advocate.com
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer News & Politics
Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 7:00 PM · 6 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
The Advocate is the world’s leading source of LGBT news and information capturing the political and cultural conversations of the community through award-winning journalism, compelling photography and video, and vital… This website uses Nginx behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
Advocate.com
The Advocate is the world’s leading source of LGBT news and information capturing the political and cultural conversations of the community through award-winning journalism, compelling photography and video, and vital commentary for over 50 years.
Top issues to fix
5 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
454 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 25, 2026
- Overall
- 91
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 90
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Advocate.com
The Advocate is the world’s leading source of LGBT news and information capturing the political and cultural conversations of the community through award-winning journalism, compelling photography and video, and vital commentary for over 50 years.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer News & Politics
- Description
- The Advocate is the world’s leading source of LGBT news and information capturing the political and cultural conversations of the community through award-winning journalism, compelling photography and video, and vital commentary for over 50 years.
- Canonical
- https://www.advocate.com/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Fastly
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa
- Subject
- www.advocate.com
- Valid from
- Jun 13, 2026
- Valid to
- Dec 29, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 149
- SAN domains
- www.advocate.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 23 · H3 20
Links
70 internal · 20 external · 20 broken
Images
28 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
137 scripts · 0 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
79.7 KB · 198 KB
Page size
432 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://advocate.com
- Final URL
- https://www.advocate.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 446 ms
- HTML size
- 432 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://advocate.com → https://www.advocate.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does advocate.com use?
- advocate.com is built with Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is advocate.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. advocate.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 29, 2026.
- Who hosts advocate.com?
- Hosting provider information for advocate.com is not available yet.
- What is advocate.com's SEO score?
- advocate.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is advocate.com's overall website score?
- advocate.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates advocate.com?
- advocate.com is operated by Advocate.com. The Advocate is the world’s leading source of LGBT news and information capturing the political and cultural conversations of the community through award-winning journalism, compelling photography and video, and vital commentary for over 50 years.
- Has advocate.com's score changed over time?
- advocate.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 94 to 91) since Jul 25, 2026.
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