straightdope.com
The Straight Dope - The Straight Dope
Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 7:00 AM · 7 views
Overall score
Fair
Summary
This website uses Google Analytics. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (60/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.
Top issues to fix
10 issues found · 4 high priority
TLS certificate expires in 12 days
SecurityRenew now (or enable auto-renewal) — an expired certificate blocks visitors with a full-page browser warning.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing meta description
SEOAdd a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
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.
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.
+4 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
383 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 78
- SEO
- 65
- Security
- 60
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 90
Meta tags
- Title
- The Straight Dope - The Straight Dope
- Description
- Canonical
- https://www.straightdope.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=5
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- 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
- Amazon
- Subject
- origin.cst-web.production.chorus.brightspot.cloud
- Valid from
- Jul 16, 2025
- Valid to
- Aug 14, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 12
- SAN domains
- origin.cst-web.production.chorus.brightspot.cloud, verify.cms.cst-web.production.chorus.brightspot.cloud, www.straightdope.com, cst.brightspotcdn.com, wbez.org, suntimeswire.com, cms.cst-web.production.chorus.brightspot.cloud, www.wbez.org, vocalo.org, www.vocalo.org, www.chicago.suntimes.com, verify.origin.cst-web.production.chorus.brightspot.cloud, cst-web.production.chorus.brightspot.cloud, straightdope.com, chicago.suntimes.com, static.cst-web.production.chorus.brightspot.cloud, www.suntimeswire.com, beta.vocalo.org, *.origin.cst-web.production.chorus.brightspot.cloud, *.cst-web.production.chorus.brightspot.cloud, cms.chicago.suntimes.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 0
Links
32 internal · 2 external · 20 broken
Images
20 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
17 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
7.2 KB · 2.1 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
- Missing meta description
- No H1 heading found
- Missing OpenGraph tags
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://straightdope.com
- Final URL
- https://straightdope.com
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 380 ms
- HTML size
- 163 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://straightdope.com
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does straightdope.com use?
- straightdope.com is built with Google Analytics.
- Is straightdope.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. straightdope.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Aug 14, 2026.
- Who hosts straightdope.com?
- Hosting provider information for straightdope.com is not available yet.
- What is straightdope.com's SEO score?
- straightdope.com scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is straightdope.com's overall website score?
- straightdope.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 78/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has straightdope.com's score changed over time?
- straightdope.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 81 to 78) since Jul 26, 2026.
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