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bellingcat.com

bellingcat - the home of online investigations

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:17 AM · 2 views

84

Overall score

Great

Summary

This website uses WordPress hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

United States
Hosted on Cloudflare

Products & pricing

Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.

The truth belongs to everyone. Help us find it.

$1,000 USD

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 3 high priority

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

    Security

    Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

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

  • Missing meta description

    SEO

    Add a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

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

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

85

SEO

2 issue(s) found

90

Performance

1.38 s

65

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
bellingcat - the home of online investigations
Description
Canonical
https://www.bellingcat.com/
Language
en-GB
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1
Robots meta
index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
Manifest
https://www.bellingcat.com/app/themes/bellingcat/assets/icons/favicons/manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
bellingcat - the home of online investigations
og:description
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.bellingcat.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Cloudflare
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
172.66.172.84
ASN
AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 172.66.172.84
  • 104.20.30.192
AAAA
  • 2606:4700:10::ac42:ac54
  • 2606:4700:10::6814:1ec0
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
bellingcat.com
Valid from
Jul 24, 2026
Valid to
Oct 22, 2026
Days until expiry
88
SAN domains
bellingcat.com, *.bellingcat.com

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
  • Content-Security-PolicyMissing
  • X-Frame-OptionsMissing
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
  • Referrer-PolicyEnabled
  • Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 15 · H2 0 · H3 0

Links

75 internal · 26 external · 2 broken

Images

63 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

10 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

2.2 KB · 20.0 KB

Page size

115 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
9
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
-1

SEO issues

  • Missing meta description
  • Multiple H1 headings found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://bellingcat.com
Final URL
https://www.bellingcat.com/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.37 s
HTML size
115 KB
Redirect chain
https://bellingcat.com → https://www.bellingcat.com/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does bellingcat.com use?
bellingcat.com is built with PHP, WordPress, jQuery, Plausible Analytics.
Is bellingcat.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. bellingcat.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 22, 2026.
Who hosts bellingcat.com?
bellingcat.com is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
What is bellingcat.com's SEO score?
bellingcat.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is bellingcat.com's overall website score?
bellingcat.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What products does bellingcat.com offer?
bellingcat.com offers The truth belongs to everyone. Help us find it..