space.com
Space.com: NASA, Space Exploration and Astronomy News
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 1 high priority
Slow estimated load (13.2s)
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.
2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEOAdd og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
Summary
Get the latest space exploration, innovation and astronomy news. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (95/100) and performance fair (50/100). Top issue: Missing OpenGraph tags.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
13.19 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Space.com: NASA, Space Exploration and Astronomy News
- Description
- Get the latest space exploration, innovation and astronomy news. Space.com celebrates humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier.
- Canonical
- https://www.space.com
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width,initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
No technologies detected.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Fastly
- 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
- www.space.com
- Valid from
- Jun 20, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 18, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 59
- SAN domains
- space.com, www.space.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 9 · H3 27
Links
115 internal · 10 external · 0 broken
Images
43 total · 7 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
77 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
636 KB · 562 KB
Page size
1.4 MB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Missing OpenGraph tags
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://space.com
- Final URL
- https://www.space.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 13.16 s
- HTML size
- 1.4 MB
- Redirect chain
- https://space.com → https://www.space.com/
Frequently asked questions
- What technology does space.com use?
- We did not detect any specific technologies for space.com in the latest scan.
- Is space.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. space.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 18, 2026.
- Who hosts space.com?
- Hosting provider information for space.com is not available yet.
- What is space.com's SEO score?
- space.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is space.com's overall website score?
- space.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
OpenGraph & Twitter Card
OpenGraph
Twitter Card