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Serial Productions - The New York Times

Last scanned Aug 4, 2026, 8:00 AM · 8 views

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. This website uses Google Ads. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (75/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. “Serial” began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show “This American Life.” In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.

Top issues to fix

5 issues found

  • 5 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.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search 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.

  • 9 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

75

Performance

441 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 27, 2026

Overall
89
SEO
85
Security
100
Performance
75
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. “Serial” began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show “This American Life.” In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.

Meta tags

Title
Serial Productions - The New York Times
Description
Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. “Serial” began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show “This American Life.” In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.
Canonical
https://www.nytimes.com/column/serial
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Serial Productions
og:description
Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. “Serial” began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show “This American Life.” In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.
og:type
article
og:url
https://www.nytimes.com/column/serial

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
DigiCert Inc
Subject
nytimes.com
Valid from
Feb 27, 2026
Valid to
Sep 13, 2026
Days until expiry
40
SAN domains
nytimes.com, www.homedelivery.nytimes.com, *.api.dev.nytimes.com, *.api.nytimes.com, *.api.stg.nytimes.com, *.blogs.nytimes.com, *.blogs.stg.nytimes.com, *.dev.nyt.com, *.dev.nyt.net, *.dev.nytimes.com, *.newsdev.nyt.net, *.newsdev.nytimes.com, *.nyt.com, *.nyt.net, *.nytco.com, *.nytimes.com, *.payflow.sbx.nytimes.com, *.sbx.nytimes.com, *.stg.newsdev.nyt.net, *.stg.newsdev.nytimes.com, *.stg.nyt.com, *.stg.nyt.net, *.stg.nytimes.com, *.timestalks.com, nyt.com, nyt.net, nytco.com, timestalks.com, *.myaccount-preview.stg.nytimes.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 5 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 7 · H3 14

Links

41 internal · 14 external · 9 broken

Images

22 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

33 scripts · 28 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

2.2 MB · 80.1 KB

Page size

585 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
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://serialpodcast.org
Final URL
https://www.nytimes.com/column/serial
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
430 ms
HTML size
585 KB
Redirect chain
https://serialpodcast.org → https://www.nytimes.com/column/serial

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does serialpodcast.org use?
serialpodcast.org is built with Google Ads.
Is serialpodcast.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. serialpodcast.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Sep 13, 2026.
Who hosts serialpodcast.org?
Hosting provider information for serialpodcast.org is not available yet.
What is serialpodcast.org's SEO score?
serialpodcast.org scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is serialpodcast.org's overall website score?
serialpodcast.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has serialpodcast.org's score changed over time?
serialpodcast.org's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 90 to 89) since Jul 27, 2026.