YouTube
This signal marks pages that embed YouTube videos or players, loaded through YouTube’s iframe embed and API. ScanMalware detects it from the youtube.com and ytimg.com embed assets.
Embedded players are third-party content with their own scripts; the embeds themselves are generally low-risk, but they are still part of a full account of what a page loads.
Commonly deployed alongside YouTube
Of the 11,056 public scans where YouTube was detected, these are the technologies most often present on the same site. The share is the percentage of YouTube sites that also ran each one.
| Technology | Category | Share of YouTube sites |
|---|---|---|
| jQuery | wappalyzer | 61.17% |
| Google Analytics | wappalyzer | 56.95% |
| Open-Graph-Protocol | miscellaneous | 53.48% |
| PHP | wappalyzer | 42.89% |
| JQuery | miscellaneous | 41.54% |
| MetaGenerator | miscellaneous | 41.27% |
| WordPress | cms | 36.77% |
| Google Tag Manager | wappalyzer | 36.19% |
| MySQL | wappalyzer | 35.88% |
| HSTS | wappalyzer | 35.54% |
| Cloudflare | wappalyzer | 33.63% |
| Google-Analytics | miscellaneous | 32.15% |
| HTTP/3 | wappalyzer | 30.48% |
| X-UA-Compatible | miscellaneous | 30.42% |
How ScanMalware detects YouTube
YouTube is detected by analysing the response headers, HTML markup, JavaScript runtime and asset URLs captured when ScanMalware loads the site in a real headless browser.
From any scan you can pivot into related signals — JARM TLS fingerprints, ASN ownership and BGP routing, certificate history, JavaScript analysis and the overall security verdict — to understand not just that YouTube is present, but how it is being used. Open the full search interface for YouTube →
Recent public scans featuring YouTube
A rolling sample of recent public scans where YouTube was detected. Listing a site here is not a safety judgement — open a scan to see its full verdict.
Frequently asked questions about YouTube
- Does using YouTube mean a website is unsafe?
- No. YouTube is a stack component, not a verdict. ScanMalware scores the whole page — its scripts, redirects, certificates, threat-intelligence matches and behaviour — so a site using YouTube can be perfectly safe or actively malicious.
- How many sites using YouTube has ScanMalware scanned?
- YouTube has been detected in 11,056 public scans on ScanMalware.com. Each scan is a real headless-browser visit, and the figure updates as new URLs are submitted.
- What technologies are commonly used with YouTube?
- Across scanned sites, YouTube is most often seen alongside jQuery, Google Analytics and Open-Graph-Protocol. The full co-occurrence breakdown is listed on this page.
Browse all profiled technologies on the technology index, or scan a URL to see its full stack.