What technology does inaturalist.org use?

inaturalist.org is built with Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Google Analytics.

Is inaturalist.org secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. inaturalist.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 20, 2026.

Who hosts inaturalist.org?

Hosting provider information for inaturalist.org is not available yet.

What is inaturalist.org's SEO score?

inaturalist.org scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is inaturalist.org's overall website score?

inaturalist.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has inaturalist.org's score changed over time?

inaturalist.org's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 89 to 86) since Jul 24, 2026.

inaturalist.org

A Community for Naturalists · iNaturalist

Last scanned Jul 31, 2026, 7:00 PM · 14 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world. This website uses Google Analytics behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 1 high priority

Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
Security
Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
2 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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEO
Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEO
Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

SEO

5 issue(s) found

Performance

762 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-3 overall since Jul 24, 2026

Overall: 86
SEO: 70
Security: 90
Performance: 90
Accessibility: 100

Organization

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

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

Facebook Instagram

Contact

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

Email: help@inaturalist.org

Meta tags

Title: A Community for Naturalists · iNaturalist
Description: iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.
Canonical
Language: en
Charset
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Ruby on Rails jQuery Google Analytics

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 1.3
Issuer: Google Trust Services
Subject: www.inaturalist.org
Valid from: Jul 22, 2026
Valid to: Oct 20, 2026
Days until expiry: 80
SAN domains: www.inaturalist.org

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
Referrer-PolicyEnabled
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 8 · H3 14

Links

117 internal · 21 external · 20 broken

Images

117 total · 2 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

10 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

3.2 KB · 0 B

Page size

67.7 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

Meta description longer than 160 characters
Missing canonical link
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://inaturalist.org
Final URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 761 ms
HTML size: 67.7 KB
Redirect chain: https://inaturalist.org → https://www.inaturalist.org/

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