care.com describes itself as "Get the help you need for your children, pets, elderly parents, home and lifestyle. Making it easier to find better care for your whole family.". It is built on Next.js, registered in 1997, served from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 4 of 6 common security headers.
What is care.com about?
The words appearing most often on the homepage, excluding common filler, are
a rough indication of subject matter rather than a description of the business:
- care ×12
- caregivers ×4
- carefind ×3
- careadult ×3
- help ×3
- housecleaning ×3
- years ×3
- experience ×3
- need ×3
- families ×2
Does care.com publish the usual trust pages?
Found: about. Not found at the usual addresses:
contact, privacy, terms.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does care.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 12 domains in this index. This is a
small, self-selected sample — the domains people happened to look up — not a
representative sample of the web.
| Response time | Faster than 33% of them (median 467ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 64% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 64% of them |
Related domains in this index
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was care.com registered?
care.com was registered on 11 July 1997, which makes it about 29 years old.
A registration this old means the domain has been renewed repeatedly, which costs money every year and is not something abandoned or disposable projects tend to do.
The registrar of record is MarkMonitor Inc..
Registration runs until 10 July 2027.
The domain carries 3 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 11 July 1997 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 10 July 2027 |
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited |
Where is care.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The network is operated by Akamai Technologies (AS20940 Akamai International B.V.).
Hosting location describes where the responding server sits, not where the business is. A CDN will report its nearest edge rather than the origin.
What is care.com running on?
care.com exposes 1 identifiable technology: Next.js.
The build output indicates a server-rendered JavaScript framework, which means the HTML served to crawlers is generated ahead of time rather than assembled in the browser.
- Next.js
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 480ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 430KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | not disclosed |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 440,191 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title runs to 78 characters, so search results will truncate it and the end of the sentence will not be read.
A meta description of 143 characters is present.
There are 3 H1 headings. One is conventional; several dilute the signal about what the page is primarily about.
All 40 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Care.com: Find Child Care, Babysitters, Senior Care, Pet Care and Housekeeping (78 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Get the help you need for your children, pets, elderly parents, home and lifestyle. Making it easier to find better care for your whole family. (143 chars) |
| H1 | Sarah (3 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.care.com/ |
| Open Graph title | Care.com: Find Child Care, Babysitters, Senior Care, Pet Care and Housekeeping |
| Headings / images | 6 H2s, 40 images (0 without alt text) |
Is care.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is
valid until 2026-12-03, which is 60 days from the date of this check. It covers
14 hostnames.
- www.care.com
- betreut.at
- betreut.ch
- betreut.de
- breedlove.com
- care.com
- cdn-care.com
- l.cdn-care.com
- partner.myhomepay.com
- s.cdn-care.com
- www.betreut.at
- www.betreut.ch
The certificate has 60 days left to run.
Which security headers does it set?
4 of 6 are set (HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy). Absent: Content Security Policy, Permissions-Policy.
With no Content Security Policy, any script that reaches the page — including one injected through a compromised third-party dependency — runs with full access to it.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload |
| Content Security Policy | no | — |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | yes | strict-origin-when-cross-origin |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for care.com?
| IP addresses | 23.50.131.140, 23.50.131.150 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | a23-50-131-140.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, a23-50-131-150.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com |
| Name servers | a1-41.akam.net, a20-65.akam.net, a28-66.akam.net, a13-64.akam.net, a6-64.akam.net, a5-67.akam.net |
| Mail (MX) | mxb-004bbc01.gslb.pphosted.com (pri 10), mxa-004bbc01.gslb.pphosted.com (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:spf1.care.com include:spf2.care.com ~all |
| TXT records | 42 |
care.com resolves to 2 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 2 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to a23-50-131-140.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, a23-50-131-150.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for care.com?
DNS is operated by Akamai rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail exchangers point at hosts that do not match any major provider, which usually means self-hosted or niche-provider mail.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about care.com?
1 of 1 externally hosted scripts carry no subresource integrity hash. If one of those hosts were compromised, the replacement script would run with full access to the page.
3 email addresses appear in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find them.
Can care.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to quarantine, so mail failing authentication is sent to spam rather than the inbox.
No CAA records are published, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for this domain.
The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. That is still the norm for most domains, but it means DNS answers cannot be cryptographically verified.
What else does care.com publish?
An ads.txt file is published with 5 entries, which means the site sells programmatic advertising and has declared who may resell its inventory.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 1,870 bytes and names
9 user-agent groups.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.care.com/alpha-omega-jobs.xml
- https://www.care.com/alpha-omega.xml
- https://www.care.com/alpha-omega-theta-cost-guide.xml
- https://www.care.com/alpha-omega-theta-campsandactivities-segmentations.xml
- https://www.care.com/alpha-omega-theta-general.xml
- https://www.care.com/c/sitemap_index.xml
- https://www.care.com/about/sitemap_index.xml
- https://www.care.com/business/sitemap_index.xml
AI crawler policy
robots.txt names no AI crawlers specifically, so they fall under whatever rule
applies to User-agent: *.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- Organization
- PostalAddress
- ContactPoint
- SiteNavigationElement
The homepage publishes 4 structured data types: Organization, PostalAddress, ContactPoint, SiteNavigationElement.
What does care.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 3 third-party hosts (acsbapp.com, betreut.at, betreut.de). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
2 cookies are set before any interaction (care_did, AKA_A2).
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| care_did | yes | no | none |
| AKA_A2 | yes | yes | none/unset |
Does care.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both care.com and www.care.com answer with 200 and neither redirects to the other. Search engines therefore see two complete copies of the site, and link equity is split between them unless a canonical tag resolves it.
How easily can care.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.care.com/alpha-omega-jobs.xml listing 2 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-10-04.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does care.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of care.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does care.com look when shared?
4 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: twitter:card.
The page declares 20 hreflang alternates (en-US, x-default, en-CA, en-GB, nl-NL, nl-BE, fr-BE, fr-FR, fr-CA, fi-FI, da-dk, sv-SE), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
40 images on the homepage, 33 of them lazy-loaded (83%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
The page pulls 1 external stylesheet and 43 external scripts, with 45 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Akamai edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is care.com accessible and current?
The page uses 3 landmark elements and 91 ARIA attributes.
There are 19 form inputs but only 18 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
The visible copyright notice reads 2007, 19 years behind the current year, which usually indicates the site is not actively maintained.
Can search engines index care.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
The homepage carries 283 internal and 10 external links across 10 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 1.9% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
The heading outline skips 8 levels, which breaks the document structure screen readers navigate by.
How is care.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store.
The TLS certificate also covers 1 subdomain: www.care.com.
- www.care.com
Frequently asked questions
Does care.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 4 of 6. The ones not present are: Content Security Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does care.com allow AI crawlers?
robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.
What is care.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Next.js. A site behind a CDN or rendered server-side may use more than it reveals.
Where does this data come from?
Every figure was measured by our own server on 4 October 2026: DNS lookups, one HTTPS request to the homepage, a TLS handshake and a request for robots.txt. No third-party SEO API is involved.
Is any of this traffic or authority data?
No. Traffic, authority and ranking figures cannot be measured by inspecting a domain, only modelled. Everything here is a direct observation.
I own care.com and want this page removed.
Ask through the contact page on this site, from an address at the domain, and the report will be taken down. It only ever shows what the domain already serves publicly.
Analysed 4 October 2026.
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