No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is w3schools.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate 26-year-old web tutorials site with clean security scan and verified Norwegian company behind it.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content, title, and description match the well-known W3Schools tutorial platform exactly. The domain is over 26 years old and registered to Refsnes Data AS, a real Norwegian company founded in 1998. No antivirus engines flagged the site, the hosting IP has zero abuse reports, and our visual analysis confirms the authentic homepage design. Independent reviews rate the service highly while searches turned up no scam complaints. These signals together confirm the site is safe and established.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows the legitimate, fully-rendered W3Schools homepage with clean professional design and no scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for w3schools.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Operated by Refsnes Data AS, a Norwegian company founded in 1998 by Jan Egil Refsnes (Wikipedia, Tracxn, company site)
- - No scam or fraud reports found in targeted searches for 'w3schools.com scam' or 'w3schools complaints OR fraud'
- - Trustpilot page exists with dozens of customer reviews (69+ mentioned)
- - Reddit discussions note it as a quick reference but criticize outdated or inaccurate content in some tutorials
- - Company site copyright: 'Copyright 1999-2026 by Refsnes Data'
- - Domain age given as 9562 days (~26 years); page title/description match official web tutorials site
- Course Reportopen
"18 W3Schools alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed W3Schools and rate their overall experience a 4.94 out of 5."
Operated by Refsnes Data AS (founded 1998 by Jan Egil Refsnes) in Sandnes, Norway; also W3Schools Network AS
Our research found no scam reports or complaints for w3schools.com. The site is operated by Refsnes Data AS, a Norwegian company founded in 1998, with positive reviews on independent education sites.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://w3schools.com/
- 2200https://www.w3schools.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on w3schools.com and not a lookalike like w-3schools.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on w3schools.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- w3schools.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. w3schools.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 277 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- w3schools.com is 26.2 years old, registered on 3/21/2000 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report w3schools.com as clean.
- No. w3schools.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- w3schools.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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