babbletype.com — domain analysis
babbletype.com describes itself as "Babbletype is a transcription, translation and content analysis firm serving the market research industry. With over 10 million minutes of audio transcribed, the company has been…". It is built on Squarespace, registered in 2009, served from New York, United States. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 2 of 6 common security headers, 1 tracking script.
What is babbletype.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:
- nbsp ×24
- babbletype ×12
- content ×12
- audio ×8
- translation ×7
- market ×6
- research ×5
- minute ×5
- language ×5
- faster ×4
Does babbletype.com publish the usual trust pages?
Found: about, contact, privacy. Not found at the usual addresses:
terms.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does babbletype.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 11 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 82% of them (median 236ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 44% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 50% of them |
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Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was babbletype.com registered?
babbletype.com was registered on 21 May 2009, which makes it about 17 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 Network Solutions, LLC.
Registration runs until 21 May 2028.
The domain carries 1 registry lock, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 21 May 2009 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 21 May 2028 |
| Registrar | Network Solutions, LLC |
| Registry status | client transfer prohibited |
Where is babbletype.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in New York, United States.
The network is operated by Squarespace, Inc. (AS53831 Squarespace, 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 babbletype.com running on?
babbletype.com exposes 1 identifiable technology: Squarespace.
- Squarespace
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 114ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 172KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | Squarespace |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 176,033 bytes |
| Declared language | en-US |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is only 10 characters, which is short enough that it probably is not describing the page so much as naming it.
The meta description is 264 characters and will be cut short in most result layouts.
There are 7 H1 headings. One is conventional; several dilute the signal about what the page is primarily about.
All 16 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Babbletype (10 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Babbletype is a transcription, translation and content analysis firm serving the market research industry. With over 10 million minutes of audio transcribed, the company has been a trusted industry resource for over 20 years. Babbletype is located in Philadelphia. (264 chars) |
| H1 | Get to Your Report Faster (7 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://babbletype.com |
| Open Graph title | Babbletype |
| Headings / images | 1 H2s, 16 images (0 without alt text) |
Is babbletype.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Let's Encrypt and is
valid until 2026-12-22, which is 78 days from the date of this check. It covers
1 hostname.
- babbletype.com
The certificate has 78 days left to run.
It covers 1 hostname, so it was issued for this site specifically.
Let's Encrypt certificates are free and run on 90-day terms, so this site is almost certainly renewing automatically.
Which security headers does it set?
2 of 6 are set (HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options). Absent: Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-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=15552000 |
| Content Security Policy | no | — |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | no | — |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for babbletype.com?
| IP addresses | 198.185.159.144, 198.185.159.145, 198.49.23.144, 198.49.23.145 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 198.185.159.144, 198.185.159.145 |
| Name servers | ns6.worldnic.com, ns5.worldnic.com |
| Mail (MX) | aspmx3.googlemail.com (pri 10), alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), aspmx.l.google.com (pri 1), aspmx2.googlemail.com (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all |
| TXT records | 1 |
babbletype.com resolves to 4 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 5 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to 198.185.159.144, 198.185.159.145, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for babbletype.com?
Mail is handled by Google Workspace.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about babbletype.com?
5 of 5 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.
4 email addresses appear in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find them.
Can babbletype.com be spoofed in email?
No DMARC record is published, so there is no instruction telling receiving servers what to do with mail that fails authentication. In practice that means forged mail from this domain is likely to be delivered.
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 1,505 bytes and names
30 user-agent groups.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://babbletype.com/sitemap.xml
AI crawler policy
| Crawler | Policy |
|---|---|
| gptbot | allowed |
| claudebot | allowed |
| google-extended | allowed |
| ccbot | allowed |
| applebot-extended | allowed |
| bytespider | allowed |
| anthropic-ai | allowed |
1 sitemap is declared in robots.txt, which gives crawlers a direct list of URLs.
Named AI crawlers are explicitly allowed (gptbot, claudebot, google-extended, ccbot, applebot-extended, bytespider, anthropic-ai).
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- WebSite
- Organization
- LocalBusiness
The homepage publishes 3 structured data types: WebSite, Organization, LocalBusiness.
What does babbletype.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 7 third-party hosts (assets.squarespace.com, definitions.sqspcdn.com, file.squarespace-cdn.com, images.squarespace-cdn.com, p.typekit.net, static1.squarespace.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
1 cookie is set before any interaction (crumb).
6 resources are referenced over plain HTTP on an HTTPS page, which browsers block or flag as mixed content.
The page links or refers to LinkedIn, Facebook.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| crumb | yes | no | none/unset |
Does babbletype.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
The www address redirects to https://babbletype.com/, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can babbletype.com be crawled?
A sitemap is served at https://babbletype.com/sitemap.xml listing 89 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-09-17.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does babbletype.com run?
1 tracking script detected: Meta Pixel.
No consent management platform was detected alongside them. Where GDPR or the ePrivacy Directive applies, analytics and advertising scripts generally need consent before they load.
How does babbletype.com look when shared?
All five social preview tags are present, so links shared to social platforms and chat apps will render with a title, description and image.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
16 images on the homepage, 12 of them lazy-loaded (75%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
The page pulls 5 external stylesheets and 15 external scripts, with 15 carrying defer or async.
Is babbletype.com accessible and current?
The page uses 5 landmark elements and 19 ARIA attributes.
There are 6 form inputs but only 5 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.
Can search engines index babbletype.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 154 internal and 20 external links across 11 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 4.7% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
The heading outline skips 6 levels, which breaks the document structure screen readers navigate by.
How is babbletype.com delivered?
No Cache-Control header is sent for the HTML, so caching behaviour is left to browser defaults.
Frequently asked questions
Does babbletype.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 2 of 6. The ones not present are: Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does babbletype.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 babbletype.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Squarespace. 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 babbletype.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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