desertsun.com
The Desert Sun | Palm Springs and Coachella Valley news
Last scanned Aug 5, 2026, 9:00 AM · 11 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
The latest Palm Springs area news from The Desert Sun newspaper in the California desert. 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 Desert Sun
The latest Palm Springs area news from The Desert Sun newspaper in the California desert. Coachella Valley photos, obituaries and events calendar.
Top issues to fix
5 issues found · 1 high priority
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.
10 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
207 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 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 Desert Sun
The latest Palm Springs area news from The Desert Sun newspaper in the California desert. Coachella Valley photos, obituaries and events calendar.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Desert Sun | Palm Springs and Coachella Valley news
- Description
- The latest Palm Springs area news from The Desert Sun newspaper in the California desert. Coachella Valley photos, obituaries and events calendar.
- Canonical
- https://www.desertsun.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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- 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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- desertsun.com
- Valid from
- Jul 1, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 29, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 55
- SAN domains
- *.desertsun.com, *.gannett-cdn.com, *.gannettdigital.com, *.gcion.com, *.usatoday.com, *.usatodaynetworkservice.com, desertsun.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
35 internal · 44 external · 20 broken
Images
23 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
8 scripts · 0 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
129 KB · 24.4 KB
Page size
205 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://desertsun.com
- Final URL
- https://www.desertsun.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 203 ms
- HTML size
- 205 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://desertsun.com → https://www.desertsun.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does desertsun.com use?
- desertsun.com is built with Google Ads.
- Is desertsun.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. desertsun.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 29, 2026.
- Who hosts desertsun.com?
- Hosting provider information for desertsun.com is not available yet.
- What is desertsun.com's SEO score?
- desertsun.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is desertsun.com's overall website score?
- desertsun.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates desertsun.com?
- desertsun.com is operated by The Desert Sun. The latest Palm Springs area news from The Desert Sun newspaper in the California desert. Coachella Valley photos, obituaries and events calendar.
- Has desertsun.com's score changed over time?
- desertsun.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 95 to 92) since Jul 26, 2026.
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