startpage.com

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After conducting a thorough safety and legitimacy analysis, startpage.com receives a trust score of 79/100, 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, DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) providing cryptographic email verification, and DNSSEC providing authenticated DNS responses. Areas of concern include: the domain's WHOIS information is hidden behind a privacy service, making it harder to verify the owner's identity. While these issues don't necessarily indicate malicious intent, they represent areas where the website's security posture could be improved. We checked startpage.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 startpage.com and identified 3 distinct technologies across 3 categories. This analysis is performed by examining HTTP response headers, HTML source code patterns, JavaScript library fingerprints, CSS framework signatures, and DNS records. Framework: Gatsby — provides the application framework and routing for startpage.com. UI Library: React — handles the user interface rendering and component management for startpage.com. Build Tool: Webpack — bundles and optimizes the JavaScript and CSS assets for startpage.com.

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startpage.com delivers its homepage in 18874ms (server response time), which is considered slow by industry standards. The total page weight is 59 KB, and we detected 74 resource requests loading assets from 0 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: 0 out of 0 CSS files and 0 out of 9 JavaScript files are minified. Minifying the remaining 9 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 startpage.com produces approximately 0.03g of CO₂, earning a carbon rating of A. 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 59 KB is the primary factor in this calculation. Core Web Vitals data from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is not available for startpage.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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startpage.com resolves to the IPv4 address 67.63.59.232, 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 1 A record(s) configured. The domain name system is managed by 4 name servers: dns1.p01.nsone.net, dns2.p01.nsone.net, dns3.p01.nsone.net, and dns4.p01.nsone.net. Having 4 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 startpage.com is handled by Google Workspace with 5 MX records configured: aspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com, and alt2.aspmx.l.google.com and 2 more. 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 enabled for startpage.com, providing an additional layer of security by cryptographically signing DNS records. This prevents DNS cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks that could redirect visitors to malicious websites. Our subdomain enumeration scan discovered 4 active subdomains for startpage.com: app.startpage.com, cdn.startpage.com, support.startpage.com, and www.startpage.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 startpage.com contains 215 words of visible text content. This is a relatively short page — adding more descriptive content could improve search engine visibility. The page is structured with 0 H2 headings, 0 H3 headings, 3 H4 headings. The page includes 3 images. 2 images (67%) 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 33% of images have proper alt text — we recommend adding descriptive alt attributes to all images. The link structure consists of 8 internal links pointing to other pages on the same domain and 6 external links pointing to third-party websites. There are 9 external JavaScript files, 0 CSS stylesheets, and 0 iframes on the page. The site implements the following web standards and features: robots.txt (controls search engine crawling behavior). Notable missing features: XML Sitemap and Schema.org structured data. Adding these could improve search engine discoverability and rich result eligibility.

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The title tag for startpage.com is good at 17 characters: "Startpage Captcha". The length is acceptable, though it may be slightly truncated in some search result displays. The meta description is 24 characters (acceptable): "Startpage's captcha page". 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 /en/, preventing duplicate content issues, the page language is declared as en, the meta robots directive is set to max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1, and a favicon is configured. Open Graph meta tags are configured with 4/4 recommended fields: OG title ("Startpage Captcha..."), OG description, OG image (social sharing thumbnail), OG type (website). These tags control how the page appears when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms that support the Open Graph protocol. A Twitter Card of type summary is configured, which controls how links appear when shared on Twitter/X. The "summary" type displays a large image preview, which typically generates higher engagement rates than the basic card type.

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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 startpage.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.

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This section shows additional intelligence about startpage.com including data breach history (via HaveIBeenPwned), web archive history (Wayback Machine), green/eco-friendly hosting status, and mobile app presence in the iOS App Store.