politico.com
Politics, Policy, Political News - POLITICO
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 1:00 PM · 8 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Nobody knows politics like POLITICO. This website uses Cloudflare Analytics behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
Nobody knows politics like POLITICO.
Top issues to fix
6 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.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
289 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-4 overall since Jul 18, 2026
- Overall
- 84
- SEO
- 70
- Security
- 90
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Nobody knows politics like POLITICO.
Meta tags
- Title
- Politics, Policy, Political News - POLITICO
- Description
- Nobody knows politics like POLITICO.
- Canonical
- https://www.politico.com/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
- https://www.politico.com:443/site.webmanifest?v=2
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- www.politico.com
- Valid from
- Jul 10, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 8, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 70
- SAN domains
- www.politico.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 28 · H3 89
Links
3 internal · 219 external · 20 broken
Images
76 total · 2 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
24 scripts · 5 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
23.0 KB · 1.8 KB
Page size
343 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
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://politico.com
- Final URL
- https://www.politico.com:443/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 282 ms
- HTML size
- 343 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://politico.com → https://www.politico.com:443/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does politico.com use?
- politico.com is built with jQuery, Cloudflare Analytics.
- Is politico.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. politico.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 8, 2026.
- Who hosts politico.com?
- Hosting provider information for politico.com is not available yet.
- What is politico.com's SEO score?
- politico.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is politico.com's overall website score?
- politico.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has politico.com's score changed over time?
- politico.com's overall score has declined by 4 points (from 88 to 84) since Jul 18, 2026.
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