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Sotheby's — website check

Auction house, founded 1744, based in New York City. Sotheby's’s website (www.sothebys.com) runs on Adobe Experience Manager. It is delivered through jsDelivr. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.

Logo: Sotheby's · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
70
Brand Web Indexout of 100

Share of 26 technical checks the site passes: security, speed, email and SEO. A measurement of the website — not a popularity ranking.

67
Security
40
Speed & delivery
63
Email & domain
91
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026

About the brand

Founded1744
CountryUnited States
HeadquartersNew York City
IndustryAuction
Official websitewww.sothebys.com

Facts: Wikidata (CC0).

Built with

Cookie consent (CMP)OneTrust
Customer data platformsSegment
Web serversEnvoy
Social & widgetsFacebook SDK

Hosting & delivery

Network (AS)Amazon Web Services
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateGlobalSign nv-sa · valid until 2026-12-17
First response1,629 ms
Homepage weight539 KB
IPv6no

Email & domain

Mail providerMimecast
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=reject
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesAnthropic, Apple (domain verification), Atlassian Cloud, DocuSign, Google Search Console, Klaviyo, Microsoft 365, OneTrust

SEO & social

Title60 characters
Meta description188 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataOrganization, WebPage, WebSite
Language versions4
Open Graphyes

AI crawlers & robots

AI crawlers blockednone
llms.txtno
ads.txtno
security.txtno

Checklist

Security

  • HTTPS by default
  • HSTS header
  • TLS 1.3
  • Content-Security-Policy
  • X-Content-Type-Options
  • Referrer-Policy

Speed & delivery

  • HTTP/3
  • IPv6
  • First response under 1.5 s
  • Homepage under 1.5 MB

Email & domain

  • SPF record
  • DMARC record
  • DMARC enforced (quarantine / reject)
  • BIMI logo record
  • DNSSEC
  • CAA record

SEO & markup

  • Title tag 10–70 characters
  • Meta description
  • Canonical link
  • Exactly one H1
  • Structured data (JSON-LD)
  • Open Graph title and image
  • All images have alt text
  • XML sitemap
  • robots.txt
  • security.txt

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