lwn.net
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 2:25 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Summary
This website uses Apache hosted on AKAMAI-LINODE-AP - Akamai Connected Cloud, SG. SEO is fair (60/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.
- United States
- Hosted on AKAMAI-LINODE-AP - Akamai Connected Cloud, SG
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing meta description
SEOAdd a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
Missing canonical link
SEOAdd <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEOAdd og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
6 issue(s) found
Performance
193 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
- Description
- Canonical
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- noai, noimageai
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AKAMAI-LINODE-AP - Akamai Connected Cloud, SG
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 173.255.236.65
- ASN
- AS63949 (AKAMAI-LINODE-AP - Akamai Connected Cloud, SG)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
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| MX |
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| TXT |
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| NS |
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| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- lwn.net
- Valid from
- Jun 30, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 28, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 64
- SAN domains
- linuxcalendar.com, linuxweek.net, linuxweeklynews.com, lwn.net, old.lwn.net, www.linuxcalendar.com, www.linuxweek.net, www.linuxweeklynews.com, www.lwn.net
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 20 · H3 0
Links
68 internal · 29 external · 7 broken
Images
3 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
0 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
0 B · 3.8 KB
Page size
28.4 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Missing meta description
- Missing canonical link
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- Missing OpenGraph tags
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://lwn.net
- Final URL
- https://lwn.net
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 193 ms
- HTML size
- 28.4 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://lwn.net
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does lwn.net use?
- lwn.net is built with Apache.
- Is lwn.net secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. lwn.net uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 28, 2026.
- Who hosts lwn.net?
- lwn.net is hosted on AKAMAI-LINODE-AP - Akamai Connected Cloud, SG.
- What is lwn.net's SEO score?
- lwn.net scored 60/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is lwn.net's overall website score?
- lwn.net has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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