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HISTORY | Topics, Shows and This Day in History | HISTORY

Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM

88

Overall score

Great

Top issues to fix

2 issues found

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

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

  • 6 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.

Summary

Watch full episodes of your favorite HISTORY series, and dive into thousands of historical articles and videos. This website uses Next.js hosted on Fastly behind Vercel CDN. SEO is excellent (100/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance fair (60/100).

100

SEO

0 issue(s) found

60

Performance

211 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 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.

HISTORY

Watch full episodes of your favorite HISTORY series, and dive into thousands of historical articles and videos. To know History is to know life.

FacebookX (Twitter)YouTubeInstagramtiktok.com

Contact

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

Source: https://www.history.com/accessibility-support

Meta tags

Title
HISTORY | Topics, Shows and This Day in History | HISTORY
Description
Fascinating stories from the past you can trust, plus hit shows.
Canonical
https://www.history.com/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
index
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
HISTORY | Topics, Shows and This Day in History | HISTORY
og:description
Fascinating stories from the past you can trust, plus hit shows.
og:type
—
og:url
https://www.history.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
HISTORY | Topics, Shows and This Day in History | HISTORY
twitter:description
Fascinating stories from the past you can trust, plus hit shows.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Next.js

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Fastly
CDN provider
Vercel
IP address
151.101.2.168
ASN
AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 151.101.2.168
  • 151.101.130.168
  • 151.101.194.168
  • 151.101.66.168
AAAA
  • 2a04:4e42:200::680
  • 2a04:4e42::680
  • 2a04:4e42:600::680
  • 2a04:4e42:400::680
MX—
TXT—
NS—
CAA—
CNAME
  • http2.aenet.map.fastly.net
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
history.com
Valid from
Jul 8, 2026
Valid to
Oct 6, 2026
Days until expiry
79
SAN domains
*.history.com, history.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 6 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 26 · H3 18

Links

121 internal · 27 external · 0 broken

Images

63 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

151 scripts · 45 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

4.2 MB · 76.5 KB

Page size

727 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
2
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
14

SEO issues

No SEO issues detected.

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Team

People listed on this site's own team or about page.

Ben Bradlee

As editor, he led

Votava/Imagno/Getty Images

Victor Gruen

Bettmann Archive

Victoria Woodhull

Scan details

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

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does history.com use?
history.com is built with Next.js.
Is history.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. history.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 6, 2026.
Who hosts history.com?
history.com is hosted on Fastly, behind Vercel CDN.
What is history.com's SEO score?
history.com scored 100/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is history.com's overall website score?
history.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What company operates history.com?
history.com is operated by HISTORY. Watch full episodes of your favorite HISTORY series, and dive into thousands of historical articles and videos. To know History is to know life.