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Hypothesis | The #1 Social Annotation Tool for Higher Education

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 7:00 PM · 8 views

85

Overall score

Great

Summary

Hypothesis is the leading social annotation platform trusted by 300+ institutions to boost student engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking — seamlessly integrated into your LMS. This website uses WordPress behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

Hypothesis is the leading social annotation platform trusted by 300+ institutions to boost student engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking — seamlessly integrated into your LMS.

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

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

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

    Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

80

SEO

4 issue(s) found

90

Performance

970 ms

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+1 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall
85
SEO
80
Security
75
Performance
90
Accessibility
100

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Hypothesis is the leading social annotation platform trusted by 300+ institutions to boost student engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking — seamlessly integrated into your LMS.

Meta tags

Title
Hypothesis | The #1 Social Annotation Tool for Higher Education
Description
Hypothesis is the leading social annotation platform trusted by 300+ institutions to boost student engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking — seamlessly integrated into your LMS.
Canonical
https://web.hypothes.is/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Hypothesis | The #1 Social Annotation Tool for Higher Education
og:description
Hypothesis is the leading social annotation platform trusted by 300+ institutions to boost student engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking — seamlessly integrated into your LMS.
og:type
website
og:url
https://web.hypothes.is/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
connect.hypothes.is
Valid from
Jul 18, 2026
Valid to
Oct 16, 2026
Days until expiry
75
SAN domains
connect.hypothes.is, web.hypothes.is

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 1 · H2 12 · H3 7

Links

47 internal · 11 external · 20 broken

Images

35 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

141 scripts · 22 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

78.4 KB · 160 KB

Page size

320 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Title longer than 60 characters
  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://hypothes.is
Final URL
https://web.hypothes.is
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
964 ms
HTML size
320 KB
Redirect chain
https://hypothes.is → https://web.hypothes.is

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does hypothes.is use?
hypothes.is is built with WordPress, Bootstrap, jQuery, Nginx.
Is hypothes.is secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. hypothes.is uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 16, 2026.
Who hosts hypothes.is?
Hosting provider information for hypothes.is is not available yet.
What is hypothes.is's SEO score?
hypothes.is scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is hypothes.is's overall website score?
hypothes.is has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has hypothes.is's score changed over time?
hypothes.is's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 84 to 85) since Jul 25, 2026.