howtogeek.com
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM · 2 views
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
2 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.
Summary
We explain technology. This website uses WordPress hosted on AWS. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance fair (70/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
2.83 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 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.
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
- AWS
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 3.222.102.97
- ASN
- AS14618 (AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
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| A |
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| AAAA | — |
| MX |
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| TXT | — |
| NS |
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| CNAME |
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| 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
- 80
- 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
158 internal · 14 external · 0 broken
Images
59 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
43 scripts · 5 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
605 KB · 480 KB
Page size
842 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 23
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
A Pi makes a decent backup server
$20 USD
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://howtogeek.com
- Final URL
- https://www.howtogeek.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 2.81 s
- HTML size
- 842 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?
- howtogeek.com is hosted on AWS.
- What is howtogeek.com's SEO score?
- howtogeek.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is howtogeek.com's overall website score?
- howtogeek.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What products does howtogeek.com offer?
- howtogeek.com offers A Pi makes a decent backup server.
- Is howtogeek.com hiring?
- howtogeek.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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