medicalnewstoday.com
Medical and health information | MedicalNewsToday
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
5 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.
1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).
Summary
Medical news and health news headlines posted throughout the day, every day. This website uses WordPress hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is excellent (100/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100).
SEO
0 issue(s) found
Performance
360 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
- Medical and health information | MedicalNewsToday
- Description
- Medical news and health news headlines posted throughout the day, every day
- Canonical
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AWS
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- IP address
- 13.225.5.45
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
|
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS |
|
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- *.medicalnewstoday.com
- Valid from
- Sep 9, 2025
- Valid to
- Oct 7, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 81
- SAN domains
- *.medicalnewstoday.com, medicalnewstoday.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 12 · H3 0
Links
142 internal · 21 external · 0 broken
Images
8 total · 4 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
59 scripts · 0 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
536 KB · 88.0 KB
Page size
303 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 37
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
No SEO issues detected.
Accessibility issues
- More than 20% of images are missing alt text
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://medicalnewstoday.com
- Final URL
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 354 ms
- HTML size
- 303 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://medicalnewstoday.com → https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does medicalnewstoday.com use?
- medicalnewstoday.com is built with Next.js, WordPress.
- Is medicalnewstoday.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. medicalnewstoday.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Oct 7, 2026.
- Who hosts medicalnewstoday.com?
- medicalnewstoday.com is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
- What is medicalnewstoday.com's SEO score?
- medicalnewstoday.com scored 100/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is medicalnewstoday.com's overall website score?
- medicalnewstoday.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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