cogentco.com Domain Owner Whois and Analysis

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

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

SEO SCORE

cogentco.com
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✅ 6 criteria passed
❌ 5 criteria to solve

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner

Private

• Category

Technology & Computing > Computer Networking

• Online since

August 13, 1999 Explore Wayback Machine

• Age

25 years, 3 months, 7 days

• Alexa Rank

#46.252, cogentco.com is in the world's top 50.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

❌ SSL Certificate

This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by Let's Encrypt has expired on February 7, 2020.

✅ Title Tag

Cogent Communications
Length: 21 (recommended: 10 to 70)

✅ Meta Description

Cogent is one of the world's largest Internet Service Providers, delivering high-quality Internet, Ethernet and Colocation services.
Length: 132 (recommended: 50 to 160)

ⓘ Google preview

Desktop Version

Cogent Communications

https://cogentco.com

Cogent is one of the world's largest Internet Service Providers, delivering high-quality Internet, Ethernet and Colocation services.

Mobile Version

https://cogentco.com

Cogent Communications

Cogent is one of the world's largest Internet Service Providers, delivering high-quality Internet, Ethernet and Colocation service...

✅ Encoding

Great, language/character encoding is specified: utf-8

ⓘ Hreflang Tags

Alternate URL	Hreflang
https://cogentco.com/en/	en-GB
https://cogentco.com/es/	es-ES
https://cogentco.com/de/	de-DE
https://cogentco.com/fr/	fr-FR
https://cogentco.com/en/	x-default

❌ URL Resolve

No 301 redirects are in place to redirect traffic to your preferred domain. Pages that load successfully both with and without www. are treated as duplicate content! Not all versions of your page point to the same URL.

URL	Resolved URL
http://cogentco.com	https://cogentco.com/en/
https://cogentco.com	https://cogentco.com/en/
http://www.cogentco.com	https://www.cogentco.com/en/
https://www.cogentco.com	https://www.cogentco.com/en/

✅ Robots.txt

https://cogentco.com/robots.txt

✅ URL Parameters

Great, the domain URLs look clean.

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

ⓘ The owner has associated the following topics to the website.

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

They are the main concepts covered by cogentco.com.

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

Topics

Cogent Communications Confidence: 90%

Cogent Communications is a multinational internet service provider based in the United States. Cogent's primary services consist of Internet access and data transport, offered on fiber optic, IP data-only network, along with colocation in data centers.

Ethernet Confidence: 87%

Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE 802.3, and has since been refined to support higher bit rates and longer link distances. Over time, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies such as token ring, FDDI and ARCNET.

Internet service provider Confidence: 80%

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing and using the Internet. Internet service providers may be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned.

Colocation centre Confidence: 76%

A colocation centre (also spelled co-location, or colo) or "carrier hotel", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other firms—and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers—with a minimum of cost and complexity.

WEBSITE SPEED

❌ cogentco.com website speed is normal. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

0.8s

This domain loads at the median speed of 0.8 seconds.

Speed Percentile

87%

cogentco.com is faster than approximately 87 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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TRAFFIC

ⓘ This website is ranked #46.252 by Alexa.

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

Daily visitors by country

United States of America (80.1%)
Mexico (7.3%)
Others (12.6%)

Traffic country ranks

Country	Rank
United States of America	#10.304
Mexico	#17.633
Turkey	#97.314

LAYOUT

ⓘ Doctype HTML5

ⓘ Responsive website, mobile-friendly.

Mobile Rendering

This website doesn't seem to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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

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Main colors used

ⓘ These are the main HTML color codes used by this website.

29% #ffffff
10% #d0e0f0
9% #f0f0f0
9% #000000
7% #f0f0ff
3% #203040
3% #f0ffff
3% #1070b0
2% #5090d0
2% #b0d0f0
2% #4070c0
2% #006090

Text/code ratio

ⓘ cogentco.com's text/code ratio is 7.34%. 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 7.34%

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

❌ Headings

We did not find HTML headings (<H1> to <H6>) on this page.

cogentco.com currently has 0 HTML heading tags. Each page should have one, and only one, <H1> tag. Use phrases in your headings with your most important keywords in the top level, and be sure to maintain the <H1> to <H6> hierarchy.

<H1> 0
<H2> 0
<H3> 0
<H4> 0
<H5> 0
<H6> 0

❌ Alt attributes

We found 7 images on this website.
2 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Image	Image URL	Occurrences
	https://secure.soma9vols.com/159007.png	1
	https://cogentco.com/files/images/home_slideshow/network-map.jpg	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 2 images on cogentco.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

LINKS

ⓘ There is a total of 62 links on the homepage of this website.

ⓘ Internal links : 53

For a better readability, only the first 50 internal links are shown below.

Anchor	Type	URL
No anchor	empty	/en/
support	text	/en/customer-service/support-desk
site map	text	/en/sitemap
Products & Services	text	/en/products-and-services
Network	text	/en/network
Customer Service	text	/en/customer-service
News	text	/en/news
About Cogent	text	/en/about-cogent
Contact	text	/en/contact/general-inquiry
Dedicated Internet Access	text	/en/products-and-services/dedicated-internet-access
IP Transit	text	/en/products-and-services/ip-transit
Ethernet Services	text	/en/products-and-services/ethernet-services
SD-WAN	text	/en/products-and-services/sd-wan
Colocation Services	text	/en/products-and-services/colocation-services
Success Stories	text	/en/products-and-services/success-stories
Solutions	text	/en/products-and-services/solutions
FAQ	text	/en/customer-service/faq
Support Desk	text	/en/customer-service/support-desk
Manage Accounts	text	/en/customer-service/manage-accounts
Customer Service Stats	text	/en/customer-service/customer-service-stats
Overview	text	/en/about-cogent
History	text	/en/about-cogent/history
Management Team	text	/en/about-cogent/management-team
Cogent Powered Buildings	text	/en/about-cogent/cogent-powered-buildings
Investor Relations	text	/en/about-cogent/investor-relations
Careers	text	/en/about-cogent/careers
Press Releases	text	/en/news/press-releases
Media Coverage	text	/en/news/media-coverage
Events	text	/en/news/events
Media Kit	text	/en/news/media-kit
General Inquiry	text	/en/contact/general-inquiry
Sales Inquiry	text	/en/contact/sales-inquiry
Network Map	text	/en/network/network-map
Service Locations	text	/en/network/service-locations
Cogent Data Centers	text	/en/network/cogent-data-centers
Performance	text	/en/network/performance
Peering	text	/en/network/peering
Looking Glass	text	/en/network/looking-glass
Connected Autonomous Systems	text	/en/network/connected-autonomous-systems
No anchor	empty	/en/news/press-releases?format=feed&type=rss
	image	/en/products-and-services/solutions/solutions-for-enterprises
	image	/en/products-and-services/solutions/solutions-for-carriers-and-service-providers
	image	/en/products-and-services/solutions/solutions-for-application-and-content-providers
	image	/en/network/service-locations
	image	/en/contact/sales-inquiry
Support	text	/en/customer-service/support-desk
POP/Service Locations	text	/en/network/service-locations
Acceptable Use Policy	text	/en/acceptable-use-policy
Privacy Policy	text	/privacy-policy
GDPR	text	/cogent-gdpr

ⓘ External links : 9

Anchor	Type	URL
partner portal	text	http://partner.cogentco.com
customer login	text	http://ecogent.cogentco.com
No anchor	empty	http://www.linkedin.com/companies/cogent-communications
No anchor	empty	https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/117200275723384307063/117200275723384307063/posts
No anchor	empty	http://www.facebook.com/cogentco
No anchor	empty	http://www.twitter.com/cogentco
Customer Login	text	http://ecogent.cogentco.com/
Legal Matters	text	https://ecogent.cogentco.com/legalmatters/
No anchor	empty	https://plus.google.com/117200275723384307063

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

ⓘ Domain Registrar	NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC
ⓘ Registration Date	08/13/1999 25 years, 3 months, 7 days ago
ⓘ Last Modified	08/14/2018 6 years, 3 months, 6 days ago
ⓘ Expiration Date	08/13/2028 3 years, 8 months, 29 days from now