TikTok (tiktok.com) is a short video clip website owned by ByteDance (bytedance.com). TikTok users can upload videos that range from 3 seconds to 10 minutes, making it a cross between Vine (vine.co) and YouTube (youtube.com). Though owned by a Chinese company, TikTok is mostly used by non-Chinese people, and a Chinese counterpart Douyin (douyin.com), owned by the same parent company, gets the most Chinese traffic.
ALTERNATIVES
HISTORY
As of March 2023, tiktok.com has 2.246 billion monthly views (1.7B, Feb 2023), acccording to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that tiktok.com was founded on September 2016. The Internet Archive has saved tiktok.com 3,586,545 times between December 6, 1998 and April 13, 2024.
Is tiktok.com Safe?
I analyzed tiktok.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:
I checked tiktok.com on Sucuri, and it returned with no issues. Results: Sucuri scan for the site bytedance.com.
Security hardening flaws:
- Missing security header for
ClickJacking Protection. Affected pages:
https://www.tiktok.com/404?fromUrl=/404javascript.js
https://www.tiktok.com/404?fromUrl=/404testpage4525d2fdc - Missing
Strict-Transport-Securitysecurity header. Affected pages:
https://www.tiktok.com/404?fromUrl=/404javascript.js
https://www.tiktok.com/404?fromUrl=/404testpage4525d2fdc - Missing
Content-Security-Policydirective. Affected pages:
https://www.tiktok.com/404?fromUrl=/404javascript.js
https://www.tiktok.com/404?fromUrl=/404testpage4525d2fdc
I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on tiktok.com and it is clean. Results: Unmask Parasites scan for the site tiktok.com.
I also checked tiktok.com on VirusTotal, and it is clean. Results: VirusTotal scan for the site tiktok.com.
Further, tiktok.com passed all blocklist engines on URLVoid. Results: URLVoid scan for tiktok.com.
In conclusion, tiktok.com is safe. But it has security header issues. OVERALL GRADE: Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: tiktok.com