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commondreams.org

Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 4:00 AM · 18 views

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

Common Dreams has been providing breaking news & views for the progressive community since 1997. This website uses WordPress behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

Common Dreams has been providing breaking news & views for the progressive community since 1997. We are independent, non-profit, advertising-free and 100% reader supported. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

    Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • 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

4 issue(s) found

90

Performance

266 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-3 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall
89
SEO
80
Security
90
Performance
90
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Common Dreams has been providing breaking news & views for the progressive community since 1997. We are independent, non-profit, advertising-free and 100% reader supported. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good.

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams
Description
Common Dreams has been providing breaking news & views for the progressive community since 1997. We are independent, non-profit, advertising-free and 100% reader supported. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good.
Canonical
https://www.commondreams.org/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1.0
Robots meta
max-image-preview:large
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Common Dreams
og:description
Common Dreams has been providing breaking news & views for the progressive community since 1997. We are independent, non-profit, advertising-free and 100% reader supported. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good.
og:type
website
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
GlobalSign nv-sa
Subject
www.commondreams.org
Valid from
May 18, 2026
Valid to
Dec 3, 2026
Days until expiry
124
SAN domains
www.commondreams.org

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 80 · H3 12

Links

482 internal · 141 external · 20 broken

Images

30 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

187 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

127 KB · 163 KB

Page size

850 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
  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://commondreams.org
Final URL
https://www.commondreams.org/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
249 ms
HTML size
850 KB
Redirect chain
https://commondreams.org → https://www.commondreams.org/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does commondreams.org use?
commondreams.org is built with WordPress, Drupal, Google Analytics, Nginx.
Is commondreams.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. commondreams.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 3, 2026.
Who hosts commondreams.org?
Hosting provider information for commondreams.org is not available yet.
What is commondreams.org's SEO score?
commondreams.org scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is commondreams.org's overall website score?
commondreams.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has commondreams.org's score changed over time?
commondreams.org's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 92 to 89) since Jul 25, 2026.