petsmart.com — domain analysis

What is petsmart.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:

• type ×2460
• link ×2012
• linktype ×1497
• space ×996
• environment ×996
• contenttype ×996
• next ×854
• static ×821
• chunks ×818
• false ×683

Does petsmart.com publish the usual trust pages?

None of about, contact, privacy or terms could be found at their usual addresses.
That is common for small or single-purpose sites, and it is also what a disposable
site looks like, so it is worth noting rather than concluding from.

These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.

How does petsmart.com compare with other domains analysed here?

Measured against the 73 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.

Related domains in this index

Analysed domains built on a similar stack:

• appspatched.com
• peacock.com

Other analysed domains served from the same country:

• apple.com.tr
• erone.com
• freefirenamestyle.com
• kcu.com
• mocospace.com
• movisda.com
• perfectgift.com
• poptox.com

When was petsmart.com registered?

petsmart.com was registered on 19 July 1995, which makes it about 31 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 18 July 2028.

The domain carries 3 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.

Where is petsmart.com hosted?

The first address resolves to infrastructure in Lehi, United States.

The network is operated by Vercara, LLC (AS12008 Vercara, LLC).

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 petsmart.com running on?

petsmart.com exposes 2 identifiable technologies: Next.js, X-Powered-By: 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
• X-Powered-By: Next.js

How does the homepage respond?

The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTP.

At 552ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.

The HTML alone is 644KB before images, stylesheets or scripts are counted, which is heavy for a document that browsers must parse before anything renders.

The HTML is compressed with gzip.

What does the homepage say about itself?

The title is 63 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.

A meta description of 147 characters is present.

1 of 54 images carry no alt attribute, which leaves them unreadable to screen readers and uninterpretable to image search.

Is petsmart.com served over a valid certificate?

No TLS certificate could be read on port 443. The site may serve HTTP only, or block direct TLS connections.

Which security headers does it set?

2 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy). Absent: X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.

How is DNS configured for petsmart.com?

petsmart.com resolves to a single address, so there is no DNS-level redundancy.

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 crs.ultradns.net, which usually names the hosting provider.

Who runs DNS and mail for petsmart.com?

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 petsmart.com?

The server discloses software detail in x-powered-by, which tells an attacker what to target without them having to probe for it.

Can petsmart.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.

CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 6 named authorities (issue sectigo.com, issuewild ;, iodef mailto:[email protected], issue digicert.com), so no other CA should be able to issue 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?

No robots.txt was served. Crawlers treat a missing file as permission to crawl
everything, so this is an open crawl policy by default rather than a blocked one.

What structured data does the homepage publish?

• WebSite
• Organization
• PostalAddress

The homepage publishes 3 structured data types: WebSite, Organization, PostalAddress.

What does petsmart.com load from third parties?

The homepage pulls resources from 11 third-party hosts (a42cdn.usablenet.com, cdn.branch.io, cdn.cookielaw.org, cdn.optimizely.com, checkoutshopper-live.adyen.com, googletagmanager.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.

4 cookies are set before any interaction (x-petm-visitor-id, x-petm-decisions, _abck, bm_sz). 3 lack the Secure flag.

The page links or refers to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.

Does petsmart.com settle on one address?

Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.

Both petsmart.com and www.petsmart.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 petsmart.com be crawled?

No readable sitemap was found, so crawlers have to discover every page by following links.

What tracking does petsmart.com run?

No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of petsmart.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.

How does petsmart.com look when shared?

3 of 5 social preview tags are set. Missing: og:image, og:type.

The page declares 2 hreflang alternates (en-US, en-CA), so it targets more than one language or region.

How are images, fonts and scripts handled?

54 images on the homepage, 1 of them lazy-loaded (2%).

All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.

The page pulls 18 external stylesheets and 29 external scripts, with 28 carrying defer or async.

Responses carry Akamai and Vercel edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.

Is petsmart.com accessible and current?

The page uses 14 landmark elements and 40 ARIA attributes.

No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.

Can search engines index petsmart.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 88 internal and 17 external links across 10 outside hosts.

Visible text makes up 81.1% of the HTML.

How is petsmart.com delivered?

The HTML is served with Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate.

A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.

Analysed 5 October 2026.
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