dcist.com
DCist: News, Food, Arts, Events in DC
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:47 AM
Overall score
Great
Summary
News, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C. This website uses WordPress behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
News, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C.
Top issues to fix
9 issues found · 3 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.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd 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
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.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
+3 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
103 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
News, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C.
Meta tags
- Title
- DCist: News, Food, Arts, Events in DC
- Description
- News, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C.
- Canonical
- https://dcist.com
- Language
- en
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- 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
- Amazon
- Subject
- dcist.com
- Valid from
- Feb 13, 2026
- Valid to
- Mar 14, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 229
- SAN domains
- dcist.com, www.dcist.com
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 22 · H3 0
Links
28 internal · 1 external · 20 broken
Images
22 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
18 scripts · 10 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1022 B · 17.3 KB
Page size
134 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
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://dcist.com
- Final URL
- https://dcist.com
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 101 ms
- HTML size
- 134 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://dcist.com
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does dcist.com use?
- dcist.com is built with React, WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics.
- Is dcist.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. dcist.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Mar 14, 2027.
- Who hosts dcist.com?
- Hosting provider information for dcist.com is not available yet.
- What is dcist.com's SEO score?
- dcist.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is dcist.com's overall website score?
- dcist.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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