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Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.

Last scanned Aug 4, 2026, 1:00 PM · 8 views

82

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

    Security

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

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add 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

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

    Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

75

SEO

4 issue(s) found

85

Performance

381 ms

80

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

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

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Ars Technica
og:description
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
og:type
website
og:url
https://arstechnica.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Ars Technica
twitter:description
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

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.