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crossref.org

Crossref

Last scanned Jul 24, 2026, 8:25 PM · 1 view

78

Overall score

Fair

Summary

Crossref runs open infrastructure to link the world's research outputs. This website uses jQuery hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is good (75/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.

Crossref runs open infrastructure to link the world's research outputs. 25,000+ members, 167 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.

United States
Hosted on AWS

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 3 high priority

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

    Security

    Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

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

  • 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.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

80

SEO

2 issue(s) found

90

Performance

202 ms

65

Security

HTTPS & header checks

75

Accessibility

2 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

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

Crossref runs open infrastructure to link the world's research outputs. 25,000+ members, 167 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Crossref
Description
Crossref runs open infrastructure to link the world's research outputs. 25,000+ members, 167 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
Canonical
https://www.crossref.org/
Language
en-us
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
You are Crossref - Crossref
og:description
Crossref runs open infrastructure to link the world's research outputs. 25,000+ members, 167 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.crossref.org/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
AWS
CDN provider
CloudFront
IP address
34.205.57.5
ASN
AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 34.205.57.5
  • 52.71.48.175
  • 174.129.126.250
  • 34.200.73.166
AAAA
MX
  • aspmx2.googlemail.com
  • alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
  • aspmx.l.google.com
  • alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
  • aspmx3.googlemail.com
TXT
  • MS=ms40313232
  • status-page-domain-verification=pmfyw22rmcg9
  • intacct-esk=4FED1A49C4B8865AE053DF06A8C02878
  • 1wnqjfbqpgk7rry20dzzcqmm0fhqpdwm
  • v=spf1 ip4:208.254.38.64/27 ip4:108.26.163.24 ip4:18.233.120.246 include:mail.zendesk.com include:stspg-customer.com include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.intacct.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.act-on.net ~all
NS
  • ns-1052.awsdns-03.org
  • ns-659.awsdns-18.net
  • ns-473.awsdns-59.com
  • ns-1629.awsdns-11.co.uk
CAA
  • 0 issuewild "amazontrust.com"
  • 0 issue "amazontrust.com"
  • 0 issuewild "letsencrypt.org"
  • 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Amazon
Subject
crossref.org
Valid from
Jun 10, 2026
Valid to
Dec 24, 2026
Days until expiry
153
SAN domains
crossref.org

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
  • Content-Security-PolicyMissing
  • X-Frame-OptionsMissing
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
  • Referrer-PolicyMissing
  • Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 4 · H3 4

Links

64 internal · 12 external · 2 broken

Images

9 total · 2 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

22 scripts · 8 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

287 KB · 445 KB

Page size

34.2 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
3
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
1678

SEO issues

  • No H1 heading found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

Accessibility issues

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text
  • No H1 heading found

Careers

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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://crossref.org
Final URL
https://crossref.org
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
202 ms
HTML size
34.2 KB
Redirect chain
https://crossref.org

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does crossref.org use?
crossref.org is built with Bootstrap, jQuery.
Is crossref.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. crossref.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Dec 24, 2026.
Who hosts crossref.org?
crossref.org is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
What is crossref.org's SEO score?
crossref.org scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is crossref.org's overall website score?
crossref.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 78/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is crossref.org hiring?
crossref.org has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.