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?

Hosting provider information for the-independent.com is not available yet.

What is the-independent.com's SEO score?

the-independent.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).

What is the-independent.com's overall website score?

the-independent.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, 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

Has the-independent.com's score changed over time?

the-independent.com's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 88 to 89) since Jul 25, 2026.

the-independent.com

The Independent | Latest US politics news, comment and analysis

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 8:00 AM · 5 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

Latest news, comment and features from The Independent US. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

The Independent

Latest news, comment and features from The Independent US

Top issues to fix

7 issues found

8 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.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEO
Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEO
Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEO
Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
Accessibility
Add alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

SEO

4 issue(s) found

Performance

16 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

+1 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall: 89
SEO: 80
Security: 100
Performance: 90
Accessibility: 85

Organization

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

The Independent

Latest news, comment and features from The Independent US

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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

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: *.the-independent.com
Valid from: Jul 4, 2026
Valid to: Oct 2, 2026
Days until expiry: 62
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 · 9 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 11 · H2 100 · H3 2

Links

217 internal · 25 external · 20 broken

Images

81 total · 19 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

22 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

25.2 KB · 56.3 KB

Page size

309 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
Multiple H1 headings found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://the-independent.com
Final URL: https://www.the-independent.com/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 10 ms
HTML size: 309 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?: Hosting provider information for the-independent.com is not available yet.
What is the-independent.com's SEO score?: the-independent.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is the-independent.com's overall website score?: the-independent.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, 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
Has the-independent.com's score changed over time?: the-independent.com's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 88 to 89) since Jul 25, 2026.