livescience.com
Live Science | Latest science news and articles for those with curious minds
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
6 issues found
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEOAdd og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd 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.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
440 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
No technologies detected.
Hosting & CDN
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | No |
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/
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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.
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