howtoforge.com
Howtoforge Linux Tutorials.
Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 8:00 AM · 10 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials. This website uses Google Ads behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No structured data (JSON-LD) found.
HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials.
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 2 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.
1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
1.67 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+1 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 87
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 80
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials.
Meta tags
- Title
- Howtoforge Linux Tutorials.
- Description
- HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials.
- Canonical
- https://www.howtoforge.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
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 1.2
- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- howtoforge.com
- Valid from
- Jul 9, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 7, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 66
- SAN domains
- howtoforge.com, *.howtoforge.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 10 · H3 1
Links
46 internal · 13 external · 20 broken
Images
25 total · 4 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
16 scripts · 5 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
4.2 KB · 0 B
Page size
32.6 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://howtoforge.com
- Final URL
- https://www.howtoforge.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.67 s
- HTML size
- 32.6 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://howtoforge.com → https://www.howtoforge.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does howtoforge.com use?
- howtoforge.com is built with PHP, jQuery, Google Ads.
- Is howtoforge.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. howtoforge.com uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 7, 2026.
- Who hosts howtoforge.com?
- Hosting provider information for howtoforge.com is not available yet.
- What is howtoforge.com's SEO score?
- howtoforge.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is howtoforge.com's overall website score?
- howtoforge.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has howtoforge.com's score changed over time?
- howtoforge.com's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 86 to 87) since Jul 26, 2026.
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