popsci.com
Popular Science | Science and Technology Stories Since 1872
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 12:33 PM · 2 views
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
5 issues found · 2 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.
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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Summary
Awe-inspiring science reporting, technology news, and DIY projects. This website uses WordPress hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US. SEO is excellent (95/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
11 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 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
- Popular Science | Science and Technology Stories Since 1872
- Description
- Awe-inspiring science reporting, technology news, and DIY projects. Skunks to space robots, primates to climates. That's Popular Science, for over 150 years strong.
- Canonical
- https://www.popsci.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
- 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
- 192.0.66.194
- ASN
- AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
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| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- popsci.com
- Valid from
- Jun 3, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 1, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 42
- SAN domains
- popsci.com, www.popsci.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 1 · H2 10 · H3 27
Links
101 internal · 17 external · 0 broken
Images
35 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
34 scripts · 5 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
591 KB · 613 KB
Page size
148 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 6
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://popsci.com
- Final URL
- https://www.popsci.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 8 ms
- HTML size
- 148 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://popsci.com → https://www.popsci.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does popsci.com use?
- popsci.com is built with WordPress, Nginx.
- Is popsci.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. popsci.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 1, 2026.
- Who hosts popsci.com?
- popsci.com is hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US.
- What is popsci.com's SEO score?
- popsci.com scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is popsci.com's overall website score?
- popsci.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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