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Linux.com - News For Open Source Professionals

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 8:00 PM · 12 views

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

Linux.com is the go-to resource for open source professionals to learn about the latest in Linux and open source technology, careers, best practices, and industry trends. This website uses WordPress behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Linux.com is the go-to resource for open source professionals to learn about the latest in Linux and open source technology, careers, best practices, and industry trends. Get news, information, and tutorials to help advance your next project or career – or just to simply stay informed.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • 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.

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

233 ms

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+4 overall since Jul 22, 2026

Overall
89
SEO
85
Security
75
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Linux.com is the go-to resource for open source professionals to learn about the latest in Linux and open source technology, careers, best practices, and industry trends. Get news, information, and tutorials to help advance your next project or career – or just to simply stay informed.

Meta tags

Title
Linux.com - News For Open Source Professionals
Description
Linux.com is the go-to resource for open source professionals to learn about the latest in Linux and open source technology, careers, best practices, and industry trends. Get news, information, and tutorials to help advance your next project or career – or just to simply stay informed.
Canonical
https://www.linux.com/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
max-image-preview:large
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Linux.com - News For Open Source Professionals
og:description
Linux.com is the go-to resource for open source professionals to learn about the latest in Linux and open source technology, careers, best practices, and industry trends. Get news, information, and tutorials to help advance your next project or career – or just to simply stay informed.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.linux.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Linux.com - News For Open Source Professionals
twitter:description
Linux.com is the go-to resource for open source professionals to learn about the latest in Linux and open source technology, careers, best practices, and industry trends. Get news, information, and tutorials to help advance your next project or career – or just to simply stay informed.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
linux.com
Valid from
Jun 29, 2026
Valid to
Sep 27, 2026
Days until expiry
59
SAN domains
linux.com, www.linux.com

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 0 · H3 31

Links

50 internal · 9 external · 20 broken

Images

2 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

34 scripts · 9 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

53.1 KB · 30.4 KB

Page size

146 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://linux.com
Final URL
https://www.linux.com/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
231 ms
HTML size
146 KB
Redirect chain
https://linux.com → https://www.linux.com/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does linux.com use?
linux.com is built with WordPress, WooCommerce, jQuery, Nginx.
Is linux.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. linux.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 27, 2026.
Who hosts linux.com?
Hosting provider information for linux.com is not available yet.
What is linux.com's SEO score?
linux.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is linux.com's overall website score?
linux.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has linux.com's score changed over time?
linux.com's overall score has improved by 4 points (from 85 to 89) since Jul 22, 2026.