theathletic.com
The Athletic - Sports news, stories, scores, schedules, podcasts, and more
Last scanned Jul 24, 2026, 6:27 PM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Summary
Unrivaled sports coverage across every team you care about and every league you follow. This website uses Next.js hosted on Fastly. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (95/100) and performance fair (70/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
Unrivaled sports coverage across every team you care about and every league you follow. Get breaking news, powerful stories and smart analysis from the best writers in sports.
- United States
- Hosted on Fastly
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 1 high priority
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.
6 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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
1 broken link on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
96 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Unrivaled sports coverage across every team you care about and every league you follow. Get breaking news, powerful stories and smart analysis from the best writers in sports.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Athletic - Sports news, stories, scores, schedules, podcasts, and more
- Description
- Unrivaled sports coverage across every team you care about and every league you follow. Get breaking news, powerful stories and smart analysis from the best writers in sports.
- Canonical
- https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- Fastly
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 151.101.193.164
- ASN
- AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- DigiCert Inc
- Subject
- nytimes.com
- Valid from
- Feb 27, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 13, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 51
- SAN domains
- nytimes.com, www.homedelivery.nytimes.com, *.api.dev.nytimes.com, *.api.nytimes.com, *.api.stg.nytimes.com, *.blogs.nytimes.com, *.blogs.stg.nytimes.com, *.dev.nyt.com, *.dev.nyt.net, *.dev.nytimes.com, *.newsdev.nyt.net, *.newsdev.nytimes.com, *.nyt.com, *.nyt.net, *.nytco.com, *.nytimes.com, *.payflow.sbx.nytimes.com, *.sbx.nytimes.com, *.stg.newsdev.nyt.net, *.stg.newsdev.nytimes.com, *.stg.nyt.com, *.stg.nyt.net, *.stg.nytimes.com, *.timestalks.com, nyt.com, nyt.net, nytco.com, timestalks.com, *.myaccount-preview.stg.nytimes.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 6 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 1 · H3 7
Links
369 internal · 23 external · 1 broken
Images
308 total · 1 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
64 scripts · 18 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
832 KB · 460 KB
Page size
847 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 144
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- 620
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- No H1 heading found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
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://theathletic.com
- Final URL
- https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 79 ms
- HTML size
- 847 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://theathletic.com → https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does theathletic.com use?
- theathletic.com is built with Next.js, Google Ads.
- Is theathletic.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. theathletic.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Sep 13, 2026.
- Who hosts theathletic.com?
- theathletic.com is hosted on Fastly.
- What is theathletic.com's SEO score?
- theathletic.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is theathletic.com's overall website score?
- theathletic.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is theathletic.com hiring?
- theathletic.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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