Skip to main content
SGSiteGraph

addgene.org

Addgene: Powering Scientific Sharing

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:47 AM

82

Overall score

Great

Summary

Addgene is a nonprofit repository for plasmids, viral vectors, and recombinant antibodies, plus educational resources, material transfer services, and direct scientist support for researchers worldwide. This website uses Cloudflare Analytics hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Addgene is a nonprofit repository for plasmids, viral vectors, and recombinant antibodies, plus educational resources, material transfer services, and direct scientist support for researchers worldwide.

United States
Hosted on Cloudflare

Top issues to fix

9 issues found · 2 high priority

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

    Security

    Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • 1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • Missing canonical link

    SEO

    Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

+3 more issues — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

90

Performance

349 ms

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Addgene is a nonprofit repository for plasmids, viral vectors, and recombinant antibodies, plus educational resources, material transfer services, and direct scientist support for researchers worldwide.

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
Addgene: Powering Scientific Sharing
Description
Addgene is a nonprofit repository for plasmids, viral vectors, and recombinant antibodies, plus educational resources, material transfer services, and direct scientist support for researchers worldwide.
Canonical
Language
en-US
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Cloudflare
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
172.66.43.190
ASN
AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 172.66.43.190
  • 172.66.40.66
AAAA
  • 2606:4700:3108::ac42:2842
  • 2606:4700:3108::ac42:2bbe
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
www.addgene.org
Valid from
Jul 13, 2026
Valid to
Oct 11, 2026
Days until expiry
76
SAN domains
www.addgene.org

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
  • Content-Security-PolicyMissing
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
  • Referrer-PolicyMissing
  • Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 8 · H3 10

Links

102 internal · 49 external · 0 broken

Images

96 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

16 scripts · 14 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

105 KB · 596 KB

Page size

212 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
3
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • Missing canonical link
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://addgene.org
Final URL
https://www.addgene.org/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
345 ms
HTML size
212 KB
Redirect chain
https://addgene.org → https://www.addgene.org/

See something wrong on this report? Request a correction

Frequently asked questions

What technology does addgene.org use?
addgene.org is built with Django, Cloudflare Analytics.
Is addgene.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. addgene.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 11, 2026.
Who hosts addgene.org?
addgene.org is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
What is addgene.org's SEO score?
addgene.org scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is addgene.org's overall website score?
addgene.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.