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substack.com

Substack

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 11:00 AM · 13 views

83

Overall score

Great

Summary

The app for independent voices. This website uses Express behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.

The app for independent voices

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 1 high priority

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add 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

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • 6 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.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

4 issue(s) found

90

Performance

627 ms

85

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

-3 overall since Jul 15, 2026

Overall
83
SEO
70
Security
85
Performance
90
Accessibility
90

Organization

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

The app for independent voices

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
Substack
Description
The app for independent voices
Canonical
https://substack.com/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0, viewport-fit=cover
Robots meta
Manifest
https://substack.com/manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Substack
og:description
The app for independent voices
og:type
article
og:url
https://substack.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
Substack
twitter:description
The app for independent voices

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
substack.com
Valid from
Jul 22, 2026
Valid to
Oct 20, 2026
Days until expiry
82
SAN domains
substack.com, *.substack.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 9 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 1

Links

19 internal · 4 external · 20 broken

Images

10 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

138 scripts · 13 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

678 KB · 7.4 KB

Page size

824 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • No H1 heading found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • No H1 heading found

Scan details

Requested URL
https://substack.com
Final URL
https://substack.com
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
611 ms
HTML size
824 KB
Redirect chain
https://substack.com

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does substack.com use?
substack.com is built with Express, Node.js, Cloudflare Analytics.
Is substack.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. substack.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 20, 2026.
Who hosts substack.com?
Hosting provider information for substack.com is not available yet.
What is substack.com's SEO score?
substack.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is substack.com's overall website score?
substack.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has substack.com's score changed over time?
substack.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 86 to 83) since Jul 15, 2026.