What technology does kicad.org use?

kicad.org is built with Bootstrap, jQuery.

Is kicad.org secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. kicad.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 7, 2026.

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

What is kicad.org's SEO score?

kicad.org scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).

What is kicad.org's overall website score?

kicad.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

kicad.org

KiCad - Schematic Capture & PCB Design Software

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 11:49 AM

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Open source PCB design / electronics CAD software for Windows, macOS and Linux. This website uses jQuery behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

KiCad EDA

Open source PCB design / electronics CAD software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Use schematic capture, create PCB designs and view them in 3D, all forever free.

Top issues to fix

5 issues found

Missing X-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
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.
20 broken links on the page
SEO
Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

SEO

3 issue(s) found

Performance

1.87 s

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

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

KiCad EDA

Open source PCB design / electronics CAD software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Use schematic capture, create PCB designs and view them in 3D, all forever free.

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Meta tags

Title: KiCad - Schematic Capture & PCB Design Software
Description: Open source PCB design / electronics CAD software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Use schematic capture, create PCB designs and view them in 3D, all forever free.
Canonical
Language: en-us
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Bootstrap jQuery

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: kicad.org
Valid from: Jul 9, 2026
Valid to: Oct 7, 2026
Days until expiry: 70
SAN domains: kicad.org, *.kicad.org

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 4 · H3 2

Links

47 internal · 15 external · 20 broken

Images

4 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

6 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

459 B · 44.6 KB

Page size

71.2 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

Missing canonical link
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://kicad.org
Final URL: https://www.kicad.org/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 1.86 s
HTML size: 71.2 KB
Redirect chain: https://kicad.org → https://www.kicad.org/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does kicad.org use?: kicad.org is built with Bootstrap, jQuery.
Is kicad.org secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. kicad.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 7, 2026.
Who hosts kicad.org?: Hosting provider information for kicad.org is not available yet.
What is kicad.org's SEO score?: kicad.org scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is kicad.org's overall website score?: kicad.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What company operates kicad.org?: kicad.org is operated by KiCad EDA. Open source PCB design / electronics CAD software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Use schematic capture, create PCB designs and view them in 3D, all forever free.