sciencenews.org
Science News | The latest news from all areas of science
Last scanned Jul 31, 2026, 10:00 PM · 15 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Science News features news articles, videos and more about the latest scientific advances. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.
Science News features news articles, videos and more about the latest scientific advances. Independent, accurate nonprofit news since 1921.
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
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.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
716 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-1 overall since Jul 24, 2026
- Overall
- 88
- SEO
- 90
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Science News features news articles, videos and more about the latest scientific advances. Independent, accurate nonprofit news since 1921.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Science News | The latest news from all areas of science
- Description
- Science News features news articles, videos and more about the latest scientific advances. Independent, accurate nonprofit news since 1921.
- Canonical
- https://www.sciencenews.org
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- follow, index
- 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.sciencenews.org
- Valid from
- Jul 2, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 30, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 60
- SAN domains
- www.sciencenews.org
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: none · 2 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 14 · H3 57
Links
148 internal · 13 external · 20 broken
Images
29 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
33 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
569 KB · 63.6 KB
Page size
834 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://sciencenews.org
- Final URL
- https://www.sciencenews.org/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 699 ms
- HTML size
- 834 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://sciencenews.org → https://www.sciencenews.org/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does sciencenews.org use?
- sciencenews.org is built with Svelte, WordPress, Google Analytics, Google Ads.
- Is sciencenews.org secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. sciencenews.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 30, 2026.
- Who hosts sciencenews.org?
- Hosting provider information for sciencenews.org is not available yet.
- What is sciencenews.org's SEO score?
- sciencenews.org scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is sciencenews.org's overall website score?
- sciencenews.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has sciencenews.org's score changed over time?
- sciencenews.org's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 89 to 88) since Jul 24, 2026.
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