howtogeek.com
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 7:00 PM · 8 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
We explain technology. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Top issues to fix
5 issues found · 1 high priority
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.
6 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
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.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
690 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-1 overall since Jul 21, 2026
- Overall
- 87
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 100
- Performance
- 80
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Meta tags
- Title
- How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
- Description
- We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
- Canonical
- https://www.howtogeek.com/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- 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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- howtogeek.com
- Valid from
- Jul 11, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 9, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 72
- SAN domains
- *.howtogeek.com, *.reviewgeek.com, howtogeek.com, reviewgeek.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 6 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 14 · H3 23
Links
159 internal · 14 external · 20 broken
Images
59 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
43 scripts · 5 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
75.9 KB · 480 KB
Page size
838 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://howtogeek.com
- Final URL
- https://www.howtogeek.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 673 ms
- HTML size
- 838 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://howtogeek.com → https://www.howtogeek.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does howtogeek.com use?
- howtogeek.com is built with WordPress, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is howtogeek.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. howtogeek.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 9, 2026.
- Who hosts howtogeek.com?
- Hosting provider information for howtogeek.com is not available yet.
- What is howtogeek.com's SEO score?
- howtogeek.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is howtogeek.com's overall website score?
- howtogeek.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has howtogeek.com's score changed over time?
- howtogeek.com's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 88 to 87) since Jul 21, 2026.
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