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Yelp

Entertainment — Local Reviews [Tech]
Entertainmentmarketplaceest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
6
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 1451 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
yelp.com
edge
direct origin
server
DataDome
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Yelp's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 6 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 9 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Wishecommercetag-overlap100%49.00.0● live
Amazeecommercetag-overlap83%37.6+29.6— unverified
StyleLendecommercetag-overlap83%41.60.0● live
Transfercartraveltag-overlap83%40.00.0● live
Revelryecommercetag-overlap83%41.4+9.6● live
Urban Ladderecommercetag-overlap83%48.80.0— unverified
ShopTrendsecommercetag-overlap83%40.00.0● live
Amazon Flowecommercetag-overlap83%40.0+7.2● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelmarketplace
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives9
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:29Z403yelp.comDataDome1529unknown
2026-08-19 14:24Z403yelp.comDataDome1803unknown
2026-08-11 00:58Z403yelp.comDataDome402unknown
2026-08-08 06:54Z403yelp.comDataDome1192unknown
2026-08-05 19:11Z403yelp.comDataDome1184unknown
2026-07-30 18:26Z403yelp.comDataDome205unknown
2026-07-23 09:52Z403yelp.comDataDome61unknown
2026-07-18 09:01Z10015timeout
2026-07-11 09:14Z403yelp.comDataDome2638unknown
2026-07-04 13:10Z403yelp.comDataDome124unknown
2026-06-23 14:19Z403yelp.comDataDome389unknown
2026-06-21 17:24Z403yelp.comDataDome119unknown
2026-06-21 17:24Z403yelp.comDataDome519unknown
2026-06-20 05:13Z403yelp.comDataDome138unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Yelp · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/yelp · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.