Trader Corporation

autotrader.ca

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In its own wordsNew and Used Cars for Sale | AutoTrader.caVisit Canada's largest online automotive marketplace for new and used cars for sale. Buy or sell your car for free, compare car prices, read reviews, news and photos.

Trader Corporation (autotrader.ca) is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2000. It is built with Envoy; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #14,449 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #37,872

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#14,449list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#37,872list of 8 Oct 2026

Built with Envoy.

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    Evidence · response header
    x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 37
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Everything else it uses (17)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Advertising and more.

Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

3 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

  • Domain registered11 Oct 2000, 26 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: Trader CorporationPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Ad Manager, Amazon AdsNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
  • Domain registered11 Oct 2000, 26 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings3 of 6 in placePartly
  • Email protectionPartly protected against forged emailPartlyDNS records

A second opinion on its security setup: Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory grades the site when you open it. Ten checks before you buy · A signal looks wrong? Report it

What it is

Website Summary

It calls itself “New and Used Cars for Sale | AutoTrader.ca”.

In its own wordsNew and Used Cars for Sale | AutoTrader.caVisit Canada's largest online automotive marketplace for new and used cars for sale. Buy or sell your car for free, compare car prices, read reviews, news and photos.

The page doesn’t show enough to say what kind of site it is (a shop, a blog, an app…).

Who is behind it

  • structured dataTrader Corporation
  • copyright lineTRADER Corporation

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and copyright line.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 714
"name": "Trader Corporation"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 714
© Copyright TRADER Corporation.
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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

AI use

  • AI training: asks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and 3 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks PerplexityBot and Google-CloudVertexBot to stay away.
Show evidence (9)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 8
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 9
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 10
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 11
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 12
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 20
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 22
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 13
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 21
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
Trader Corporation
Language
English (en-CA)
What it tells search engines
Organization

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationAutoTrader

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

No AI builder traces found.

Coding tools such as Cursor leave no traces, so this doesn’t mean a person made it.

AI traces: None found

How we know

AI site builders leave traces in the sites they make. We look for the traces of 53 of them and show every match with the line it came from, so you can check it yourself.

We test this on 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

How we test it · Every builder we know · How to tell if a site was built with AI

Score breakdown

Site Score

92 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.

92OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 26 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · tells search engines what it is

A high score isn’t a promise that a business is honest. How the score works.

Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 2000.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. This scanCheckAnySite

The web archive couldn’t be reached; we’ll ask it again. Why can this be empty?

Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
This is our first scan of the site.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

  • Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
  • With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
  • Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.
This scan, in numbers

928 checks on 27 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

Questions about autotrader.ca

What is autotrader.ca?

Trader Corporation describes itself: “Visit Canada's largest online automotive marketplace for new and used cars for sale. Buy or sell your car for free, compare car prices, read reviews, news and photos.” See the evidence

How old is autotrader.ca?

Its domain was registered on 11 Oct 2000, 26 years ago. See the evidence

What is autotrader.ca built with?

It is built with Envoy; we found 18 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is autotrader.ca?

It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence

Was autotrader.ca made with AI?

We found no traces of an AI site builder. That doesn’t prove a person built it: AI coding assistants leave no traces. See the evidence

Who is behind autotrader.ca?

Trader Corporation, named by its structured data and its copyright line. See the evidence

More sites near it in popularity

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 27 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

What this scan can’t tell you
  • Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
  • How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
  • Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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