Last Updated on September 8, 2025 by Mat Diekhake
Description
Tumblr (tumblr.com) is a social media site with an emphasis on pictures.
Alternatives
Similar sites to Tumblr include Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Patreon, Reddit, TikTok, Discord, and Facebook.
Site Navigation/Overview
The homepage shows trending topics. There were three other options from the menu: staff picks, answer time, and more. Within the more section are options for text, photos, GIFs, quotes, charts, audio, videos, and asks. The main feed on the page beneath the menu was images. I scrolled down the images. I scrolled through roughly 10 before a pop-up message overlay came on the screen. It had to sign in to continue. I signed into my account and the feed now said “for you” on top and the pictures featured things that were not related to me yet. In the left menu, I could choose between explore, activity, messages, inbox, account, settings, and TumblrMart. 6/17/2024
Site Popularity/Traffic Data
As of October 2023, tumblr.com has 194.7 million monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that tumblr.com was founded on January 5, 2007. The Internet Archive has saved tumblr.com 464,803 times between January 5, 2007 and December 12, 2023.
Safety, Security, and Trust Report
Here, I analyzed tumblr.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:
Sucuri says tumblr.com is a low security risk.
Sucuri says tumblr.com is a low security risk; however, it returned a 403 Forbidden status on the URL https://www.tumblr.com/help.
Security hardening flaws:
- Missing security header for
ClickJacking Protection. Affected pages:
https://about.tumblr.com - Missing security header to prevent
Content Typesniffing. Affected pages:
https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us - Missing
Strict-Transport-Securitysecurity header. Affected pages:
https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us - Missing
Content-Security-Policydirective. Affected pages:
https://about.tumblr.com
https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us
https://www.tumblr.com/privacy
Unmask Parasites says tumblr.com is clean.
VirusTotal says tumblr.com is clean; however, it does have an unfavorable community score.
URLVoid says tumblr.com passed all blocklist engines.
In conclusion, Sucuri says tumblr.com is a low security risk; however, it returned a 403 Forbidden status on the URL https://www.tumblr.com/help. Unmask Parasites says tumblr.com is clean of parasites. VirusTotal and Sucuri say tumblr.com isn’t malicious or blacklisted. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: tumblr.com
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