What technology does securedrop.org use?

We did not detect any specific technologies for securedrop.org in the latest scan.

Is securedrop.org secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. securedrop.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 18, 2026.

Who hosts securedrop.org?

Hosting provider information for securedrop.org is not available yet.

What is securedrop.org's SEO score?

securedrop.org scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is securedrop.org's overall website score?

securedrop.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

securedrop.org

Share and accept documents securely

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:21 PM

Overall score

Great

Summary

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to securely accept documents from anonymous sources. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to securely accept documents from anonymous sources. It was originally coded by the late Aaron Swartz and is now managed by Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found

Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEO
Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEO
Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEO
Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEO
Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

SEO

6 issue(s) found

Performance

1.09 s

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

X (Twitter)

Meta tags

Title: Share and accept documents securely
Description: SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to securely accept documents from anonymous sources. It was originally coded by the late Aaron Swartz and is now managed by Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Canonical
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

No technologies detected.

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: securedrop.org
Valid from: Aug 20, 2026
Valid to: Nov 18, 2026
Days until expiry: 85
SAN domains: securedrop.org, *.securedrop.org

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
Referrer-PolicyEnabled
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 4 · H2 16 · H3 12

Links

24 internal · 17 external · 20 broken

Images

28 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

3 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

0 B · 0 B

Page size

622 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
Missing canonical link
Multiple H1 headings found
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://securedrop.org
Final URL: https://securedrop.org
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 1.08 s
HTML size: 622 KB
Redirect chain: https://securedrop.org

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does securedrop.org use?: We did not detect any specific technologies for securedrop.org in the latest scan.
Is securedrop.org secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. securedrop.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 18, 2026.
Who hosts securedrop.org?: Hosting provider information for securedrop.org is not available yet.
What is securedrop.org's SEO score?: securedrop.org scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is securedrop.org's overall website score?: securedrop.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.