chowhound.com
Chowhound - The Site for Food Nerds: Cooking Tips, Culinary How-To's, & More.
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:17 AM · 2 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
Chowhound is the site for food nerds - from expert chef tips to culinary how-to's, helpful ingredient lists, baking science, and more. This website uses WordPress hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
Chowhound
Chowhound is the site for food nerds - from expert chef tips to culinary how-to's, helpful ingredient lists, baking science, and more.
- 11787 Lantern Road #201, Fishers, IN, 46038, US
- Hosted on AWS
Top issues to fix
5 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
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.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
533 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Chowhound
Chowhound is the site for food nerds - from expert chef tips to culinary how-to's, helpful ingredient lists, baking science, and more.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- staff@chowhound.com
- Address
- 11787 Lantern Road #201, Fishers, IN, 46038, US
Meta tags
- Title
- Chowhound - The Site for Food Nerds: Cooking Tips, Culinary How-To's, & More.
- Description
- Chowhound is the site for food nerds - from expert chef tips to culinary how-to's, helpful ingredient lists, baking science, and more.
- Canonical
- https://www.chowhound.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- utf8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AWS
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- IP address
- 18.239.111.39
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- chowhound.com
- Valid from
- Jul 15, 2026
- Valid to
- Jan 28, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 186
- SAN domains
- chowhound.com, *.chowhound.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 2 · H2 1 · H3 30
Links
85 internal · 21 external · 0 broken
Images
35 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
6 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
78.0 KB · 32.3 KB
Page size
94.7 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 7
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- Multiple H1 headings found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://chowhound.com
- Final URL
- https://www.chowhound.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 532 ms
- HTML size
- 94.7 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://chowhound.com → https://www.chowhound.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does chowhound.com use?
- chowhound.com is built with WordPress, Nginx.
- Is chowhound.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. chowhound.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Jan 28, 2027.
- Who hosts chowhound.com?
- chowhound.com is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
- What is chowhound.com's SEO score?
- chowhound.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is chowhound.com's overall website score?
- chowhound.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates chowhound.com?
- chowhound.com is operated by Chowhound. Chowhound is the site for food nerds - from expert chef tips to culinary how-to's, helpful ingredient lists, baking science, and more.
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