backpacker.com
Backpacker Magazine | Camping - Hiking - Gear - Skills
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:47 AM
Overall score
Great
Summary
Backpacker is the expert source for all things backpacking. This website uses WordPress behind Vercel CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance fair (70/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
Backpacker is the expert source for all things backpacking. Trail guides, gear reviews, backcountry skills, and much more.
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 2 high priority
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.
Slow estimated load (13.4s)
PerformanceUse a CDN, enable caching/compression, and cut render-blocking assets — every extra second costs conversions.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
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
13.37 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Backpacker is the expert source for all things backpacking. Trail guides, gear reviews, backcountry skills, and much more.
Meta tags
- Title
- Backpacker Magazine | Camping - Hiking - Gear - Skills
- Description
- Backpacker is the expert source for all things backpacking. Trail guides, gear reviews, backcountry skills, and much more.
- Canonical
- https://www.backpacker.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Vercel
- 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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- www.backpacker.com
- Valid from
- Jul 17, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 15, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 81
- SAN domains
- www.backpacker.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 25 · H3 28
Links
92 internal · 7 external · 20 broken
Images
22 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
49 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
201 KB · 13.1 KB
Page size
350 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://backpacker.com
- Final URL
- https://www.backpacker.com/featured?scope=anon
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 13.36 s
- HTML size
- 350 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://backpacker.com → https://www.backpacker.com/ → https://accounts.outsideonline.com/oidc/o/authorize/?prompt=none&response_type=code%20id_token&response_mode=query&state=%7B%22token%22%3A%22c1ce2842ad2b13e61ebf8e1b1129dfccc3784e181c067887b663e509a14ac0ec5d8c1d4931afc741369ae70f543c082f370efaad834f0d28d635d4aef38f8abbc18e4ec11c730a14c10fe54bfde9fcb0dd4131879a12cefd5a94ee16206f7d047629a7b43c08ef34bb3ec73315a7551dffc0d72062e69a550858bc90527b302899f8ae0e%22%2C%22iv%22%3A%2272d54aae597e04c317d007ca%22%7D&nonce=a18e0644-8f4c-41a7-8991-3ec7ada1cccd&client_id=zW6ji0kF1tAJjnFx9Ey9xtRlS7AHK6dpgbkmtNrf&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.backpacker.com%2Fauthorize → https://www.backpacker.com/authorize?error=login_required&state=%7B%22token%22%3A%22c1ce2842ad2b13e61ebf8e1b1129dfccc3784e181c067887b663e509a14ac0ec5d8c1d4931afc741369ae70f543c082f370efaad834f0d28d635d4aef38f8abbc18e4ec11c730a14c10fe54bfde9fcb0dd4131879a12cefd5a94ee16206f7d047629a7b43c08ef34bb3ec73315a7551dffc0d72062e69a550858bc90527b302899f8ae0e%22%2C%22iv%22%3A%2272d54aae597e04c317d007ca%22%7D → https://www.backpacker.com/featured?scope=anon
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does backpacker.com use?
- backpacker.com is built with WordPress.
- Is backpacker.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. backpacker.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 15, 2026.
- Who hosts backpacker.com?
- Hosting provider information for backpacker.com is not available yet.
- What is backpacker.com's SEO score?
- backpacker.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is backpacker.com's overall website score?
- backpacker.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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