serialpodcast.org
Serial Productions - The New York Times
Last scanned Aug 4, 2026, 8:00 AM · 8 views
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
SecuritySet 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
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
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.
9 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
441 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- 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
- 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.
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