plosone.org
PLOS One
Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 2:25 PM · 2 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
This website uses Apache hosted on Google Cloud. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (95/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (75/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.
- United States
- Hosted on Google Cloud
Top issues to fix
9 issues found · 3 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing meta description
SEOAdd a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
Missing viewport meta tag
AccessibilityAdd <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> — without it the site is broken on mobile.
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.
Missing canonical link
SEOAdd <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
+3 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
716 ms
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
- PLOS One
- Description
- Canonical
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- Google Cloud
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 35.190.43.188
- ASN
- AS396982 (GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT |
|
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
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
- 48
- 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 2 · H2 12 · H3 9
Links
62 internal · 42 external · 1 broken
Images
13 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
47 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.6 MB · 517 KB
Page size
71.2 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
- Multiple H1 headings found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- Missing OpenGraph tags
Accessibility issues
- Missing viewport meta tag
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://plosone.org
- Final URL
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 715 ms
- HTML size
- 71.2 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://plosone.org → https://journals.plos.org/plosone → https://journals.plos.org/plosone/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does plosone.org use?
- plosone.org is built with jQuery, Apache.
- Is plosone.org secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. plosone.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Gandi SAS, valid until Sep 11, 2026.
- Who hosts plosone.org?
- plosone.org is hosted on Google Cloud.
- What is plosone.org's SEO score?
- plosone.org scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is plosone.org's overall website score?
- plosone.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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