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Iowa State Daily – The independent student newspaper of Iowa State and Ames since 1890

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM · 1 view

87

Overall score

Great

Summary

The independent student newspaper of Iowa State and Ames since 1890. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

The independent student newspaper of Iowa State and Ames since 1890

Top issues to fix

7 issues found

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

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

  • Missing canonical link

    SEO

    Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

  • 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.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

65

SEO

6 issue(s) found

90

Performance

1.07 s

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

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Organization

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

The independent student newspaper of Iowa State and Ames since 1890

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Iowa State Daily – The independent student newspaper of Iowa State and Ames since 1890
Description
The independent student newspaper of Iowa State and Ames since 1890
Canonical
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width
Robots meta
max-image-preview:large
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Iowa State Daily
og:description
The independent student newspaper of Iowa State and Ames since 1890
og:type
blog
og:url
https://iowastatedaily.com

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
iowastatedaily.com
Valid from
Jun 30, 2026
Valid to
Sep 28, 2026
Days until expiry
34
SAN domains
iowastatedaily.com, *.iowastatedaily.com

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
  • Referrer-PolicyEnabled
  • Permissions-PolicyEnabled

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 3 · H2 0 · H3 1

Links

73 internal · 9 external · 1 broken

Images

44 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

51 scripts · 19 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

7.5 KB · 97.8 KB

Page size

255 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
  • Missing canonical link
  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • 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://iowastatedaily.com
Final URL
https://iowastatedaily.com
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.06 s
HTML size
255 KB
Redirect chain
https://iowastatedaily.com

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does iowastatedaily.com use?
iowastatedaily.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Cloudflare Analytics.
Is iowastatedaily.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. iowastatedaily.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 28, 2026.
Who hosts iowastatedaily.com?
Hosting provider information for iowastatedaily.com is not available yet.
What is iowastatedaily.com's SEO score?
iowastatedaily.com scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is iowastatedaily.com's overall website score?
iowastatedaily.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.