mercurynews.com
The Mercury News - Bay Area news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 3:00 PM · 7 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
The Mercury News is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
The Mercury News is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and beyond
Top issues to fix
8 issues found
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.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
2.94 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+6 overall since Jul 21, 2026
- Overall
- 86
- SEO
- 75
- Security
- 85
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Mercury News is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and beyond
Meta tags
- Title
- The Mercury News - Bay Area news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary
- Description
- The Mercury News is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and beyond
- Canonical
- https://www.mercurynews.com
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- 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
- mercurynews.com
- Valid from
- Jun 9, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 7, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 40
- SAN domains
- mercurynews.com, www.mercurynews.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 2 · H2 19 · H3 88
Links
175 internal · 33 external · 20 broken
Images
38 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
65 scripts · 10 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
15.6 KB · 46.3 KB
Page size
258 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- Multiple H1 headings found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://mercurynews.com
- Final URL
- https://www.mercurynews.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 2.94 s
- HTML size
- 258 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://mercurynews.com → https://www.mercurynews.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does mercurynews.com use?
- mercurynews.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Nginx.
- Is mercurynews.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. mercurynews.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 7, 2026.
- Who hosts mercurynews.com?
- Hosting provider information for mercurynews.com is not available yet.
- What is mercurynews.com's SEO score?
- mercurynews.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is mercurynews.com's overall website score?
- mercurynews.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has mercurynews.com's score changed over time?
- mercurynews.com's overall score has improved by 6 points (from 80 to 86) since Jul 21, 2026.
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