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Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 8 views

92

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. This website uses Google Analytics behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found

  • 2 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.

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

    Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

  • 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.

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

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

80

SEO

4 issue(s) found

90

Performance

13 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+1 overall since Jul 18, 2026

Overall
92
SEO
80
Security
100
Performance
90
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.

Meta tags

Title
Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
Description
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
Canonical
https://slate.com/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no
Robots meta
max-image-preview:large
Manifest
https://slate.com/media/sites/slate-com/web-app-manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
og:description
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
og:type
website
og:url
https://slate.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
twitter:description
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
slate.com
Valid from
Jul 17, 2026
Valid to
Oct 15, 2026
Days until expiry
78
SAN domains
slate.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 4 · H2 31 · H3 43

Links

111 internal · 15 external · 20 broken

Images

25 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

31 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

212 KB · 108 KB

Page size

463 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Title longer than 60 characters
  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://slate.com
Final URL
https://slate.com
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
4 ms
HTML size
463 KB
Redirect chain
https://slate.com

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does slate.com use?
slate.com is built with Google Analytics.
Is slate.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. slate.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 15, 2026.
Who hosts slate.com?
Hosting provider information for slate.com is not available yet.
What is slate.com's SEO score?
slate.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is slate.com's overall website score?
slate.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has slate.com's score changed over time?
slate.com's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 91 to 92) since Jul 18, 2026.