scientificamerican.com
Scientific American
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Excellent
Top issues to fix
2 issues found
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
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives. This website is hosted on Fastly. SEO is excellent (95/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
215 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
- Scientific American
- Description
- Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
- Canonical
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:standard
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
No technologies detected.
Hosting & CDN
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.2
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- *.scientificamerican.com
- Valid from
- Jun 17, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 15, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 58
- SAN domains
- *.scientificamerican.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 38 · H3 7
Links
77 internal · 6 external · 0 broken
Images
43 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
12 scripts · 9 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
547 KB · 80.2 KB
Page size
476 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 16
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
Science you can trust. Stories that matter.
$39 USD
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://scientificamerican.com
- Final URL
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 206 ms
- HTML size
- 476 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://scientificamerican.com → https://www.scientificamerican.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does scientificamerican.com use?
- We did not detect any specific technologies for scientificamerican.com in the latest scan.
- Is scientificamerican.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. scientificamerican.com uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 15, 2026.
- Who hosts scientificamerican.com?
- scientificamerican.com is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is scientificamerican.com's SEO score?
- scientificamerican.com scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is scientificamerican.com's overall website score?
- scientificamerican.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 94/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What products does scientificamerican.com offer?
- scientificamerican.com offers Science you can trust. Stories that matter..
- Is scientificamerican.com hiring?
- scientificamerican.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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