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Detroit Free Press - Breaking news, sports, business, entertainment

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 6:00 PM · 12 views

91

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Detroit Michigan news - freep.com is the Detroit Free Press. This website uses Google Ads. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

Detroit Free Press

Detroit Michigan news - freep.com is the Detroit Free Press. News about Detroit, as well as headlines and stories from around Michigan.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found · 1 high priority

  • 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.

  • 10 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

    Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.

  • 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.

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

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

75

SEO

4 issue(s) found

100

Performance

204 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

-3 overall since Jul 21, 2026

Overall
91
SEO
75
Security
100
Performance
100
Accessibility
90

Organization

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

Detroit Free Press

Detroit Michigan news - freep.com is the Detroit Free Press. News about Detroit, as well as headlines and stories from around Michigan.

Meta tags

Title
Detroit Free Press - Breaking news, sports, business, entertainment
Description
Detroit Michigan news - freep.com is the Detroit Free Press. News about Detroit, as well as headlines and stories from around Michigan.
Canonical
https://www.freep.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

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Detroit Free Press - Breaking news, sports, business, entertainment
og:description
Detroit Michigan news - freep.com is the Detroit Free Press. News about Detroit, as well as headlines and stories from around Michigan.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.freep.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description
Detroit Michigan news - freep.com is the Detroit Free Press. News about Detroit, as well as headlines and stories from around Michigan.

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 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
usatoday.com
Valid from
Jun 3, 2026
Valid to
Sep 1, 2026
Days until expiry
33
SAN domains
*.app.com, *.azcentral.com, *.cincinnati.com, *.desmoinesregister.com, *.detroitnews.com, *.freep.com, *.gannett-cdn.com, *.gannettdigital.com, *.gcion.com, *.indystar.com, *.jsonline.com, *.northjersey.com, *.tennessean.com, *.usatoday.com, *.usatodaynetworkservice.com, app.com, azcentral.com, cincinnati.com, desmoinesregister.com, detroitnews.com, freep.com, gannett-cdn.com, gannettdigital.com, gcion.com, indystar.com, jsonline.com, northjersey.com, tennessean.com, usatoday.com, usatodaynetworkservice.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

45 internal · 42 external · 20 broken

Images

26 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

8 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

133 KB · 24.5 KB

Page size

218 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Title longer than 60 characters
  • No H1 heading found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • No H1 heading found

Scan details

Requested URL
https://freep.com
Final URL
https://www.freep.com/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
200 ms
HTML size
218 KB
Redirect chain
https://freep.com → https://www.freep.com/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does freep.com use?
freep.com is built with Google Ads.
Is freep.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. freep.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 1, 2026.
Who hosts freep.com?
Hosting provider information for freep.com is not available yet.
What is freep.com's SEO score?
freep.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is freep.com's overall website score?
freep.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What company operates freep.com?
freep.com is operated by Detroit Free Press. Detroit Michigan news - freep.com is the Detroit Free Press. News about Detroit, as well as headlines and stories from around Michigan.
Has freep.com's score changed over time?
freep.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 94 to 91) since Jul 21, 2026.