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plosmedicine.org

PLOS Medicine

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM

85

Overall score

Great

Summary

This website uses Apache. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (95/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

Top issues to fix

9 issues found · 3 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • Missing meta description

    SEO

    Add a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.

  • Missing viewport meta tag

    Accessibility

    Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> — without it the site is broken on mobile.

  • TLS certificate expires in 17 days

    Security

    Renew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.

  • 1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • Missing canonical link

    SEO

    Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

+3 more issues — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

4 issue(s) found

90

Performance

702 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

95

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

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
PLOS Medicine
Description
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
35.190.43.188
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 35.190.43.188
AAAA
MX
TXT
  • google-site-verification=3e68u41bhYpazUkxFulJbrqVAPaEErzfNfJviPZ2aaU
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Gandi SAS
Subject
*.plos.org
Valid from
Feb 25, 2026
Valid to
Sep 11, 2026
Days until expiry
17
SAN domains
*.plos.org, plos.org

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • Content-Security-PolicyMissing
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
  • Referrer-PolicyMissing
  • Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 11 · H3 14

Links

41 internal · 24 external · 2 broken

Images

14 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

60 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

79.9 KB · 2.0 MB

Page size

74.8 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
3
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
-1

SEO issues

  • Missing meta description
  • Missing canonical link
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags

Accessibility issues

  • Missing viewport meta tag

Scan details

Requested URL
https://plosmedicine.org
Final URL
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
701 ms
HTML size
74.8 KB
Redirect chain
https://plosmedicine.org → https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine → https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does plosmedicine.org use?
plosmedicine.org is built with jQuery, Google Analytics, Apache.
Is plosmedicine.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. plosmedicine.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Gandi SAS, valid until Sep 11, 2026.
Who hosts plosmedicine.org?
Hosting provider information for plosmedicine.org is not available yet.
What is plosmedicine.org's SEO score?
plosmedicine.org scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is plosmedicine.org's overall website score?
plosmedicine.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.