hackaday.com
Hackaday | Fresh Hacks Every Day
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing meta description
SEOAdd a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
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.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
Summary
This website uses WordPress hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
4 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- tips@hackaday.com
Meta tags
- Title
- Hackaday | Fresh Hacks Every Day
- Description
- Canonical
- https://hackaday.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 192.0.66.96
- ASN
- AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA | — |
| MX |
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| TXT |
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| NS |
|
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- hackaday.com
- Valid from
- Jun 26, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 24, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 65
- SAN domains
- hackaday.com, www.hackaday.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 24 · H2 35 · H3 0
Links
63 internal · 38 external · 0 broken
Images
31 total · 1 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
22 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
177 KB · 95.5 KB
Page size
95.4 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 1
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Missing meta description
- Multiple H1 headings found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://hackaday.com
- Final URL
- https://hackaday.com
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 3 ms
- HTML size
- 95.4 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://hackaday.com
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does hackaday.com use?
- hackaday.com is built with WordPress, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is hackaday.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. hackaday.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 24, 2026.
- Who hosts hackaday.com?
- hackaday.com is hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US.
- What is hackaday.com's SEO score?
- hackaday.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is hackaday.com's overall website score?
- hackaday.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is hackaday.com hiring?
- hackaday.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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