the-independent.com
The Independent | Latest US politics news, comment and analysis
Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 6:25 AM · 2 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Latest news, comment and features from The Independent US. This website is hosted on Fastly. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (75/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
The Independent
Latest news, comment and features from The Independent US
- United States
- Hosted on Fastly
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
Independent Premium
$99 USD
Top issues to fix
5 issues found
16 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.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).
1 broken link on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
135 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 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.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Independent | Latest US politics news, comment and analysis
- Description
- Latest news, comment and features from The Independent US
- Canonical
- https://www.independent.co.uk/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large,max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
- https://www.the-independent.com/manifest.json
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
No technologies detected.
Hosting & CDN
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- *.the-independent.com
- Valid from
- Jul 4, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 2, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 69
- SAN domains
- *.the-independent.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 18 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 11 · H2 96 · H3 2
Links
220 internal · 25 external · 1 broken
Images
77 total · 19 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
22 scripts · 0 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.5 MB · 55.8 KB
Page size
304 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 44
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- 500
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- Multiple H1 headings found
Accessibility issues
- More than 20% of images are missing alt text
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://the-independent.com
- Final URL
- https://www.the-independent.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 129 ms
- HTML size
- 304 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://the-independent.com → https://www.the-independent.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does the-independent.com use?
- We did not detect any specific technologies for the-independent.com in the latest scan.
- Is the-independent.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. the-independent.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 2, 2026.
- Who hosts the-independent.com?
- the-independent.com is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is the-independent.com's SEO score?
- the-independent.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is the-independent.com's overall website score?
- the-independent.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates the-independent.com?
- the-independent.com is operated by The Independent. Latest news, comment and features from The Independent US
- What products does the-independent.com offer?
- the-independent.com offers Independent Premium.
- Is the-independent.com hiring?
- the-independent.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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