snopes.com
Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM · 2 views
Overall score
Fair
Top issues to fix
8 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.
Slow estimated load (10.2s)
PerformanceUse a CDN, enable caching/compression, and cut render-blocking assets — every extra second costs conversions.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
Summary
The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. This website uses Google Analytics behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance fair (60/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
10.22 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- foo@bar.com
Meta tags
- Title
- Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
- Description
- The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
- Canonical
- https://www.snopes.com/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- snopes.com
- Valid from
- Jul 7, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 5, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 76
- SAN domains
- *.snopes.com, snopes.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 2 · H3 54
Links
92 internal · 9 external · 2 broken
Images
63 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
47 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
66.3 KB · 340 KB
Page size
579 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
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://snopes.com
- Final URL
- https://www.snopes.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 10.21 s
- HTML size
- 579 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://snopes.com → https://www.snopes.com/
Related websites
Same technology stack
flippingbook.com
FlippingBook | Flipbook Maker for Digital Publishing
beebom.com
Beebom - Tech That Matters
okx.com
Buy Bitcoin & Crypto | Crypto Exchange, App & Wallet | OKX
forter.com
Forter – Agentic Intelligence you can trust
giantpanda.com
GiANT PANDA | Domain Traffic Monetization for Domainers
fas.org
Home - Federation of American Scientists
Frequently asked questions
- What technology does snopes.com use?
- snopes.com is built with Google Analytics.
- Is snopes.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. snopes.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 5, 2026.
- Who hosts snopes.com?
- Hosting provider information for snopes.com is not available yet.
- What is snopes.com's SEO score?
- snopes.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is snopes.com's overall website score?
- snopes.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 79/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
OpenGraph & Twitter Card
OpenGraph
Twitter Card