onion.com
Home - The Onion
Last scanned Jul 22, 2026, 5:57 PM · 1 view
Overall score
Fair
Summary
The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source. This website uses WordPress hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance fair (65/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.
- United States
- Hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 3 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.
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 broken link on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
549 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Source: https://theonion.com/contact
Meta tags
- Title
- Home - The Onion
- Description
- The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.
- Canonical
- https://theonion.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
- AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 192.0.66.48
- ASN
- AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
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
- theonion.com
- Valid from
- Jun 28, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 26, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 65
- SAN domains
- theonion.com, www.theonion.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 19 · H3 63
Links
80 internal · 16 external · 1 broken
Images
59 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
80 scripts · 7 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.5 MB · 1.0 MB
Page size
431 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 35
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://onion.com
- Final URL
- https://theonion.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 541 ms
- HTML size
- 431 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://onion.com → https://theonion.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does onion.com use?
- onion.com is built with WordPress, WooCommerce, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel, Nginx.
- Is onion.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. onion.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 26, 2026.
- Who hosts onion.com?
- onion.com is hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US.
- What is onion.com's SEO score?
- onion.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is onion.com's overall website score?
- onion.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 78/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is onion.com hiring?
- onion.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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