newscientist.com
New Scientist | Science news, articles, and features
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
5 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.
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 hosted on Fastly behind Fastly CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
1.20 s
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
- 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
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
- 146
- 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
97 internal · 14 external · 0 broken
Images
31 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
29 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
116 KB · 184 KB
Page size
202 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 33
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- No H1 heading 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
- 1.20 s
- HTML size
- 202 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?
- newscientist.com is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is newscientist.com's SEO score?
- newscientist.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is newscientist.com's overall website score?
- newscientist.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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