What technology does bostonglobe.com use?

bostonglobe.com is built with Google Analytics, Meta Pixel.

Is bostonglobe.com secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. bostonglobe.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 6, 2026.

Who hosts bostonglobe.com?

Hosting provider information for bostonglobe.com is not available yet.

What is bostonglobe.com's SEO score?

bostonglobe.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).

What is bostonglobe.com's overall website score?

bostonglobe.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 76/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

bostonglobe.com

The Boston Globe | New England news, weather and sports

Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM · 1 view

Overall score

Fair

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 2 high priority

Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
Security
Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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-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.
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.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

Summary

New England’s largest news organization delivering trusted news, analysis, and insight for more than 150 years. This website uses Google Analytics. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance fair (60/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.

SEO

3 issue(s) found

Performance

1.40 s

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 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.

Facebook X (Twitter)Instagram LinkedIn

Contact

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

Email: books@globe.com example@email.com

Meta tags

Title: The Boston Globe | New England news, weather and sports
Description: New England’s largest news organization delivering trusted news, analysis, and insight for more than 150 years. Become a Globe subscriber today.
Canonical: https://www.bostonglobe.com
Language: en-US
Charset
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Google Analytics Meta Pixel

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: —
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: bostonglobe.web.arc-cdn.net
Valid from: Jul 8, 2026
Valid to: Oct 6, 2026
Days until expiry: 76
SAN domains: arc-development.bostonglobe.com, arc-sandbox.bostonglobe.com, arc-staging.bostonglobe.com, bostonglobe.web.arc-cdn.net, www.bostonglobe.com, www2.bostonglobe.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 121 · H3 25

Links

213 internal · 27 external · 2 broken

Images

62 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

53 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

920 KB · 327 KB

Page size

1.7 MB

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

Scan details

Requested URL: https://bostonglobe.com
Final URL: https://www.bostonglobe.com/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 1.36 s
HTML size: 1.7 MB
Redirect chain: https://bostonglobe.com → https://www.bostonglobe.com/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does bostonglobe.com use?: bostonglobe.com is built with Google Analytics, Meta Pixel.
Is bostonglobe.com secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. bostonglobe.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 6, 2026.
Who hosts bostonglobe.com?: Hosting provider information for bostonglobe.com is not available yet.
What is bostonglobe.com's SEO score?: bostonglobe.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is bostonglobe.com's overall website score?: bostonglobe.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 76/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.