset attributes are used, so every device is served the same image size regardless of screen.
Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means every page view also contacts Google. Self-hosting removes that dependency.
The page pulls 3 external stylesheets and 5 external scripts, with 0 carrying defer or async.
Is academy.com accessible and current?
The page uses 1 landmark element and 810 ARIA attributes.
There are 1 form inputs but only 0 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
The visible copyright notice reads 2011, 15 years behind the current year, which usually indicates the site is not actively maintained.
Can search engines index academy.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 765 internal and 0 external links across 0 outside hosts.
Visible text makes up 19.7% of the HTML.
How is academy.com delivered?
No Cache-Control header is sent for the HTML, so caching behaviour is left to browser defaults.
A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.
The TLS certificate also covers 11 subdomains: simapi.academy.com, alerts.academy.com, android.academy.com, api.academy.com, apidam.academy.com, appstore.academy.com, beta.academy.com, compass.academy.com.
- simapi.academy.com
- alerts.academy.com
- android.academy.com
- api.academy.com
- apidam.academy.com
- appstore.academy.com
- beta.academy.com
- compass.academy.com
- ent-jenkins.academy.com
- eval.academy.com
- formerteammember.academy.com
Frequently asked questions
Does academy.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 1 of 6. The ones not present are: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does academy.com allow AI crawlers?
robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.
What is academy.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: X-Powered-By: Express. 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 academy.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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