chicagotribune.com
Chicago Tribune - Chicago News, Sports, Weather, Business & Things to Do
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 8 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Get Chicago and Illinois news from The Chicago Tribune. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
Get Chicago and Illinois news from The Chicago Tribune
Top issues to fix
8 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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
2.46 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+3 overall since Jul 18, 2026
- Overall
- 85
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Get Chicago and Illinois news from The Chicago Tribune
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
- —
- 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
- chicagotribune.com
- Valid from
- Jul 4, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 2, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 64
- 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 91
Links
171 internal · 51 external · 20 broken
Images
78 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
66 scripts · 10 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
16.1 KB · 44.9 KB
Page size
298 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- Multiple H1 headings found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://chicagotribune.com
- Final URL
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 2.46 s
- HTML size
- 298 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?
- Hosting provider information for chicagotribune.com is not available yet.
- What is chicagotribune.com's SEO score?
- chicagotribune.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is chicagotribune.com's overall website score?
- chicagotribune.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has chicagotribune.com's score changed over time?
- chicagotribune.com's overall score has improved by 3 points (from 82 to 85) since Jul 18, 2026.
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