smithsonianmag.com
Smithsonian Magazine: Explore History, Science, Arts & Culture
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Excellent
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEOAdd og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
3 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
Summary
Discover the latest stories in history, archaeology, science, arts and culture from one of the top news magazines. This website uses Google Analytics hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
263 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Smithsonian Magazine
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Smithsonian Magazine: Explore History, Science, Arts & Culture
- Description
- Discover the latest stories in history, archaeology, science, arts and culture from one of the top news magazines. Smithsonian Magazine brings you compelling, in-depth articles every day.
- Canonical
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, max-image-preview:large, follow, archive
- Manifest
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com:443/manifest.json
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- Cloudflare
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- 172.66.151.126
- ASN
- AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
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| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- www.smithsonianmag.com
- Valid from
- Jun 13, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 11, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 54
- SAN domains
- www.smithsonianmag.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 14 · H3 47
Links
92 internal · 40 external · 3 broken
Images
49 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
29 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
322 KB · 0 B
Page size
114 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 13
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- Missing OpenGraph tags
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://smithsonianmag.com
- Final URL
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com:443/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 261 ms
- HTML size
- 114 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://smithsonianmag.com → https://www.smithsonianmag.com:443/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does smithsonianmag.com use?
- smithsonianmag.com is built with Google Analytics, Cloudflare Analytics, Meta Pixel.
- Is smithsonianmag.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. smithsonianmag.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 11, 2026.
- Who hosts smithsonianmag.com?
- smithsonianmag.com is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
- What is smithsonianmag.com's SEO score?
- smithsonianmag.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is smithsonianmag.com's overall website score?
- smithsonianmag.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates smithsonianmag.com?
- smithsonianmag.com is operated by Smithsonian Magazine.
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