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explainthatstuff.com

Explain that Stuff

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:47 AM · 1 view

91

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

A collection of FREE, easy-to-understand science, technology, and how-it-works articles for the whole family!. This website uses PHP. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.

Explain that Stuff

A collection of FREE, easy-to-understand science, technology, and how-it-works articles for the whole family!

Garfield House, Garfield Lane, Swanage, Dorset, BH, BH19 3HJ, United Kingdom

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.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

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

  • 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.

  • Missing html lang attribute

    Accessibility

    Set <html lang="…"> so screen readers pick the right pronunciation rules.

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

90

SEO

2 issue(s) found

100

Performance

752 ms

85

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 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.

Explain that Stuff

A collection of FREE, easy-to-understand science, technology, and how-it-works articles for the whole family!

Contact

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

Address
Garfield House, Garfield Lane, Swanage, Dorset, BH, BH19 3HJ, United Kingdom

Meta tags

Title
Explain that Stuff
Description
A collection of FREE, easy-to-understand science, technology, and how-it-works articles for the whole family!
Canonical
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/
Language
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
max-image-preview:large
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Explain that stuff! Science and technology made simple
og:description
We make science and technology easy to understand.
og:type
website
og:url
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.2
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
explainthatstuff.com
Valid from
Jun 28, 2026
Valid to
Sep 26, 2026
Days until expiry
59
SAN domains
explainthatstuff.com, mail.explainthatstuff.com, www.explainthatstuff.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 11 · H3 33

Links

45 internal · 8 external · 20 broken

Images

38 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

2 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

0 B · 12.2 KB

Page size

54.3 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • Missing <html lang> attribute

Scan details

Requested URL
https://explainthatstuff.com
Final URL
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
751 ms
HTML size
54.3 KB
Redirect chain
https://explainthatstuff.com → http://www.explainthatstuff.com/ → https://www.explainthatstuff.com/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does explainthatstuff.com use?
explainthatstuff.com is built with PHP, Apache.
Is explainthatstuff.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. explainthatstuff.com uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 26, 2026.
Who hosts explainthatstuff.com?
Hosting provider information for explainthatstuff.com is not available yet.
What is explainthatstuff.com's SEO score?
explainthatstuff.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is explainthatstuff.com's overall website score?
explainthatstuff.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What company operates explainthatstuff.com?
explainthatstuff.com is operated by Explain that Stuff. A collection of FREE, easy-to-understand science, technology, and how-it-works articles for the whole family!