Contact name & title
Top decision-makers' names and titles as listed on the corporate web site (up to 5 contacts).
Standard industry classification (SIC)
A SIC code is a four digit number that classifies business establishments by defining the industries in which they do business. There exist over 5,000 individual SIC codes. Many of our business records are assigned up to 2 industry codes.
Number of employees
The minimum number of persons employed at the company or one of its offices.
Annual sales
The minimum annual sales volume for a business or one of its offices.
Hosting type
This feature indicates whether a company has its web site hosted on a web server shared with other companies, or on a dedicated server managed by the hosting company, or on a self-managed server (located in house or collocated on the premises of the hosting company).
Primary hosting provider
This field identifies the name and/or domain name of the firm that directly owns the web server where the web site is located. In many cases, this firm is a web hosting company.
Three categories of primary and secondary hosting providers can be identified: hosting company, subsidiary, and reselller. An hosting company is defined as a business that owns one or more blocks of IP addresses and provides web hosting services. A subsidiary is a hosting provider that is part of or owned by another hosting company. A reseller is a hosting provider that does not own their blocks of IP addresses and relies on the IP addresses of another company.
Secondary hosting provider
The name and/or domain name of the web hosting firm that manages the web site of the business when the primary hosting provider is not a hosting company.
Web server type
The type of web server software used to run the company’s web site (e.g., Apache, Microsoft IIS, etc.).
Web server operating system
The type operating system used on the web server hosting the company’s web site (e.g., Windows, Linux, Free BSD, etc.).
Domain name server 1 & 2
The names of up to two servers that translate the company domain name into the corresponding IP address. The DNS service is often offered by the hosting or network provider of the company.
Domain name server owner 1 & 2
The name and/or domain of the company which owns or manage a given domain name server.
IP address
This output field identifies a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address for the domain name owned by the company (e.g., 63.104.213.255).
Default web site
The domain associated by default to the IP address. When the IP address is provided to an Internet browser it will lead to the default web site if any.
Reverse DNS lookup domain
It corresponds to the Internet domain returned by a domain name server lookup for this IP address if any. It permits to relate a given IP address to a domain name.
Number of web sites
Minimum number of active web sites using this IP address.
IP provider
Name of the organization allocating this IP address. Possible values: ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers), RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens), APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre), and LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry).
IP block owner
The IP Block Owner provides the name and/or domain of the company owning the block of addresses in which the IP is located.
Block size
Number of distinct IP addresses available on a given IP block.
Block start
First IP address marking the start of the block where the IP address is located.
Block end
Last IP address marking the end of the block where the IP address is located.
Web site complexity
This classification indicates the degree of complexity of the companies' web sites based on the types of dynamic page generation technologies used. A web site with only static web pages is considered to have low complexity. Web sites using high-end server-side technologies such as jsp, .net, Lotus Domino, and servlets are classified as having very high complexity.
Web site maintenance
The degree of maintenance of a web site is assessed based on the number of broken links it contains. Poorly maintained sites have 10% or more of broken links. A very good maintenance level corresponds to less than 1% of broken links and a good maintenance has more than 1% but less than 5% of broken links.
Number of broken links
Number of broken links found on the web site.
Web site popularity
Web site popularity is based on the number of sites that link to a given web site. For instance, a web site referred by less than 20 sites is considered to have low popularity. On the other hand, sites receiving over 100 links are assigned a high popularity.
Number of incoming links
Approximate number of distinct Internet domains that have a hyperlink to the company web site. The count only includes referral sites from the generic domains (e.g., .com, .org, .net, .biz) as well as .ca and .us.
Web site size level
Web sites are classified as large, medium, or small. Sites exceeding 125 pages are classified as large and sites with less than 21 pages are considered small. This classification does not take into account that some sites can provide a large number of pages dynamically generated from visitors' requests (e.g., search engine sites).
Number of web pages
Number of web pages of the site up to a maximum of 150.
Total web site size
Total size of the web site in Kb including all distinct images.
Average web page size
Average size in Kb of a web page (total web site size divided by the number of web pages).
Number of distinct images
Total number of different images displayed on the web site.
Total image size
Total size of all the distinct images in Kb.
Average image size
Average size of the images in Kb (total image size divided by the number of distinct images).
Document types
This field lists which of the following rich document types are used on the company web site: Acrobat pdf files, Microsoft Office documents, XML files, standard ASCII text file, or archives (e.g., .zip, .tar). This field is marked as "Not available" if no such document is found on the first 150 visited pages of a large web site.
Audio types
This attribute indicates what type of audio media files, if any, are present on the business web site (e.g., wav, mp3). This field is marked as "Not available" if no audio files is found on the first 150 visited pages of a large web site.
Video types
This field indicates what type of video file format, if any, are present on the business web site (e.g., avi, mpg). This field is marked as "Not available" if no video files is found on the first 150 visited pages of a large web site.
Server side technologies
This feature specifies the programming languages and technologies used on the web server to produce dynamic content based on users' requests (e.g., JSP, ASP, etc.).
Client side technologies
This feature specifies the types of programming languages used to interact with the browser of the web site visitors (e.g., JavaScript, VBScript, etc). This field is marked as "Not available" if none of these client side technologies are found on the first 150 visited pages of a large web site.
Web database presence
This field indicates if the web site of a company is connected to one or several database(s). This field is marked as "Not available" if no database indicators is found on the first 150 visited pages of a large web site.
E-Commerce enabled
This feature indicates if a company accepts electronic transactions on its web site. This field is marked as "Not available" if no e-commerce capabilites are found on the first 150 visited pages of a large web site. It should be noted that e-commerce capabilities hidden behind order forms are not detected.
Shopping cart usage
This flag indicates if the company provides online shopping carts for e-commerce transactions. This field is marked as "Not available" if no shopping cart indicators are found on the first 150 visited pages of a large web site.
Credit cards accepted
Type of credit cards accepted online (e.g., Visa, Mastercard, etc.). This field is marked as "Not available" if no credit card indicators are found on the first 150 visited pages of a large web site.