boards.net
Free Forum & Free Message Board Hosting | ProBoards
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:17 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Summary
Unlimited members, unlimited threads, unlimited size! Build the discussion forum of your dreams with ProBoards' award-winning free forum hosting service. This website is hosted on Fastly. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.
Unlimited members, unlimited threads, unlimited size! Build the discussion forum of your dreams with ProBoards' award-winning free forum hosting service.
- United States
- Hosted on Fastly
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing canonical link
SEOAdd <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
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.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
346 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Unlimited members, unlimited threads, unlimited size! Build the discussion forum of your dreams with ProBoards' award-winning free forum hosting service.
Meta tags
- Title
- Free Forum & Free Message Board Hosting | ProBoards
- Description
- Unlimited members, unlimited threads, unlimited size! Build the discussion forum of your dreams with ProBoards' award-winning free forum hosting service.
- Canonical
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
No technologies detected.
Hosting & CDN
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
- proboards.com
- Valid from
- Jul 19, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 17, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 80
- SAN domains
- *.proboards.com, proboards.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 2 · H3 3
Links
32 internal · 20 external · 7 broken
Images
10 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
9 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
724 KB · 150 KB
Page size
40.2 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Missing canonical link
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://boards.net
- Final URL
- https://www.proboards.com
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 346 ms
- HTML size
- 40.2 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://boards.net → https://www.proboards.com
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does boards.net use?
- We did not detect any specific technologies for boards.net in the latest scan.
- Is boards.net secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. boards.net uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 17, 2026.
- Who hosts boards.net?
- boards.net is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is boards.net's SEO score?
- boards.net scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is boards.net's overall website score?
- boards.net has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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