popsci.com
Popular Science | Science and Technology Stories Since 1872
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 5:00 PM · 8 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Awe-inspiring science reporting, technology news, and DIY projects. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
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.
Top issues to fix
8 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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
1.52 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 21, 2026
- Overall
- 84
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
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
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- 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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- popsci.com
- Valid from
- Jun 3, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 1, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 34
- 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 9 · H3 27
Links
104 internal · 15 external · 20 broken
Images
36 total · 1 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
36 scripts · 6 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
6.7 KB · 16.7 KB
Page size
146 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
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
- 1.52 s
- HTML size
- 146 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, Google Analytics, 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?
- Hosting provider information for popsci.com is not available yet.
- What is popsci.com's SEO score?
- popsci.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is popsci.com's overall website score?
- popsci.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has popsci.com's score changed over time?
- popsci.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 87 to 84) since Jul 21, 2026.
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