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shanghaiist.com

Shanghaiist - China in bite-sized portions!

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 4:17 PM

87

Overall score

Great

Summary

Founded in 2005, Shanghaiist has emerged as one of the most popular English-language websites about China, covering local news, events, food, and entertainment for a diverse audience of young and affluent urbanites. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Founded in 2005, Shanghaiist has emerged as one of the most popular English-language websites about China, covering local news, events, food, and entertainment for a diverse audience of young and affluent urbanites.

Top issues to fix

5 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.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

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

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

80

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

118 ms

80

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 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.

Founded in 2005, Shanghaiist has emerged as one of the most popular English-language websites about China, covering local news, events, food, and entertainment for a diverse audience of young and affluent urbanites.

Meta tags

Title
Shanghaiist - China in bite-sized portions!
Description
Founded in 2005, Shanghaiist has emerged as one of the most popular English-language websites about China, covering local news, events, food, and entertainment for a diverse audience of young and affluent urbanites.
Canonical
https://shanghaiist.com/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=yes
Robots meta
follow, index
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Shanghaiist - China in bite-sized portions!
og:description
Founded in 2005, Shanghaiist has emerged as one of the most popular English-language websites about China, covering local news, events, food, and entertainment for a diverse audience of young and affluent urbanites.
og:type
website
og:url
https://shanghaiist.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Shanghaiist - China in bite-sized portions!
twitter:description
Founded in 2005, Shanghaiist has emerged as one of the most popular English-language websites about China, covering local news, events, food, and entertainment for a diverse audience of young and affluent urbanites.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
104.21.5.164
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 104.21.5.164
  • 172.67.133.160
AAAA
  • 2606:4700:3036::ac43:85a0
  • 2606:4700:3033::6815:5a4
MX
  • route2.mx.cloudflare.net
  • route1.mx.cloudflare.net
  • route3.mx.cloudflare.net
TXT
  • v=spf1 include:_spf.mx.cloudflare.net include:spf.cyberpersons.com ~all
  • google-site-verification=gCwtPtiFX_KLF6kFt5B3H3bQKIM1esx56hOF01hLMPA
  • brevo-code:50daad5dd4db0b79a7e49aa33baaa6d2
NS
  • lars.ns.cloudflare.com
  • chin.ns.cloudflare.com
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
shanghaiist.com
Valid from
Jul 21, 2026
Valid to
Oct 19, 2026
Days until expiry
82
SAN domains
shanghaiist.com, *.shanghaiist.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 32

Links

50 internal · 6 external · 0 broken

Images

33 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

40 scripts · 12 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

60.5 KB · 52.7 KB

Page size

219 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • No H1 heading found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • No H1 heading found

Scan details

Requested URL
https://shanghaiist.com
Final URL
https://shanghaiist.com
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
114 ms
HTML size
219 KB
Redirect chain
https://shanghaiist.com

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does shanghaiist.com use?
shanghaiist.com is built with WordPress, WooCommerce, jQuery, Google Analytics, Cloudflare Analytics.
Is shanghaiist.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. shanghaiist.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 19, 2026.
Who hosts shanghaiist.com?
Hosting provider information for shanghaiist.com is not available yet.
What is shanghaiist.com's SEO score?
shanghaiist.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is shanghaiist.com's overall website score?
shanghaiist.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.