metafilter.com
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 7:00 PM · 8 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
MetaFilter is a community weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to. This website uses Google Ads behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.
MetaFilter is a community weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to.
Top issues to fix
11 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
6 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.
Missing canonical link
SEOAdd <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
+5 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
329 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+1 overall since Jul 25, 2026
- Overall
- 82
- SEO
- 70
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Meta tags
- Title
- MetaFilter | Community Weblog
- Description
- MetaFilter is a community weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to.
- Canonical
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- 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
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- metafilter.com
- Valid from
- Jun 24, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 22, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 51
- SAN domains
- metafilter.com, *.metafilter.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 6 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 63 · H3 1
Links
126 internal · 114 external · 20 broken
Images
0 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
9 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
3.4 KB · 241 B
Page size
68.6 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- 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://metafilter.com
- Final URL
- https://www.metafilter.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 328 ms
- HTML size
- 68.6 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://metafilter.com → https://www.metafilter.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does metafilter.com use?
- metafilter.com is built with Google Ads.
- Is metafilter.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. metafilter.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 22, 2026.
- Who hosts metafilter.com?
- Hosting provider information for metafilter.com is not available yet.
- What is metafilter.com's SEO score?
- metafilter.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is metafilter.com's overall website score?
- metafilter.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has metafilter.com's score changed over time?
- metafilter.com's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 81 to 82) since Jul 25, 2026.
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