arstechnica.co.uk
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
Last scanned Aug 4, 2026, 1:00 PM · 8 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance good (85/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
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.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
381 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
+16 overall since Jul 27, 2026
- Overall
- 82
- SEO
- 75
- Security
- 80
- Performance
- 85
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Meta tags
- Title
- Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
- Description
- News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
- Canonical
- https://arstechnica.com/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-snippet:-1,max-image-preview:large,max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.2
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- *.arstechnica.com
- Valid from
- Jun 25, 2026
- Valid to
- Jan 8, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 157
- SAN domains
- *.arstechnica.com, arstechnica.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 0
Links
0 internal · 0 external · 0 broken
Images
0 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
8 scripts · 4 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.6 MB · 9.1 KB
Page size
1.9 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://arstechnica.co.uk
- Final URL
- https://arstechnica.com//
- HTTP status
- 202
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 381 ms
- HTML size
- 1.9 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://arstechnica.co.uk → https://arstechnica.com//
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does arstechnica.co.uk use?
- arstechnica.co.uk is built with WordPress, jQuery.
- Is arstechnica.co.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. arstechnica.co.uk uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Jan 8, 2027.
- Who hosts arstechnica.co.uk?
- Hosting provider information for arstechnica.co.uk is not available yet.
- What is arstechnica.co.uk's SEO score?
- arstechnica.co.uk scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is arstechnica.co.uk's overall website score?
- arstechnica.co.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has arstechnica.co.uk's score changed over time?
- arstechnica.co.uk's overall score has improved by 16 points (from 66 to 82) since Jul 27, 2026.
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