What Is seatgeek.com, and Is It Safe?

Last Updated on November 12, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

SeatGeek (seatgeek.com) is a ticket search engine for buying tickets to sports, music, and shows. You can also browse by city to find out what events are coming up in that area.

ALTERNATIVES

Similar sites to SeatGeek include StubHub, Vivid Seats, Ticketmaster, AXS, Live Nation, Songkick, Tickets-Center, and TicketNetwork.

DESCRIPTION

When I analyzed seatgeek.com, the focal point above the fold was the search field for me to type in what event I wanted to see live. Beneath the search field were picture thumbnails of recent events. I liked the homepage above the fold. I thought the search field was required and made sense rather than trying to show thumbnails of all of the events. I also liked that some thumbnails were included because they helped users understand the types of things to search for in the search field. The next question is how well the search field works. I noticed an NBA basketball game as one of the event thumbnails currently on offer, so I browsed for some other NBA teams in the search field. The search results pages were impressive, filled with calendar-style upcoming events for the teams I browsed for. Moreover, there was plenty of written information about the basketball team including useful information about basketball team tickets in general.

HISTORY

As of July 2023, the site seatgeek.com has an estimated 20.5 million monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that seatgeek.com was founded on July 28, 2009. The Internet Archive has saved the domain seatgeek.com 15,314 times between July 28, 2009 and August 22, 2023.

Is seatgeek.com Safe?

Here, I analyzed seatgeek.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:

I checked seatgeek.com on Sucuri, and it returned with no issues.

Security hardening flaws:

• Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing. Affected pages:
  https://seatgeek.com/404javascript.js
  https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/8a074fe5?sixpack_client_id=e96f845f-2ce5-4a7b-b08d-b5250eb90678&affiliate_id=&affiliate_placement_id=&affiliate_product_id=&seatgeek_web_platform=desktop_web&seatgeek_web_ui_origin=footer&seatgeek_web_display_type=1&af_web_dp=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seatgeek.android&hl=en_US&seatgeek_web_entrance_url=https://seatgeek.com/m
• The ‘unsafe-eval’ keyword in Content-Security-Policy is not recommended. Affected pages:
  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seatgeek-buy-event-tickets/id582790430?af_click_lookback=30d&is_retargeting=true&pid=seatgeek&seatgeek_web_display_type=1&seatgeek_web_platform=desktop_web&seatgeek_web_ui_origin=footer&shortlink=8a074fe5&sixpack_client_id=56c2a2d7-ed94-417d-9828-83bca169e6d5&source_caller=ui

I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on seatgeek.com, and it is clean.

I also checked seatgeek.com on VirusTotal, and it is clean.

Further, seatgeek.com passed all blocklist engines on URLVoid.

In conclusion, Sucuri says seatgeek.com doesn’t have malware. Unmask Parasites says seatgeek.com is clean of parasites. VirusTotal and Sucuri say seatgeek.com isn’t malicious or blacklisted. OVERALL GRADE: Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: seatgeek.com