shein.com describes itself as "Grastisversand √ Gratisrückgabe √ Nur für Neuer, Extra 30% Rabatt √ Jeden Tag 500 + Neuheiten √ Tägliche Deals mit dem günstigen Preis √ Komm und beeil dich, kaufe mehr und spare…". It is built on Vue, registered in 1998, served from Boardman, United States. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 4 of 6 common security headers.
What is shein.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 ×766
- color ×723
- font-size ×578
- width ×539
- center ×523
- flex ×480
- transform ×399
- height ×399
- position ×369
- align-items ×360
Does shein.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 shein.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 77 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 14% of them (median 496ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 76% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 75% of them |
Related domains in this index
Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.):
Sharing a network means sharing a host or CDN. It implies nothing about a
relationship between the sites themselves.
Analysed domains built on a similar stack:
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was shein.com registered?
shein.com was registered on 16 January 1998, which makes it about 28 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 Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd..
Registration runs until 15 January 2033.
| Registered | 16 January 1998 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 15 January 2033 |
| Registrar | Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. |
| Registry status | active |
Where is shein.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Boardman, United States.
The network is operated by AWS EC2 (us-west-2) (AS16509 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 shein.com running on?
shein.com exposes 1 identifiable technology: Vue.
- Vue
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 1388ms to first byte this response is slow for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML alone is 1106KB 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 | 1,132,897 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 56 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
The meta description is 184 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.
| Title | Damenbekleidung | Kleidung & Fashion | SHEIN Deutschland (56 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Grastisversand √ Gratisrückgabe √ Nur für Neuer, Extra 30% Rabatt √ Jeden Tag 500 + Neuheiten √ Tägliche Deals mit dem günstigen Preis √ Komm und beeil dich, kaufe mehr und spare mehr! (184 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (0 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://de.shein.com/ |
| Open Graph title | not set |
| Headings / images | 0 H2s, 0 images (0 without alt text) |
Is shein.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert, Inc. and is
valid until 2027-01-21, which is 108 days from the date of this check. It covers
2 hostnames.
- *.shein.com
- shein.com
The certificate has 108 days left to run.
It covers 2 hostnames, so it was issued for this site specifically.
Which security headers does it set?
4 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy). Absent: X-Frame-Options, Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=7776000000; includeSubDomains |
| Content Security Policy | yes | frame-ancestors *.shein.com https://www.shein.com.hk https://www.shein.com.vn https://www.shein.com.mx https://www.shein |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | no | — |
| Referrer-Policy | yes | no-referrer-when-downgrade |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for shein.com?
| IP addresses | 52.39.206.44, 52.39.90.56 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | ec2-52-39-206-44.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com, ec2-52-39-90-56.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com |
| Name servers | ns-1253.awsdns-28.org, ns-1991.awsdns-56.co.uk, ns-398.awsdns-49.com, ns-893.awsdns-47.net |
| Mail (MX) | mx-shein-com.icoremail.net (pri 5), mx.sheincorp.cn (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:safe-spf01.shein.com include:trustpilotservice.com include:spf-cm.icoremail.net ~all |
| TXT records | 18 |
shein.com resolves to 2 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
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 ec2-52-39-206-44.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com, ec2-52-39-90-56.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for shein.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 shein.com?
2 of 2 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.
3 email addresses appear in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find them.
Can shein.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 else does shein.com publish?
An app-ads.txt file is also published, which indicates mobile app inventory alongside the website.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 279 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.shein.com/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?
- OnlineStore
- SearchAction
The homepage publishes 2 structured data types: OnlineStore, SearchAction.
What does shein.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 14 third-party hosts (armor.ltwebstatic.com, cjs.ltwebstatic.com, common.ltwebstatic.com, img.ltwebstatic.com, sc.ltwebstatic.com, shein.co.uk). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
5 cookies are set before any interaction (AT, armorUuid, sessionID_shein, sessionID_shein, sessionID_shein). 1 lacks the Secure flag.
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, Instagram, GitHub.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| AT | yes | yes | none/unset |
| armorUuid | no | no | none/unset |
| sessionID_shein | yes | yes | none/unset |
| sessionID_shein | yes | yes | none/unset |
| sessionID_shein | yes | yes | none/unset |
Does shein.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://de.shein.com/?cdn_rsite=ak&ref=www&rep=dir&ret=de, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can shein.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.shein.com/sitemap-index.xml listing 383 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 shein.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of shein.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does shein.com look when shared?
1 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:title, og:description, og:image, twitter:card.
The page declares 116 hreflang alternates (x-default, en-us, es-us, en, es, pt, de-de, ar-de, en-de, de-at, ar-at, tr-at), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
The page pulls 0 external stylesheets and 2 external scripts, with 0 carrying defer or async.
Is shein.com accessible and current?
The page uses 0 landmark elements and 0 ARIA attributes.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index shein.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://de.shein.com/), which tells search engines the authoritative copy lives elsewhere.
Visible text makes up 79.3% of the HTML.
How is shein.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate.
Frequently asked questions
Does shein.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 4 of 6. The ones not present are: X-Frame-Options, Permissions-Policy.
Does shein.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 shein.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Vue. 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 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 shein.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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