arstechnica.com
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Fair
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 3 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
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.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
Summary
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems. This website uses WordPress hosted on AWS. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance good (85/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
244 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/contact
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
- AWS
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 18.226.12.2
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA | — |
| MX |
|
| TXT | — |
| NS |
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| 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
- 174
- SAN domains
- *.arstechnica.com, arstechnica.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- 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
1.7 MB · 157 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
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://arstechnica.com
- Final URL
- https://arstechnica.com
- HTTP status
- 202
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 244 ms
- HTML size
- 1.9 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://arstechnica.com
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does arstechnica.com use?
- arstechnica.com is built with WordPress, jQuery.
- Is arstechnica.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. arstechnica.com uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Jan 8, 2027.
- Who hosts arstechnica.com?
- arstechnica.com is hosted on AWS.
- What is arstechnica.com's SEO score?
- arstechnica.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is arstechnica.com's overall website score?
- arstechnica.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 78/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is arstechnica.com hiring?
- arstechnica.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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