grist.org
Grist – Climate and environmental news | Grist
Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 7:00 AM · 10 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Independent news on climate change and the environment and their intersections with energy, policy, food, extreme weather, and more. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
Independent news on climate change and the environment and their intersections with energy, policy, food, extreme weather, and more.
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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
23 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 25, 2026
- Overall
- 83
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Independent news on climate change and the environment and their intersections with energy, policy, food, extreme weather, and more.
Meta tags
- Title
- Grist – Climate and environmental news | Grist
- Description
- Independent news on climate change and the environment and their intersections with energy, policy, food, extreme weather, and more.
- Canonical
- https://grist.org/
- Language
- en-us
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=5
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
- https://grist.org/wp-content/themes/grist/static/img/favicon/manifest.json
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- 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
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- grist.org
- Valid from
- Jul 31, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 29, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 89
- SAN domains
- grist.org, *.grist.org
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 24 · H3 55
Links
120 internal · 18 external · 20 broken
Images
46 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
72 scripts · 4 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
33.2 KB · 21.8 KB
Page size
296 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://grist.org
- Final URL
- https://grist.org
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 17 ms
- HTML size
- 296 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://grist.org
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does grist.org use?
- grist.org is built with WordPress, jQuery, Cloudflare Analytics, Meta Pixel.
- Is grist.org secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. grist.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 29, 2026.
- Who hosts grist.org?
- Hosting provider information for grist.org is not available yet.
- What is grist.org's SEO score?
- grist.org scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is grist.org's overall website score?
- grist.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has grist.org's score changed over time?
- grist.org's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 86 to 83) since Jul 25, 2026.
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