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The Citizen-Times, Asheville

Last scanned Aug 3, 2026, 3:00 AM · 6 views

92

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Asheville North Carolina News - citizen-times is the home page of The Citizen Times with in depth local news, sports and entertainment. This website uses Google Ads. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.

The Asheville Citizen Times

Asheville North Carolina News - citizen-times is the home page of The Citizen Times with in depth local news, sports and entertainment.

Top issues to fix

5 issues found · 1 high priority

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.

  • 10 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • 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.

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

80

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

548 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

+2 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall
92
SEO
80
Security
100
Performance
100
Accessibility
90

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

The Asheville Citizen Times

Asheville North Carolina News - citizen-times is the home page of The Citizen Times with in depth local news, sports and entertainment.

Meta tags

Title
The Citizen-Times, Asheville
Description
Asheville North Carolina News - citizen-times is the home page of The Citizen Times with in depth local news, sports and entertainment.
Canonical
https://www.citizen-times.com/
Language
en-US
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1
Robots meta
NOODP, NOYDIR, max-image-preview:large
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
The Citizen-Times, Asheville
og:description
Asheville North Carolina News - citizen-times is the home page of The Citizen Times with in depth local news, sports and entertainment.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.citizen-times.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description
Asheville North Carolina News - citizen-times is the home page of The Citizen Times with in depth local news, sports and entertainment.

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
citizen-times.com
Valid from
Jul 3, 2026
Valid to
Oct 1, 2026
Days until expiry
59
SAN domains
*.citizen-times.com, *.gannett-cdn.com, *.gannettdigital.com, *.gcion.com, *.usatoday.com, *.usatodaynetworkservice.com, citizen-times.com

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
  • Referrer-PolicyEnabled
  • Permissions-PolicyEnabled

Compression: gzip · 10 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 0

Links

45 internal · 46 external · 20 broken

Images

29 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

8 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

129 KB · 24.7 KB

Page size

211 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • No H1 heading found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • No H1 heading found

Scan details

Requested URL
https://citizen-times.com
Final URL
https://www.citizen-times.com/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
544 ms
HTML size
211 KB
Redirect chain
https://citizen-times.com → https://www.citizen-times.com/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does citizen-times.com use?
citizen-times.com is built with Google Ads.
Is citizen-times.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. citizen-times.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 1, 2026.
Who hosts citizen-times.com?
Hosting provider information for citizen-times.com is not available yet.
What is citizen-times.com's SEO score?
citizen-times.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is citizen-times.com's overall website score?
citizen-times.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What company operates citizen-times.com?
citizen-times.com is operated by The Asheville Citizen Times. Asheville North Carolina News - citizen-times is the home page of The Citizen Times with in depth local news, sports and entertainment.
Has citizen-times.com's score changed over time?
citizen-times.com's overall score has improved by 2 points (from 90 to 92) since Jul 26, 2026.