thebanner.com
The Banner: Local Maryland News, Politics, Business & More
Last scanned Aug 5, 2026, 11:00 PM · 9 views
Overall score
Fair
Summary
The Banner: Local Maryland news covering politics, business, sports & more. This website uses Drupal. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance poor (40/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
The Banner: Local Maryland news covering politics, business, sports & more. Trusted, independent journalism.
Top issues to fix
9 issues found · 3 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
Very heavy page (4.5 MB)
PerformanceCompress images (WebP/AVIF), lazy-load below-the-fold media, and trim unused JavaScript.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
+3 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
1.18 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
0 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 71
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 40
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Banner: Local Maryland news covering politics, business, sports & more. Trusted, independent journalism.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Banner: Local Maryland News, Politics, Business & More
- Description
- The Banner: Local Maryland news covering politics, business, sports & more. Trusted, independent journalism.
- Canonical
- https://www.thebanner.com/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
- https://www.thebanner.com:443/manifest.json
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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- baltimorebanner.web.arc-cdn.net
- Valid from
- Jul 14, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 12, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 67
- SAN domains
- baltimorebanner.web.arc-cdn.net, dev.baltimoreb.com, prod-playground.baltimoreb.com, sandbox.baltimoreb.com, sandbox2.baltimoreb.com, staging.baltimoreb.com, www.thebaltimorebanner.com, www.thebanner.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 75 · H3 59
Links
158 internal · 8 external · 17 broken
Images
107 total · 2 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
95 scripts · 6 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
4.3 MB · 15.6 KB
Page size
4.5 MB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://thebanner.com
- Final URL
- https://www.thebanner.com:443/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.09 s
- HTML size
- 4.5 MB
- Redirect chain
- https://thebanner.com → https://www.thebanner.com:443/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thebanner.com use?
- thebanner.com is built with Drupal, jQuery, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel.
- Is thebanner.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thebanner.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 12, 2026.
- Who hosts thebanner.com?
- Hosting provider information for thebanner.com is not available yet.
- What is thebanner.com's SEO score?
- thebanner.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is thebanner.com's overall website score?
- thebanner.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 71/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has thebanner.com's score changed over time?
- thebanner.com's overall score has stayed steady at 71/100 since Jul 26, 2026.
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