chicagotribune.com
Chicago Tribune - Chicago News, Sports, Weather, Business & Things to Do
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
6 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.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
5 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
Summary
Get Chicago and Illinois news from The Chicago Tribune. This website uses WordPress hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance fair (65/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
1.56 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Chicago Tribune - Chicago News, Sports, Weather, Business & Things to Do
- Description
- Get Chicago and Illinois news from The Chicago Tribune
- Canonical
- https://www.chicagotribune.com
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 192.0.66.226
- ASN
- AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
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
- chicagotribune.com
- Valid from
- Jul 4, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 2, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 75
- 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 2 · H2 21 · H3 90
Links
172 internal · 51 external · 5 broken
Images
44 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
61 scripts · 10 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
2.3 MB · 860 KB
Page size
252 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 65
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- Multiple H1 headings found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
Share this:
$2 USD
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://chicagotribune.com
- Final URL
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.55 s
- HTML size
- 252 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://chicagotribune.com → https://www.chicagotribune.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does chicagotribune.com use?
- chicagotribune.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Nginx.
- Is chicagotribune.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. chicagotribune.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 2, 2026.
- Who hosts chicagotribune.com?
- chicagotribune.com is hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US.
- What is chicagotribune.com's SEO score?
- chicagotribune.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is chicagotribune.com's overall website score?
- chicagotribune.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What products does chicagotribune.com offer?
- chicagotribune.com offers Share this:.
- Is chicagotribune.com hiring?
- chicagotribune.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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