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chicagomag.com

Chicago Tribune's Chicago Magazine

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:18 AM

86

Overall score

Great

Summary

Chicago Magazine features award-winning smart service journalism and provocative narrative stories important to Chicagoland. This website uses WordPress. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.

Chicago Magazine features award-winning smart service journalism and provocative narrative stories important to Chicagoland.

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.

  • Slow estimated load (8.4s)

    Performance

    Use a CDN, enable caching/compression, and cut render-blocking assets — every extra second costs conversions.

  • 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.

90

SEO

2 issue(s) found

80

Performance

8.45 s

75

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.

Chicago Magazine features award-winning smart service journalism and provocative narrative stories important to Chicagoland.

Meta tags

Title
Chicago Tribune's Chicago Magazine
Description
Chicago Magazine features award-winning smart service journalism and provocative narrative stories important to Chicagoland.
Canonical
https://www.chicagotribune.com/chicago-magazine/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
max-image-preview:large
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Chicago Tribune's Chicago Magazine
og:description
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.chicagotribune.com/chicago-magazine/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
chicagotribune.com
Valid from
Jul 4, 2026
Valid to
Oct 2, 2026
Days until expiry
67
SAN domains
chicagotribune.com, www.chicagotribune.com

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 8 · H3 29

Links

120 internal · 43 external · 17 broken

Images

17 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

60 scripts · 9 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

15.7 KB · 7.7 KB

Page size

122 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://chicagomag.com
Final URL
https://www.chicagotribune.com/chicago-magazine/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
8.45 s
HTML size
122 KB
Redirect chain
https://chicagomag.com → https://www.chicagotribune.com/chicago-magazine/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does chicagomag.com use?
chicagomag.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Nginx.
Is chicagomag.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. chicagomag.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 2, 2026.
Who hosts chicagomag.com?
Hosting provider information for chicagomag.com is not available yet.
What is chicagomag.com's SEO score?
chicagomag.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is chicagomag.com's overall website score?
chicagomag.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.