shanghaiist.com
Shanghaiist - China in bite-sized portions!
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 4:17 PM
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
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd 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
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
118 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- 104.21.5.164
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA |
|
| MX |
|
| TXT |
|
| NS |
|
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
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.
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