calmatters.org
CalMatters - California Politics, Policy, and Political News
Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 6:25 PM · 2 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
CalMatters is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom committed to explaining California politics and policy. This website uses WordPress hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US. SEO is excellent (100/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (80/100).
CalMatters is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom committed to explaining California politics and policy.
- United States
- Hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
Top issues to fix
4 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 X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
3 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
0 issue(s) found
Performance
65 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
CalMatters is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom committed to explaining California politics and policy.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- CalMatters - California Politics, Policy, and Political News
- Description
- CalMatters is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom committed to explaining California politics and policy.
- Canonical
- https://calmatters.org/
- Language
- en-US
- 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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 192.0.78.170
- ASN
- AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA | — |
| MX |
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| TXT | — |
| NS |
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| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- calmatters.org
- Valid from
- Jun 22, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 20, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 57
- SAN domains
- calmatters.org
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 73 · H3 22
Links
158 internal · 15 external · 3 broken
Images
26 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
61 scripts · 25 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
588 KB · 491 KB
Page size
311 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 4
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
No SEO issues detected.
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Careers
Team
People listed on this site's own team or about page.

Simone Coxe
Chair Emeritus and Co-Founder

Chris Boskin
Co-Founder

Dave Lesher
Co-Founder and Former Editor
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://calmatters.org
- Final URL
- https://calmatters.org
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 59 ms
- HTML size
- 311 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://calmatters.org
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does calmatters.org use?
- calmatters.org is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is calmatters.org secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. calmatters.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 20, 2026.
- Who hosts calmatters.org?
- calmatters.org is hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US.
- What is calmatters.org's SEO score?
- calmatters.org scored 100/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is calmatters.org's overall website score?
- calmatters.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is calmatters.org hiring?
- Yes. calmatters.org has 3 open roles listed on their careers page.
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