pragmaticengineer.com
The Pragmatic Engineer
Last scanned Aug 5, 2026, 11:00 PM · 11 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
I write a newsletter, a blog and published a few books. This website uses Plausible Analytics hosted on AWS behind Netlify CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.
I write a newsletter, a blog and published a few books. The Pragmatic Engineer is the #1 newsletter for engineering managers and senior engineers.
- United States
- Hosted on AWS
Top issues to fix
10 issues found · 1 high priority
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.
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.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
+4 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
449 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
0 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 83
- SEO
- 70
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
I write a newsletter, a blog and published a few books. The Pragmatic Engineer is the #1 newsletter for engineering managers and senior engineers.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Pragmatic Engineer
- Description
- I write a newsletter, a blog and published a few books. The Pragmatic Engineer is the #1 newsletter for engineering managers and senior engineers.
- Canonical
- Language
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
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
- www.pragmaticengineer.com
- Valid from
- Jun 24, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 22, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 47
- SAN domains
- gergelyorosz.com, pragmaticengineer.com, www.pragmaticengineer.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 2 · H2 0 · H3 30
Links
1 internal · 77 external · 1 broken
Images
31 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
8 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
102 KB · 51.3 KB
Page size
73.1 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Missing canonical link
- Multiple H1 headings found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- Missing <html lang> attribute
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://pragmaticengineer.com
- Final URL
- https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 448 ms
- HTML size
- 73.1 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://pragmaticengineer.com → https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does pragmaticengineer.com use?
- pragmaticengineer.com is built with jQuery, Google Analytics, Plausible Analytics.
- Is pragmaticengineer.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. pragmaticengineer.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 22, 2026.
- Who hosts pragmaticengineer.com?
- pragmaticengineer.com is hosted on AWS, behind Netlify CDN.
- What is pragmaticengineer.com's SEO score?
- pragmaticengineer.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is pragmaticengineer.com's overall website score?
- pragmaticengineer.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has pragmaticengineer.com's score changed over time?
- pragmaticengineer.com's overall score has stayed steady at 83/100 since Jul 26, 2026.
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