joelonsoftware.com
Joel on Software
Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 7:00 PM · 9 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is fair (70/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.
A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies.
Top issues to fix
10 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Over half of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to images — screen readers depend on them, and they help image SEO.
TLS certificate expires in 30 days
SecurityRenew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Missing canonical link
SEOAdd <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
+4 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
263 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 25, 2026
- Overall
- 80
- SEO
- 75
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 70
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies.
Meta tags
- Title
- Joel on Software
- Description
- A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies.
- Canonical
- Language
- en-US
- 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
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- tls.automattic.com
- Valid from
- Jun 3, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 1, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 30
- SAN domains
- tls.automattic.com, aucorenovations.com, commercialtruckinsuranceheadquarters.com, foreviva.com, josephcommercialplumbing.com, lifeofatinker.com, tolmandrywall.com, www.30somethingsproject.com, www.bcp.efe.mybluehost.me, www.bradhoen.com, www.commercialtruckinsuranceheadquarters.com, www.joelonsoftware.com, www.leiraymondguo.com, www.lovingyourliving.com, www.xlw.eik.temp-bh.newfold-dev.site, www.xuy.atn.mybluehost.me, xuy.atn.mybluehost.me
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 10 · H3 11
Links
176 internal · 13 external · 20 broken
Images
6 total · 5 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
64 scripts · 4 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
8.5 KB · 16.5 KB
Page size
83.2 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Missing canonical link
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- Over half of images are missing alt text
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://joelonsoftware.com
- Final URL
- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 262 ms
- HTML size
- 83.2 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://joelonsoftware.com → https://www.joelonsoftware.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does joelonsoftware.com use?
- joelonsoftware.com is built with React, WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is joelonsoftware.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. joelonsoftware.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 1, 2026.
- Who hosts joelonsoftware.com?
- Hosting provider information for joelonsoftware.com is not available yet.
- What is joelonsoftware.com's SEO score?
- joelonsoftware.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is joelonsoftware.com's overall website score?
- joelonsoftware.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has joelonsoftware.com's score changed over time?
- joelonsoftware.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 83 to 80) since Jul 25, 2026.
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