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politico.com

Politics, Policy, Political News - POLITICO

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 1:00 PM · 8 views

84

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

    Security

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

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add 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

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

70

SEO

4 issue(s) found

90

Performance

289 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

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

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
Nobody knows politics like POLITICO.
og:type
website
og:url
http://politi.co/11aRJyl

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

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.