dcist.com
DCist: News, Food, Arts, Events in DC
Last scanned Aug 6, 2026, 1:00 AM · 7 views
Overall score
Fair
Summary
News, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C. This website uses WordPress hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
News, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C.
- United States
- Hosted on AWS
Top issues to fix
8 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.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
114 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-2 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 78
- SEO
- 70
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
News, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
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
- AWS
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- IP address
- 3.160.196.114
- 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
- dcist.com
- Valid from
- Feb 13, 2026
- Valid to
- Mar 14, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 220
- 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 · 0 broken
Images
22 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
21 scripts · 12 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
788 KB · 811 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
- 112 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?
- dcist.com is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
- 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 78/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has dcist.com's score changed over time?
- dcist.com's overall score has declined by 2 points (from 80 to 78) since Jul 26, 2026.
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