theathletic.com
The Athletic - Sports news, stories, scores, schedules, podcasts, and more
Last scanned Jul 31, 2026, 8:00 PM · 7 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Unrivaled sports coverage across every team you care about and every league you follow. This website uses Next.js. SEO is fair (70/100) 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.
Top issues to fix
8 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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
2.17 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 24, 2026
- Overall
- 80
- SEO
- 70
- Security
- 95
- Performance
- 70
- Accessibility
- 90
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
- —
- 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
- DigiCert Inc
- Subject
- nytimes.com
- Valid from
- Feb 27, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 13, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 44
- 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 0 · H3 6
Links
634 internal · 10 external · 20 broken
Images
501 total · 1 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
54 scripts · 16 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
190 KB · 1.3 KB
Page size
814 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
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://theathletic.com
- Final URL
- https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 2.16 s
- HTML size
- 814 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.
- 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?
- Hosting provider information for theathletic.com is not available yet.
- What is theathletic.com's SEO score?
- theathletic.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is theathletic.com's overall website score?
- theathletic.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has theathletic.com's score changed over time?
- theathletic.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 83 to 80) since Jul 24, 2026.
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