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Whois & Analysis for carfax.com

Dec 15, 2019 6:42 am UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner has chosen to keep his whois contact information private.
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PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
Automotive  >  Buying/Selling Cars
• Online since
• Age
27 years, 3 months, 22 days
• Alexa Rank
#3.056, carfax.com is in the world's top 5.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by DigiCert Inc has expired on March 10, 2020.
Title Tag
CARFAX™ - Shop, Buy, Own, & Sell Used Cars
Length: 48 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Don't run the risk of buying a used car with costly hidden problems. Shop with confidence for a car with the CARFAX vehicle history that's right for you.
Length: 153 (recommended: 50 to 160)
Google preview
Desktop Version

CARFAX™ - Shop, Buy, Own, & Sell Used Cars

https://carfax.com

Don't run the risk of buying a used car with costly hidden problems. Shop with confidence for a car with the CARFAX vehicle history that's right for you.

Mobile Version

https://carfax.com

CARFAX™ - Shop, Buy, Own, & Sell Used Cars

Don't run the risk of buying a used car with costly hidden problems. Shop with confidence for a car with the CARFAX vehicle histor...

Encoding
Great, language/character encoding is specified: utf-8
Hreflang Tags
URL Resolve

Great, a redirect is in place to redirect traffic from your non-preferred domain. All versions of your page point to the same URL.

URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

The results of our semantic analysis are shown below using the website's language.

They are the main concepts covered by carfax.com.

Each concept has a confidence score. The higher it is, the more important the topic is relative to the page.

Topics
Carfax (company) Confidence: 72% Arrow up

Carfax, Inc. is a commercial web-based service that supplies vehicle history reports to individuals and businesses on used cars and light trucks for the American and Canadian consumers.

Used Cars Confidence: 68% Arrow up

Used Cars is a 1980 American satirical comedy film, co-written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and directed by Zemeckis.

Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) is a devious car salesman working for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden).

Luke's principal rival, located directly across the street, is his more prosperous brother, Roy L.

Fuchs (also played by Warden), who is scheming to take over Luke's lot.

The film also stars Deborah Harmon and Gerrit Graham, and the supporting cast includes Frank McRae, David L.

Lander, Michael McKean, Al Lewis, Dub Taylor, Harry Northup, Dick Miller, and Sarah Wills.

Used car Confidence: 65% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

carfax.com website speed is fast. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

1.2s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.2 seconds.

Speed Percentile

71%

carfax.com is faster than approximately 71 percent of the web. Your website page speed needs to be as fast as you can make it, without compromising the customer experience.

A good goal to achieve is a loading time of 2 seconds on desktop and mobile devices.

PAGESPEED INSIGHTS

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Chrome User Experience Report Results

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TRAFFIC

This website is ranked #3.056 by Alexa.

This rank is traffic based. The lower the rank is, the better the domain is ranked.

Daily visitors by country

  • carfax.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 3 countries
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (95.9%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (6.3%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #592
Flag for MexicoMexico #7.324
Flag for CanadaCanada #13.046

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

Phone
How carfax.com looks like on a mobile device such as an iPhone.

Tablet
How carfax.com looks like on a tablet such as an iPad.

Main colors used

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  • 16% #ffffff
  • 11% #30a0e0
  • 11% #105090
  • 9% #5090c0
  • 9% #4080c0
  • 7% #003070
  • 6% #3070b0
  • 6% #2060a0
  • 5% #f0f0f0
  • 3% #f0ffff
  • 2% #c0e0f0
  • 1% #a0c0e0

Text/code ratio

carfax.com's text/code ratio is 3.80%. It's a bit low. Consider raising it by adding more text content of value for your visitors, or keeping your code clean.
Text / Code Ratio 3.80%

A good text to HTML ratio is anywhere from 25 to 70%.

This percentage refers to the visible text ratio, as opposed to HTML elements, image tags and other non-visible information.

Main HTML tags

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Great, we found headings on this page.

  • <H1> 1
  • <H2> 2
  • <H3> 3
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 5
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Shopping for a used car?
<H2>
2nd level heading
Already own a car?
Explore used cars for sale
<H3>
3rd level heading
Search for used cars by automaker
Popular cars, suvs, and trucks for sale
Car research
<H5>
5th level heading
Products
Resources
About us
Learn more
Contact us
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We found 14 images on this website.
7 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Image Image URL Occurrences
- data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGAAAABgCAMAAADVRocKAAAAjVBMVEUAAAD///////////////////... 1
- data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGAAAABgCAMAAADVRocKAAAAsVBMVEUAAAD///////////////////... 1
- data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGAAAABgCAMAAADVRocKAAACPVBMVEVHcEz///////////////////... 1
- data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGAAAABgCAMAAADVRocKAAAAmVBMVEUAAAD///////////////////... 1
- data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGAAAABgCAMAAADVRocKAAAAe1BMVEUAAAD///////////////////... 1

Alternative text allows you to add a description to an image.

Google rely on alternative text attributes to determine relevance to a search query. Alternative text also makes an image more likely to appear in a Google image search.

It looks like you're missing alternative text for 7 images on carfax.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

This is an overview of your homepage shares on social networks.

Congratulations, your website is highly shared on social media! It's an excellent signal for your overall SEO strategy.

  • Facebook iconFacebook
  • Total Engagement 17.994
  • Likes 2.015
  • Shares 15.264
  • Comments 715

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar MARKMONITOR, INC.
Registration Date 07/30/1997 27 years, 3 months, 22 days ago
Last Modified 04/22/2018 6 years, 7 months ago
Expiration Date 07/28/2025 8 months, 11 days from now
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Host IP Address Country
pdns208.ultradns.org 156.154.67.208 Flag for United StatesUnited States
pdns208.ultradns.net 156.154.65.208 Flag for United StatesUnited States
pdns208.ultradns.biz 156.154.66.208 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • CyrusOne LLC
  • IP Address
  • 216.117.25.113
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Centreville
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 38.8434 : -77.4385
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