kitces.com
Kitces.com - Advancing Knowledge in Financial Planning
Last scanned Aug 4, 2026, 4:00 PM · 6 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Home of the Nerd's Eye View financial planning industry blog and The Kitces Report newsletter for IMCA and CFP CE credits, published by Michael Kitces. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.
Home of the Nerd's Eye View financial planning industry blog and The Kitces Report newsletter for IMCA and CFP CE credits, published by Michael Kitces.
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
233 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-1 overall since Jul 27, 2026
- Overall
- 86
- SEO
- 90
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Home of the Nerd's Eye View financial planning industry blog and The Kitces Report newsletter for IMCA and CFP CE credits, published by Michael Kitces.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Kitces.com - Advancing Knowledge in Financial Planning
- Description
- Home of the Nerd's Eye View financial planning industry blog and The Kitces Report newsletter for IMCA and CFP CE credits, published by Michael Kitces.
- Canonical
- https://www.kitces.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
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
- kitces.com
- Valid from
- Jul 20, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 18, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 75
- SAN domains
- kitces.com, *.kitces.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- 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 8 · H3 2
Links
124 internal · 22 external · 4 broken
Images
38 total · 1 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
171 scripts · 16 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
90.8 KB · 32.5 KB
Page size
309 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://kitces.com
- Final URL
- https://www.kitces.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 227 ms
- HTML size
- 309 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://kitces.com → https://www.kitces.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does kitces.com use?
- kitces.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Cloudflare Analytics, Meta Pixel.
- Is kitces.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. kitces.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 18, 2026.
- Who hosts kitces.com?
- Hosting provider information for kitces.com is not available yet.
- What is kitces.com's SEO score?
- kitces.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is kitces.com's overall website score?
- kitces.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has kitces.com's score changed over time?
- kitces.com's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 87 to 86) since Jul 27, 2026.
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