linux.com
Linux.com - News For Open Source Professionals
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 8:00 PM · 12 views
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
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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
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
3 issue(s) found
Performance
233 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Fastly
- 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
- 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.
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