sciencealert.com
ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 3 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.
Slow estimated load (11.5s)
PerformanceUse a CDN, enable caching/compression, and cut render-blocking assets — every extra second costs conversions.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
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.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
Summary
The latest science news. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
11.51 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Meta tags
- Title
- ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs
- Description
- The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.
- Canonical
- https://www.sciencealert.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no, maximum-scale=12.0, minimum-scale=.25, user-scalable=yes
- 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
- 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.sciencealert.com
- Valid from
- Jun 16, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 14, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 54
- SAN domains
- www.sciencealert.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 0
Links
47 internal · 3 external · 1 broken
Images
17 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
36 scripts · 0 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
256 KB · 72.6 KB
Page size
191 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://sciencealert.com
- Final URL
- https://www.sciencealert.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 11.51 s
- HTML size
- 191 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://sciencealert.com → https://www.sciencealert.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does sciencealert.com use?
- sciencealert.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics.
- Is sciencealert.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. sciencealert.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 14, 2026.
- Who hosts sciencealert.com?
- Hosting provider information for sciencealert.com is not available yet.
- What is sciencealert.com's SEO score?
- sciencealert.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is sciencealert.com's overall website score?
- sciencealert.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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