newscientist.com
New Scientist | Science news, articles, and features
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 11 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine. This website uses WordPress behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.
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.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
735 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
0 overall since Jul 18, 2026
- Overall
- 86
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.
Meta tags
- Title
- New Scientist | Science news, articles, and features
- Description
- Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.
- Canonical
- https://www.newscientist.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Fastly
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.2
- Issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa
- Subject
- www.newscientist.com
- Valid from
- Nov 10, 2025
- Valid to
- Dec 12, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 136
- SAN domains
- www.newscientist.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 0 · H2 14 · H3 51
Links
96 internal · 13 external · 20 broken
Images
31 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
29 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
9.7 KB · 50.6 KB
Page size
201 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://newscientist.com
- Final URL
- https://www.newscientist.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 731 ms
- HTML size
- 201 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://newscientist.com → https://www.newscientist.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does newscientist.com use?
- newscientist.com is built with WordPress, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is newscientist.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. newscientist.com uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 12, 2026.
- Who hosts newscientist.com?
- Hosting provider information for newscientist.com is not available yet.
- What is newscientist.com's SEO score?
- newscientist.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is newscientist.com's overall website score?
- newscientist.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has newscientist.com's score changed over time?
- newscientist.com's overall score has stayed steady at 86/100 since Jul 18, 2026.
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