cibc.com

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After conducting a thorough safety and legitimacy analysis, cibc.com receives a trust score of 77/100, which places it in the "Likely Safe" category. This score is calculated by evaluating multiple factors including SSL certificate validity, domain registration history, email authentication protocols, security header configuration, and blacklist status across major threat intelligence databases. The analysis identified several positive trust signals: a valid HTTPS connection protecting data in transit, HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) enforcement preventing protocol downgrade attacks, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) email authentication preventing email spoofing, DMARC email authentication with a reject policy — the strongest available setting, and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) providing cryptographic email verification. Areas of concern include: missing Referrer-Policy, potentially leaking URL information to third parties, the domain's WHOIS information is hidden behind a privacy service, making it harder to verify the owner's identity, and DNSSEC is not enabled, leaving DNS queries vulnerable to spoofing attacks. While these issues don't necessarily indicate malicious intent, they represent areas where the website's security posture could be improved. We checked cibc.com against 8 major blacklist databases including Google Safe Browsing, Phishtank, Urlhaus, Openphish, Dnsfilter, Spamhaus Dbl, Surbl, and Virustotal. The domain passed all 8 checks with a clean status, meaning it has not been flagged for phishing, malware distribution, spam, or other malicious activities by any of the tested threat intelligence providers.

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Our technology detection engine scanned cibc.com and identified 2 distinct technologies across 2 categories. This analysis is performed by examining HTTP response headers, HTML source code patterns, JavaScript library fingerprints, CSS framework signatures, and DNS records. CDN: Akamai — accelerates content delivery by caching assets at edge locations worldwide for cibc.com. JavaScript Library: jQuery — provides utility functions and DOM manipulation for cibc.com.

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cibc.com delivers its homepage in 11058ms (server response time), which is considered slow by industry standards. The total page weight is 345 KB, and we detected 423 resource requests loading assets from 9 third-party domains. A high number of third-party domains can significantly impact page load time due to additional DNS lookups and TLS handshakes required for each domain. The website uses Gzip compression for text-based assets, achieving an estimated 60.0% reduction in transfer size. This reduces bandwidth usage and improves page load times, especially for visitors on slower connections. Asset minification status: 5 out of 5 CSS files and 10 out of 13 JavaScript files are minified. Minifying the remaining 3 unminified file(s) could further reduce page weight by 10-30% for those assets. Minification is a best practice that reduces download sizes without affecting functionality. From an environmental perspective, each page view of cibc.com produces approximately 0.17g of CO₂, earning a carbon rating of B. This places the website among the cleanest on the web, demonstrating efficient use of server resources and optimized content delivery. For reference, the average web page produces about 0.5g of CO₂ per page view. The page weight of 345 KB is the primary factor in this calculation. Core Web Vitals data from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is not available for cibc.com. This typically means the site doesn't have enough real-world Chrome user traffic to generate statistically significant field data, or the domain is not included in the CrUX dataset. Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) are important Google ranking factors that measure real user experience.

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cibc.com resolves to the IPv4 address 2.16.241.225, but does not support IPv6. IPv6 adoption is increasingly important as IPv4 address space becomes exhausted, and some ISPs and regions are transitioning to IPv6-only connectivity. The domain has 2 A record(s) configured. The domain name system is managed by 6 name servers: a1-188.akam.net, a11-67.akam.net, a13-64.akam.net, a16-65.akam.net, a18-66.akam.net, and a26-67.akam.net. Having 6 name servers provides good redundancy — if one fails, the others can continue serving DNS queries. The choice of name servers often indicates the DNS hosting provider or CDN service being used. Email for cibc.com is handled by pphosted.com with 2 MX records configured: mxa-00146707.gslb.pphosted.com and mxb-00146707.gslb.pphosted.com. Multiple MX records provide failover redundancy — if the primary mail server is unavailable, email will be routed to the next available server. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is configured, which specifies which mail servers are authorized to send email on behalf of this domain. This helps prevent email spoofing and improves email deliverability. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) is configured with a reject policy — the strongest setting, instructing receiving servers to reject unauthorized emails entirely. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is configured, adding a cryptographic signature to outgoing emails that receiving servers can verify to confirm the email hasn't been tampered with in transit. DNSSEC is not enabled for cibc.com. While not critical for most websites, DNSSEC adds an important security layer by ensuring DNS responses haven't been tampered with during transit. Enabling DNSSEC is recommended for domains handling sensitive data or financial transactions. Our subdomain enumeration scan discovered 3 active subdomains for cibc.com: cdn.cibc.com, smtp.cibc.com, and www.cibc.com. Active subdomains can reveal the organization's infrastructure, including development environments, API endpoints, and third-party service integrations.

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The homepage of cibc.com contains 1,790 words of visible text content. This is a substantial amount of content that provides good opportunities for search engine indexing. The page is structured with 7 H2 headings, 11 H3 headings, 0 H4 headings. The page includes 53 images. 44 images (83%) are missing alt text attributes, which is a significant concern for both accessibility and SEO. Screen readers rely on alt text to describe images to visually impaired users, and search engines use alt text to understand image content. Only 17% of images have proper alt text — we recommend adding descriptive alt attributes to all images. The link structure consists of 305 internal links pointing to other pages on the same domain and 32 external links pointing to third-party websites. The high number of internal links suggests a well-interconnected site structure, which helps search engines discover and crawl all pages efficiently. There are 13 external JavaScript files, 5 CSS stylesheets, and 0 iframes on the page. Notable missing features: XML Sitemap, robots.txt, and Schema.org structured data. Adding these could improve search engine discoverability and rich result eligibility. We detected the following payment methods accepted on cibc.com: Visa and Discover. Offering multiple payment options including credit cards and digital wallets improves customer trust and can increase conversion rates. The website has social media presence across 6 platforms: Facebook (@cibc), Twitter (@cibc), Instagram (@cibc), Linkedin (@cibc), Youtube (@cibcvideos), and Tiktok (@cibc). An active social media presence is a positive trust indicator and helps build brand awareness and customer engagement.

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The title tag for cibc.com is well-optimized at 46 characters: "Personal Banking and Financial Services | CIBC". The length falls within the ideal range for Google search results, ensuring the full title is displayed without truncation. The meta description is 102 characters (well-optimized): "Bank on your terms with CIBC – whether it’s in person, over the phone or online, CIBC has you covered.". Google typically displays up to 155-160 characters of the meta description in search results. A compelling meta description with a clear call-to-action can significantly improve click-through rates from search results. The canonical url is correctly set to https://www.cibc.com/en/personal-banking.html, preventing duplicate content issues, the page language is declared as en, and a favicon is configured. Open Graph meta tags are configured with 2/4 recommended fields: OG image (social sharing thumbnail), OG type (article). These tags control how the page appears when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms that support the Open Graph protocol. The meta keywords tag contains 5 terms including Banking, online banking, personal banking, financial services, and banking products. Note: Google has officially confirmed that it does not use the meta keywords tag as a ranking signal. However, some other search engines (Bing, Yandex) may still reference it.

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Related domain discovery works by finding other websites that share the same IP address, Google Tag Manager container ID, Google Analytics property, or advertising pixel IDs with cibc.com. This data becomes available after batch-crawling the domain database — individual domain lookups cannot populate this section. No tracking IDs were detected on this page that could be used for cross-domain matching.