What technology does lex18.com use?

lex18.com is built with Meta Pixel.

Is lex18.com secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. lex18.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Dec 15, 2026.

Hosting provider information for lex18.com is not available yet.

What is lex18.com's SEO score?

lex18.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is lex18.com's overall website score?

lex18.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

lex18.com

LEX 18, WLEX, Lexington, Kentucky Breaking News, Weather, Sports and Traffic | LEX18 | WLEX-TV | Lex18.com

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:48 AM

Overall score

Great

Summary

WLEX Lex 18 News brings you breaking and developing city news, weather, traffic and sports coverage from the Lexington metro area and across Kentucky on WLEX-TV and Lex18.com. This website uses Meta Pixel behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

WLEX Lex 18 News brings you breaking and developing city news, weather, traffic and sports coverage from the Lexington metro area and across Kentucky on WLEX-TV and Lex18.com.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 1 high priority

No H1 heading found
SEO
Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEO
Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEO
Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search 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.

SEO

5 issue(s) found

Performance

1.09 s

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 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.

WLEX Lex 18 News brings you breaking and developing city news, weather, traffic and sports coverage from the Lexington metro area and across Kentucky on WLEX-TV and Lex18.com.

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Contact

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

Email: 18engineering@wlex.tv Cyndi.Abshire@scripps.com webcontent@wlex.tv

Meta tags

Title: LEX 18, WLEX, Lexington, Kentucky Breaking News, Weather, Sports and Traffic | LEX18 | WLEX-TV | Lex18.com
Description: WLEX Lex 18 News brings you breaking and developing city news, weather, traffic and sports coverage from the Lexington metro area and across Kentucky on WLEX-TV and Lex18.com.
Canonical: https://www.lex18.com/
Language: en
Charset: UTF-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta: max-image-preview:[large]
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Meta Pixel

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: CloudFront
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: Amazon
Subject: *.tampabay28.com
Valid from: Jun 1, 2026
Valid to: Dec 15, 2026
Days until expiry: 140
SAN domains: *.tampabay28.com, *.krtv.com, *.theindychannel.com, *.wsfltv.com, *.thelisttv.com, *.thespottv.com, *.kjrh.com, *.wtkr.com, *.abc2news.com, *.wmar2news.com, *.sflcw.com, *.wkbw.com, *.kxlf.com, *.montanasports.com, *.wxyz.com, *.kgun9.com, *.tmj4.com, *.telemundocc.com, *.kypost.com, *.scrippsnews.com, *.katc.com, *.abcactionnews.com, *.wptv.com, *.denver7.com, *.kxxv.com, *.kmtv.com, *.wtvr.com, *.nbc26.com, *.ktvh.com, *.ktvq.com, *.ksby.com, *.wtxl.com, *.fox47news.com, *.goodtoknow.tv, *.kristv.com, *.kpax.com, *.abc15.com, *.thedenverchannel.com, *.fox17online.com, *.ktnv.com, *.kbzk.com, *.newschannel5.com, *.fox13now.com, *.3newsnow.com, *.koaa.com, *.wrtv.com, *.news5cleveland.com, *.kivitv.com, *.kztv10.com, *.fox4now.com, *.kshb.com, *.turnto23.com, *.lex18.com, *.florida24network.com, *.tv20detroit.com, *.10news.com, *.wcpo.com, *.heykentucky.com, *.kxlh.com

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 0 · H2 1 · H3 47

Links

104 internal · 15 external · 20 broken

Images

54 total · 1 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

28 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

22.0 KB · 4.8 KB

Page size

201 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
Meta description longer than 160 characters
No H1 heading found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://lex18.com
Final URL: https://www.lex18.com/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/1.1
Response time: 1.09 s
HTML size: 201 KB
Redirect chain: https://lex18.com → https://www.lex18.com/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does lex18.com use?: lex18.com is built with Meta Pixel.
Is lex18.com secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. lex18.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Dec 15, 2026.
Who hosts lex18.com?: Hosting provider information for lex18.com is not available yet.
What is lex18.com's SEO score?: lex18.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is lex18.com's overall website score?: lex18.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.