sixthtone.com
Fresh voices from today's China | Sixth Tone
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:47 AM
Overall score
Fair
Summary
Sixth Tone is an online publication that produces informed and insightful content on contemporary China. This website uses Next.js hosted on ZEN-ECN - Zenlayer Inc, US. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is fair (50/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance good (85/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
Sixth Tone is an online publication that produces informed and insightful content on contemporary China. Like an additional tone to the five of Mandarin Chinese, Sixth Tone offers a new voice to coverage of China, placing the emphasis on the human element of every story. Through in-depth features, up-to-the-minute reports on emerging issues, and illuminating contributions from guest writers, Sixth Tone seeks to uncover what China’s most pressing issues and news mean for real Chinese people.
- Singapore
- Hosted on ZEN-ECN - Zenlayer Inc, US
Top issues to fix
12 issues found · 4 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.
Over half of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to images — screen readers depend on them, and they help image SEO.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
+6 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
554 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
3 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Sixth Tone is an online publication that produces informed and insightful content on contemporary China. Like an additional tone to the five of Mandarin Chinese, Sixth Tone offers a new voice to coverage of China, placing the emphasis on the human element of every story. Through in-depth features, up-to-the-minute reports on emerging issues, and illuminating contributions from guest writers, Sixth Tone seeks to uncover what China’s most pressing issues and news mean for real Chinese people.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Fresh voices from today's China | Sixth Tone
- Description
- Sixth Tone is an online publication that produces informed and insightful content on contemporary China. Like an additional tone to the five of Mandarin Chinese, Sixth Tone offers a new voice to coverage of China, placing the emphasis on the human element of every story. Through in-depth features, up-to-the-minute reports on emerging issues, and illuminating contributions from guest writers, Sixth Tone seeks to uncover what China’s most pressing issues and news mean for real Chinese people.
- Canonical
- https://www.sixthtone.com/
- Language
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimal-ui, user-scalable=0
- Robots meta
- index, follow
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- ZEN-ECN - Zenlayer Inc, US
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 129.227.213.131
- ASN
- AS21859 (ZEN-ECN - Zenlayer Inc, US)
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
- *.sixthtone.com
- Valid from
- Nov 27, 2025
- Valid to
- Dec 28, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 155
- SAN domains
- *.sixthtone.com, sixthtone.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 0
Links
60 internal · 2 external · 0 broken
Images
47 total · 46 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
17 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.1 MB · 205 KB
Page size
163 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
- No H1 heading found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- Over half of images are missing alt text
- No H1 heading found
- Missing <html lang> attribute
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://sixthtone.com
- Final URL
- https://www.sixthtone.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 551 ms
- HTML size
- 163 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://sixthtone.com → https://www.sixthtone.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does sixthtone.com use?
- sixthtone.com is built with Next.js, Google Analytics.
- Is sixthtone.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. sixthtone.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Dec 28, 2026.
- Who hosts sixthtone.com?
- sixthtone.com is hosted on ZEN-ECN - Zenlayer Inc, US.
- What is sixthtone.com's SEO score?
- sixthtone.com scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is sixthtone.com's overall website score?
- sixthtone.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 67/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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