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Essays · Gwern.net

Last scanned Aug 5, 2026, 9:00 AM · 9 views

78

Overall score

Fair

Summary

Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer): topics: psychology, statistics, technology, deep learning, anime. This website uses Google Analytics hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance good (75/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer): topics: psychology, statistics, technology, deep learning, anime. This index page is a categorized list of Gwern.net pages.

United States
Hosted on Cloudflare

Products & pricing

Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.

Subscripts For Citations

$200 USD

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 2 high priority

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

    Security

    Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.

  • 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.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

75

SEO

4 issue(s) found

75

Performance

604 ms

65

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+3 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall
78
SEO
75
Security
65
Performance
75
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer): topics: psychology, statistics, technology, deep learning, anime. This index page is a categorized list of Gwern.net pages.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Essays · Gwern.net
Description
Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer): topics: psychology, statistics, technology, deep learning, anime. This index page is a categorized list of Gwern.net pages.
Canonical
https://gwern.net/index
Language
en-us
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
Essays
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Cloudflare
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
104.26.10.177
ASN
AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 104.26.10.177
  • 172.67.71.248
  • 104.26.11.177
AAAA
  • 2606:4700:20::681a:ab1
  • 2606:4700:20::ac43:47f8
  • 2606:4700:20::681a:bb1
MX
  • mx-fwd-1.nearlyfreespeech.net
TXT
  • v=spf1 -all
NS
  • lady.ns.cloudflare.com
  • sid.ns.cloudflare.com
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
gwern.net
Valid from
Jun 14, 2026
Valid to
Sep 12, 2026
Days until expiry
38
SAN domains
gwern.net, *.gwern.net

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 43 · H2 0 · H3 0

Links

459 internal · 4 external · 0 broken

Images

0 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

7 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.2 MB · 421 KB

Page size

139 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
22251

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://gwern.net
Final URL
https://gwern.net
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
602 ms
HTML size
139 KB
Redirect chain
https://gwern.net

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does gwern.net use?
gwern.net is built with Google Analytics.
Is gwern.net secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. gwern.net uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 12, 2026.
Who hosts gwern.net?
gwern.net is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
What is gwern.net's SEO score?
gwern.net scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is gwern.net's overall website score?
gwern.net has an overall SiteGraph score of 78/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What products does gwern.net offer?
gwern.net offers Subscripts For Citations.
Has gwern.net's score changed over time?
gwern.net's overall score has improved by 3 points (from 75 to 78) since Jul 26, 2026.