What Is bulbagarden.net?
Bulbagarden (bulbagarden.net) is a Pokémon portal with news, forums, a Pokémon encyclopedia, and more. As of December 2022, the site bulbagarden.net gets an estimated 27.2 million monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. The Wayback Machine estimates that bulbagarden.net was founded on January 15, 2004. The Wayback Machine has crawled the site bulbagarden.net 2,683 times between January 15, 2004, and February 25, 2023. I can see that the crawl rate has steadily grown over the years and has been most frequent since 2014, suggesting the domain’s traffic has been highest since then.
Links and Profiles
Website: bulbagarden.net
Is bulbagarden.net Safe?
I analyzed bulbagarden.net for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:
I checked the site bulbagarden.net on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned with no major issues. You can see the same here: Sucuri scan for the site bulbagarden.net.
See also: How To Stay Safe Online
Sucuri says the site bulbagarden.net doesn’t have malware or any important security issues and is a low security risk.
Some hardening improvements can be made:
- Missing security header for
ClickJacking Protection. Alternatively, you can useContent-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'none'. Affected pages:
https://bulbagarden.net/404javascript.js
https://bulbagarden.net/404testpage4525d2fdc- Missing security header to prevent
Content Typesniffing. Affected pages:
https://bulbagarden.net/404javascript.js
https://bulbagarden.net/404testpage4525d2fdc- Missing
Strict-Transport-Securitysecurity header. Affected pages:
https://bulbagarden.net/404javascript.js
https://bulbagarden.net/404testpage4525d2fdc- Missing
Content-Security-Policydirective. We recommend to add the following CSP directives (you can use default-src if all values are the same): script-src, object-src, base-uri, frame-src
However, these hardening improvements don’t impact the Sucuri grade.
I can also see that the site bulbagarden.net is using a website firewall to protect it against DDoS attacks and website hacks.
To check this further I ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on the site bulbagarden.net and it says the page is clean. You can see the same here: Unmask Parasites scan for the site bulbagarden.net.
I also checked the domain bulbagarden.net on VirusTotal and no security vendor has flagged the domain as malicious, You can see the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site bulbagarden.net.
In conclusion, the site bulbagarden.net is a low security risk and doesn’t have malware according to Sucuri. Sucuri and VirusTotal also show that no associated security vendors have flagged the domain bulbagarden.net as malicious. Overall grade: Safe.
