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livescience.com

Live Science | Latest science news and articles for those with curious minds

Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM

80

Overall score

Great

Top issues to fix

6 issues found

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

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

  • 2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

    Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.

  • Missing OpenGraph tags

    SEO

    Add og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text

    Accessibility

    Add alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).

Summary

Daily discoveries, groundbreaking research and fascinating science breakthroughs that impact you and the wider world, reported by our expert journalists. This website is hosted on Fastly. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores excellent (95/100) and performance fair (55/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

55

Performance

440 ms

95

Security

HTTPS & header checks

85

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.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Live Science | Latest science news and articles for those with curious minds
Description
Daily discoveries, groundbreaking research and fascinating science breakthroughs that impact you and the wider world, reported by our expert journalists.
Canonical
https://www.livescience.com
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.livescience.com

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

No technologies detected.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Fastly
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
151.101.130.114
ASN
AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 151.101.130.114
  • 151.101.66.114
  • 151.101.194.114
  • 151.101.2.114
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
  • g.sni.global.fastly.net
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
www.livescience.com
Valid from
Jun 16, 2026
Valid to
Sep 14, 2026
Days until expiry
57
SAN domains
livescience.com, www.livescience.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 14 · H3 0

Links

193 internal · 15 external · 0 broken

Images

93 total · 46 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

74 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

2.0 MB · 791 KB

Page size

1.9 MB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
19
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Title longer than 60 characters
  • Missing OpenGraph tags
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text

Scan details

Requested URL
https://livescience.com
Final URL
https://www.livescience.com/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
401 ms
HTML size
1.9 MB
Redirect chain
https://livescience.com → https://www.livescience.com/

Frequently asked questions

What technology does livescience.com use?
We did not detect any specific technologies for livescience.com in the latest scan.
Is livescience.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. livescience.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 14, 2026.
Who hosts livescience.com?
livescience.com is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
What is livescience.com's SEO score?
livescience.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is livescience.com's overall website score?
livescience.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.