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semanticscholar.org

Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 6 views

83

Overall score

Great

Summary

Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research. This website uses Nginx behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.

Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

Top issues to fix

9 issues found · 3 high priority

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

    Security

    Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • 2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

+3 more issues — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

4 issue(s) found

100

Performance

493 ms

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

+1 overall since Jul 18, 2026

Overall
83
SEO
70
Security
75
Performance
100
Accessibility
90

Organization

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

Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

Meta tags

Title
Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool
Description
Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.
Canonical
https://www.semanticscholar.org/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1
Robots meta
noarchive
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool
og:description
Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.
og:type
website
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool
twitter:description
Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
CloudFront
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Amazon
Subject
*.semanticscholar.org
Valid from
Jan 7, 2026
Valid to
Feb 4, 2027
Days until expiry
190
SAN domains
*.semanticscholar.org, *.semanticscholar.com, s2.allenai.org, *.s2.allenai.org, semanticscholar.org, semanticscholar.com

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
  • Content-Security-PolicyMissing
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
  • Referrer-PolicyMissing
  • Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 2 · H3 7

Links

17 internal · 9 external · 20 broken

Images

1 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

17 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

71.9 KB · 12.7 KB

Page size

183 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • No H1 heading found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • No H1 heading found

Scan details

Requested URL
https://semanticscholar.org
Final URL
https://www.semanticscholar.org/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/1.1
Response time
490 ms
HTML size
183 KB
Redirect chain
https://semanticscholar.org → https://www.semanticscholar.org/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does semanticscholar.org use?
semanticscholar.org is built with Google Analytics, Nginx.
Is semanticscholar.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. semanticscholar.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Feb 4, 2027.
Who hosts semanticscholar.org?
Hosting provider information for semanticscholar.org is not available yet.
What is semanticscholar.org's SEO score?
semanticscholar.org scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is semanticscholar.org's overall website score?
semanticscholar.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has semanticscholar.org's score changed over time?
semanticscholar.org's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 82 to 83) since Jul 18, 2026.