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pch.com — domain analysis

By TechQuiller com Published 1 min read

pch.com describes itself as "Publishers Clearing House has awarded over $492 million to real winners since 1967. Enter for your chance to win cash, cars, and dream vacations today.". It is built on Shopify, registered in 1994, served from Ottawa, Canada. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 4 of 6 common security headers, 2 tracking scripts.

200HTTP status
328msResponse time
1,231Words on the homepage
4/6Security headers set

What is pch.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:

  • entries ×30
  • quick ×10
  • entry ×9
  • one-time ×8
  • premium ×8
  • winner ×8
  • view ×8
  • every ×7
  • instant ×7
  • purchase ×7

Does pch.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 pch.com compare with other domains analysed here?

Measured against the 82 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 71% of them
(median 523ms)
Security headers More than 84% of them
Domain age Older than 97% of them

Related domains in this index

Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS13335 Cloudflare, 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 pch.com registered?

pch.com was registered on 18 January 1994, which makes it about 32 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 Network Solutions, LLC.

Registration runs until 19 January 2027.

The domain carries 1 registry lock, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.

Registered 18 January 1994
Expires 19 January 2027
Registrar Network Solutions, LLC
Registry status client transfer prohibited

Where is pch.com hosted?

The first address resolves to infrastructure in Ottawa, Canada.

The network is operated by Shopify, Inc. (AS13335 Cloudflare, 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 pch.com running on?

pch.com exposes 4 identifiable technologies: Shopify, jQuery, Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare.

Cloudflare sits in front of the origin, so the server header, IP addresses and response timing describe the edge rather than the machine actually running the site.

Visitor tracking is present (Google Tag Manager), so this homepage is not cookie-free.

  • Shopify
  • jQuery
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Cloudflare

How does the homepage respond?

The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.

At 328ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.

The HTML alone is 649KB 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 cloudflare
Compression gzip
Page size 664,204 bytes
Declared language en
Mobile viewport declared

What does the homepage say about itself?

The title is 65 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.

A meta description of 151 characters is present.

All 45 images on the homepage have alt attributes.

Title Publishers Clearing House: Online Sweepstakes & Prizes Since 1967 (65 chars)
Meta description Publishers Clearing House has awarded over $492 million to real winners since 1967. Enter for your chance to win cash, cars, and dream vacations today. (151 chars)
H1 PCH (1 on the page)
Canonical https://www.pch.com/
Open Graph title Publishers Clearing House: Online Sweepstakes & Prizes Since 1967
Headings / images 7 H2s, 45 images (0 without alt text)

Is pch.com served over a valid certificate?

The HTTPS certificate is issued by Let's Encrypt and is
valid until 2026-11-30, which is 56 days from the date of this check. It covers
1 hostname.

  • pch.com

The certificate has 56 days left to run.

It covers 1 hostname, so it was issued for this site specifically.

Let's Encrypt certificates are free and run on 90-day terms, so this site is almost certainly renewing automatically.

Which security headers does it set?

4 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options). Absent: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.

Header Set Value
HSTS yes max-age=7889238
Content Security Policy yes block-all-mixed-content; frame-ancestors 'none'; upgrade-insecure-requests;
X-Content-Type-Options yes nosniff
X-Frame-Options yes DENY
Referrer-Policy no —
Permissions-Policy no —

How is DNS configured for pch.com?

IP addresses 23.227.38.65
Reverse DNS myshopify.com
Name servers ns-1407.awsdns-47.org, ns-1561.awsdns-03.co.uk, ns-483.awsdns-60.com, ns-667.awsdns-19.net
Mail (MX) usb-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com (pri 10), usb-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com (pri 10)
SPF v=spf1 ip4:129.152.0.0/17 ip4:170.146.220.0/23 ip4:174.129.15.10 ip4:216.255.103.0/24 ip4:199.231.132.172 ip4:52.205.20.144 ip4:208.185.229.45 ip4:208.112.39.158 ip4:52.72.16.225 include:_spf.google.com include:us-k1.o365.crossware.co.nz include:usb._netblocks.mimecast.com include:spf.dynect.net include:spf.constantcontact.com include:rnmk.com include:mail.zendesk.com ~all
TXT records 27

pch.com resolves to a single address, so there is no DNS-level redundancy.

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 myshopify.com, which usually names the hosting provider.

Who runs DNS and mail for pch.com?

DNS is operated by Amazon Route 53 rather than self-hosted name servers.

Mail is handled by Mimecast.

No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.

What else is worth noting about pch.com?

14 of 14 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.

4 email addresses appear in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find them.

Can pch.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 else does pch.com publish?

An ads.txt file is published with 132 entries, which means the site sells programmatic advertising and has declared who may resell its inventory.

What does robots.txt allow?

robots.txt is 3,612 bytes and names
2 user-agent groups.

It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.

Sitemaps declared:

  • https://www.pch.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?

  • WebSite
  • SearchAction
  • Organization
  • MerchantReturnPolicy
  • ImageObject
  • WebPage
  • BreadcrumbList
  • ListItem

The homepage publishes 8 structured data types: WebSite, SearchAction, Organization, MerchantReturnPolicy, ImageObject, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem.

What does pch.com load from third parties?

The homepage pulls resources from 12 third-party hosts (ajax.googleapis.com, api.judge.me, cdn.judge.me, cdn.moengage.com, cdn.shopify.com, cdn1.judge.me). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.

5 cookies are set before any interaction (localization, cart_currency, _shopify_essential, _shopify_analytics, _shopify_marketing). 2 lack the Secure flag.

The page links or refers to X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.

Cookie Secure HttpOnly SameSite
localization no no none/unset
cart_currency no no none/unset
_shopify_essential yes yes lax
_shopify_analytics yes yes lax
_shopify_marketing yes yes lax

Does pch.com settle on one address?

Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.

Both pch.com and www.pch.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 pch.com be crawled?

A sitemap index is served at https://www.pch.com/sitemap.xml listing 5 entries.

A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.

What tracking does pch.com run?

2 tracking scripts detected: Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity.

No consent management platform was detected alongside them. Where GDPR or the ePrivacy Directive applies, analytics and advertising scripts generally need consent before they load.

How does pch.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.

How are images, fonts and scripts handled?

45 images on the homepage, 42 of them lazy-loaded (93%).

Modern image formats are in use (2 WebP/AVIF references).

The page pulls 6 external stylesheets and 63 external scripts, with 29 carrying defer or async.

Responses carry Cloudflare edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.

Is pch.com accessible and current?

The page uses 12 landmark elements and 123 ARIA attributes.

There are 4 form inputs but only 0 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.

Can search engines index pch.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 78 internal and 6 external links across 5 outside hosts.

Visible text is only 1.4% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.

The heading outline skips 1 level, which breaks the document structure screen readers navigate by.

How is pch.com delivered?

No Cache-Control header is sent for the HTML, so caching behaviour is left to browser defaults.

HTTP/3 is advertised via alt-svc, so modern browsers will upgrade to QUIC after the first visit.

Frequently asked questions

Does pch.com set the usual HTTP security headers?

It sets 4 of 6. The ones not present are: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.

Does pch.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 pch.com built with?

The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Shopify, jQuery, Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare. 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 pch.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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