carnival.com describes itself as "Carnival cruise deals and cruise packages to the most popular destinations. Find great deals and specials on Caribbean, The Bahamas, Alaska, and Mexico cruises.". It was registered in 1994, served from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 4 of 6 common security headers.
What is carnival.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:
- shop ×6
- cruises ×5
- cruise ×5
- opens ×4
- window ×4
- sail ×4
- check ×4
- paradise ×4
- carnival ×3
- deals ×3
Does carnival.com publish the usual trust pages?
All four of the pages a established business normally publishes were found:
about, contact, privacy and terms.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does carnival.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 83% of them (median 467ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 64% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 91% of them |
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Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was carnival.com registered?
carnival.com was registered on 24 June 1994, which makes it about 32 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 23 June 2028.
The domain carries 3 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 24 June 1994 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 23 June 2028 |
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited |
Where is carnival.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The network is operated by Akamai International, BV (AS16625 Akamai Technologies, Inc.).
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 carnival.com running on?
No platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup of carnival.com. That usually means hand-written HTML, an uncommon stack, or a page assembled entirely at the edge.
No recognisable platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup.
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 186ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 32KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | nginx/1.29.7 |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 33,196 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title runs to 75 characters, so search results will truncate it and the end of the sentence will not be read.
A meta description of 160 characters is present.
No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.
All 4 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Cruises | Carnival Cruise Deals: Caribbean, The Bahamas, Alaska, and Mexico (75 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Carnival cruise deals and cruise packages to the most popular destinations. Find great deals and specials on Caribbean, The Bahamas, Alaska, and Mexico cruises. (160 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (0 on the page) |
| Canonical | not set |
| Open Graph title | not set |
| Headings / images | 0 H2s, 4 images (0 without alt text) |
Is carnival.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is
valid until 2027-04-14, which is 192 days from the date of this check. It covers
19 hostnames.
- carnival.com
- carnival.co.nz
- carnival.co.uk
- carnival.com.au
- failover.carnival.com
- funpass.carnival.com
- help.carnival.com.au
- m.carnival.com
- precruise.carnival.com
- prodpreview.carnival.com
- prodpreview.carnival.com.au
- secure.carnival.com
The certificate has 192 days left to run.
Which security headers does it set?
4 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options). Absent: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=2628000 ; includeSubDomains |
| Content Security Policy | yes | default-src https:; script-src 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https:; style-src 'unsafe-inline' https: blob:; img-src * d |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for carnival.com?
| IP addresses | 23.209.209.65 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | a23-209-209-65.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com |
| Name servers | usc4.akam.net, ns1-208.akam.net, asia2.akam.net, eur6.akam.net, use9.akam.net, usw1.akam.net, usw4.akam.net, ns1-136.akam.net |
| Mail (MX) | carnival-com.mail.protection.outlook.com (pri 100) |
| SPF | v=spf1 mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mail.zendesk.com ip4:205.220.182.197 ip4:205.220.170.197 ip4:23.251.237.159/32 ip4:23.251.237.160/29 ip4:23.251.237.168/30 ip4:151.124.248.17 ip4:151.124.248.18 ip4:151.124.250.249 -all |
| TXT records | 27 |
carnival.com resolves to a single address, so there is no DNS-level redundancy.
Mail is handled by 1 exchanger.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to a23-209-209-65.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for carnival.com?
DNS is operated by Akamai rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Microsoft 365.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
Can carnival.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to reject, the strictest setting: mail that fails authentication is refused outright. This is the configuration that actually stops domain spoofing.
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 does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 408 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.carnival.com/sitemap.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?
No JSON-LD or microdata was found on the homepage.
What does carnival.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 3 third-party hosts (carnival.com.au, cdn.optimizely.com, fonts.googleapis.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
6 cookies are set before any interaction (AKA_A2, ccl_origin, akavpau_www_carnival_maint_us, akacd_CarnivalCanary, _abck). 2 lack the Secure flag.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKA_A2 | yes | yes | none/unset |
| ccl_origin | no | no | none/unset |
| akavpau_www_carnival_maint_us | yes | yes | none |
| akacd_CarnivalCanary | yes | no | none |
| _abck | yes | no | none/unset |
| bm_sz | no | no | none/unset |
Does carnival.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both carnival.com and www.carnival.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 carnival.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.carnival.com/sitemap.xml listing 8 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-09-29.
A deliberately invalid URL returns HTTP 200 rather than 404. That is a soft 404: every mistyped or stale link becomes an indexable page, which inflates the site with duplicates.
What tracking does carnival.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of carnival.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does carnival.com look when shared?
No Open Graph or Twitter Card tags are present. Links shared to social platforms will fall back to whatever the platform can scrape, usually just a bare URL.
The page declares 3 hreflang alternates (en-us, x-default, en-au), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
4 images on the homepage, 0 of them lazy-loaded (0%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
No srcset attributes are used, so every device is served the same image size regardless of screen.
Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means every page view also contacts Google. Self-hosting removes that dependency.
The page pulls 11 external stylesheets and 19 external scripts, with 0 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Akamai edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is carnival.com accessible and current?
The page uses 0 landmark elements and 21 ARIA attributes.
There are 6 form inputs but only 0 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
Can search engines index carnival.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
No canonical URL is declared, which leaves duplicate addresses of this page to be resolved by the search engine.
The homepage carries 5 internal and 0 external links across 0 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 4.1% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is carnival.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: private, max-age=1060.
The TLS certificate also covers 6 subdomains: failover.carnival.com, funpass.carnival.com, m.carnival.com, precruise.carnival.com, prodpreview.carnival.com, secure.carnival.com.
- failover.carnival.com
- funpass.carnival.com
- m.carnival.com
- precruise.carnival.com
- prodpreview.carnival.com
- secure.carnival.com
Frequently asked questions
Does carnival.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 4 of 6. The ones not present are: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does carnival.com allow AI crawlers?
robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.
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 carnival.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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